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Even as we speak, a battle is being fought out in Turkey between reformists and traditionalists. The current Prime Minister and the Foreign Affairs Minister belong to the former group and deserve all our support. The debate about the opening of the negotiations has recently been fed by political opportunism, many, as my group chairman, Mr Cohn-Bendit, has said, riding on a wave of latent racism. It would be unfair to be stricter at present than the Heads of Government had agreed in December and it would also send the Turkish people the discouraging message that Europe does not actually want Turkey. Those who make negotiations conditional upon the recognition of Cyprus overlook the fact that a swift recognition of Cyprus by Turkey would spell the end of Kofi Annan’s attempts to set up a fresh round of negotiations about the island’s division. The EU must support the reformers, demand the correct implementation of the customs union and insist on the penal code being honed down further. The opening of the negotiations will send Turkey further into the direction of a secular state where people, along with international law, are respected in full and in practice. Religious minorities, Kurds and Alavites will be better off in a Turkey that forms part of the EU than in a Turkey that turns its back on our continent."@en1
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