Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-10-Speech-1-044"
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"en.20071210.15.1-044"2
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"Mr President, it is Human Rights Day today, and the world is plagued by a plethora of examples of human rights violations. Amongst these examples is that of my tiny home country, Cyprus. For 33 years, Turkish forces have occupied part of the island and kept 200 000 refugees away from their homes. For 33 years, the Turkish army has held the uninhabited town of Famagusta and uses it to blackmail the Greek Cypriot community. For 33 years, Turkish soldiers have imposed a Berlin-like division of the capital, Nicosia. And all this because the Turkish military seem to dictate Turkish policy on Cyprus.
Let us hope that Mr Erdoğan’s new government, realising how unjustifiable it is to have an EU Member State occupied by its forces, will order his Turkish Chief of Staff, Mr Büyükanıt, to withdraw his forces from the island as soon as possible."@en1
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