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"en.20110309.19.3-304-000"2
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"For the fifth consecutive year, Turkey has failed to comply with Europe’s requests. There has been a growth in fundamentalist movements, which the government does not combat due to its nationalist and Islamist political views.
The status of religious Christian minorities and of women has been deteriorating for years. Turkey does not therefore wish to come into line with Western democratic standards; it has chosen a pathway of re-Islamification, which will lead it ever further away from accession. A country that aims to take a leading role in the Arab-Muslim world with an aggressive foreign policy towards the West and Israel is a country that demonstrates for itself the reasons why my group has long opposed those who would like to see Turkey become a Member State.
Whilst, on the one hand, the report sheds light on many problematic aspects that have emerged in recent years, it also applauds the ‘progress’ that the Turkish Government has made in some areas. Essentially, the report holds the doors to Europe wide open for Ankara, which is why I voted against it. Turkey is not Europe and never will be, either in cultural or political terms. The backward steps made by Turkey ought to convince even its most enthusiastic supporters to give up on the idea that this country should join the European project."@en1
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