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"Mr President, the report being debated, while recognising many of the problems faced by Turkey and its people in all sectors and quoting specific examples of blatant violations of fundamental rights, curiously finds at the same time, as Messrs Oostlander and Verheugen have repeated again today, that important, encouraging steps have been made. That is how it describes certain individual amendments to the legislative framework, which are not even applied in practice, despite the intentions expressed from time to time by those in government.
The report even finds that the present government is acutely keen to make revolutionary reforms in all sectors. However, these findings are a surprise, given that it is not the first time that the Turkish government of the day has expressed such intentions, which are blatantly refuted in daily practice. Indeed, persecutions, arbitrary arrests and torture to the death for political reasons continue. The gaols are full of thousands of political prisoners, including Leyla Zana and three members of parliament of Kurdish extraction who, after ten years in prison, are to undergo another fixed trial.
The Constitutional Court has upheld the ban on the communist party. The Dehap is threatened with a new ban, while its leaders are being tried and defenders of human rights are being persecuted and murdered. Grass-roots movements campaigning for peace, democracy and workers' rights are being hounded and the army continues to rule in the political and social life of the country. As if that were not enough, the report calls for Turkey to receive greater backing in its fight against terrorism, ignoring the fact that it is the prime terrorist in its area.
As far as the Cyprus problem is concerned, the report considers it constructive that Turkey aims to safeguard as
the results of the barbaric invasion and occupation, about which the report says not a word. On the contrary, it supports the Annan plan which, in essence, tramples over the UN resolutions and international law in general, legalising the results of the invasion and occupation. The report calls coercively on the Cyprus Government to accept it, as did Messrs Oostlander, Verheugen and others today, proving how hypocritical their proclamations are about respect for international law. The report is driven by a spirit of imposing the sovereignty of the European Union in all sectors and a spirit of serving its big business.
That is why we MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece shall be voting against the report, taking account of the experience of the Greek people, with feelings of solidarity with the people of Turkey, and considering that the negative elements of the integration procedure and integration itself will far outweigh any individual benefits to them."@en1
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