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"Mr President, although Turkey has already implemented legislation on women’s rights, in reality, considerable discrimination persists, especially in rural areas. In recognising Turkey’s progress in encouraging women’s involvement in social, economic and political life, the rapporteur also has criticisms to make. Despite this, she urges the Turkish Government to improve and to do everything it can to ensure that all targets are met with a view to Turkey’s accession to the European Union. I am voting firmly against this report because I believe that a third country cannot even contemplate joining the European Union when it not only fails to respect religious freedoms and citizens’ fundamental rights, but is even conducting a military occupation of northern Cyprus, which is part of the Union. As for religious rights, I note that the Catholic Church is forbidden from training clergy within the Turkish State; hence, seminaries and Catholic training institutes cannot be opened. If this is democracy …!"@en1
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