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"Mr President, the British have a phrase ‘the elephant in the room’ to describe a matter that is completely obvious but which no-one wants to recognise. In the area of breaches of human rights, the European Union has its own elephant in the room and it is called Turkey.
I raise this today because, at every Strasbourg session, we debate human rights abuses and here we are this morning debating Mr Halawa. Yet Turkey is a country which will receive EUR 3 billion to stem the migrant flow, and nothing has been demanded in relation to its human rights abuses and standards. What message does that send?
I should love to see something positive come out of our deliberations and speeches this morning, but I fear it will be more hot air and double standards. Unless we actually resolve the confusion created yesterday in terms of Turkey’s accession to the EU, we will not address the issues or the double standards that this Chamber keeps on applying to cases like that of Mr Halawa and others across Europe."@en1
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