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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, the continued consolidation of democracy and respect for human rights in Turkey, which should lead to full membership of our European Union, becomes even more important as Arab and Middle Eastern countries just beyond Europe’s borders stand in crisis. We should welcome the fact that momentum has returned to the reform process in Turkey and, recognising the controversies of last September’s referendum, call for it to be a platform for fundamental constitutional reform with all-party support in the future. I warmly endorse Commissioner Füle’s work in this respect and his uncompromising words this afternoon on freedom of expression, particularly as I, with fellow European representatives, were prevented from acting as legal observers to the KCK cases in the Diyarbakir court only last month. But I also ask the Commissioner to make progress on the visa issue, particularly for businesspeople, and on holding Turkey to its promises for the draft trade union law. Our Socialist and Democrat Group believes that the accession talks are threatened, not by a train crash, but by death through strangulation. No new chapter has been opened for eight months, the longest period since the talks were first launched. We will vote tomorrow for the opening of the chapters on fundamental rights and judiciary and on the common foreign and security policy, not because we want to be weak on these issues, but because we want to be strong. We do not do so because we want to alter the pressure on all sides to achieve reconciliation on the island of Cyprus. Just as momentum is needed in the reform process for Turkey, momentum is needed in its membership talks with the European Union too."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt,"1 "on behalf of the S&D Group."1
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