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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the European Commission judged in its recommendation about Turkey that that country does not sufficiently respect the political criteria of Copenhagen. A very novel and original concept was thus concocted by way of a criterion for accession to our area of freedom, security and justice. So it is that torture is allowed these days, provided that it is not carried out systematically. It follows that in the Commission’s opinion, there is no longer a fundamental human rights problem in Turkey. According to the recommendation, Turkey respects priority being given to international law, the rights of the Kurdish minority are finally respected – albeit only verbally – and the Turks finally enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms. What happens now, though? On the very same day on which the Commission qualifies Turkey as a constitutional state, the Austrian newspaper
reports that 14% of the asylum applications from Turkey are recognised, and as Reinhard Müller stated only two days ago in the
refugees are people who have fled their countries of origin out of reasonable fear of persecution. It follows that these asylum applications are either justified and human rights are still being violated in Turkey, or Erdogan is right in his cynical claim before the Council last week that organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are indeed linked to international terrorism."@en1
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