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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Turkey2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000411.9.2-250"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-11-Speech-2-2512
lpv:speaker	lp:Ursula Stenzel2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Österreichische Volkspartei (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Turkey was granted candidate status at the Helsinki Summit, but accession negotiations must go on hold until the necessary internal reforms have been introduced and the human rights situation complies with European principles. During your recent visit to Ankara, Commissioner Verheugen, you too drew attention to the fact that continuing human rights abuses, the failure to establish rule of law and the fact that no solution had been found to the Kurdish question stood in the way of Turkey’s accession to the EU in the near future. The unequivocal shortcomings in this area contrast with statements by Prime Minister Ecevit to the effect that Turkey may be ready to start accession negotiations in 2004. A number of factors which have been listed here several times already make this sort of prognosis appear premature. Even the fact that the head of government, Mr Ecevit, described Kurdish as a dialect of Turkish, despite the fact that the two languages have fundamentally different roots, is an indication of the hardening of the political situation in Turkey. The fact that all this has been accompanied by a recent offensive against the PKK in northern Iraq only adds to this impression. There can be no question of the European Union having any interest in increasing Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey or of wanting to encourage the Trotskyist PKK, which is also guilty of massive human rights violations, to engage in new clashes. However, one has the impression that anti-European forces within the army and the administration are behind the recent arrests and the new offensive against the PKK in northern Iraq in order to prevent Turkey from moving closer to Europe. This demonstrates in retrospect that the concessions made to Turkey in Helsinki were perhaps premature and that the strategy towards this country, which is so important to western security, needs to be reviewed."@en1

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