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"Mr President, as the Oomen-Ruijten report points out, Turkey has already made significant progress, but still has a way to go towards guaranteeing human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The new constitution should enshrine the core values and principles of the European Union, ensuring a genuine separation of powers, civilian control over the military, and an inclusive definition of Turkish citizenship that fully respects the rights of minorities, particularly Kurds, and the majority, who are women.
Freedom of expression and of the press are crucial to guaranteeing other human rights and democracy. Intellectuals, journalists and human rights activists are still being imprisoned. Turkey urgently needs to revise its perverse criminal and antiterrorist laws, to stop using special courts against members of the opposition, and to ensure the independence of the courts.
How Turkey acts during the upcoming six-month Cypriot Presidency of the European Union will not just test the European Union: it will put to the test Turkey’s understanding of what it means to belong to this Union; of what it means to build a European Union."@en1
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