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"Mr President, I consider that Turkey has to begin making the necessary steps to be acceptable to join the EU. For this purpose, certain conditions must without fail be met, one of the most important of which is the recognition of Turkey's internal plurality. Breaking the fundamental Kemalist taboo is of vital importance. Recognising the linguistic, cultural and political rights of Kurdistan and other stateless national communities is crucial.
Logically we Europeans want Turkey to comply with all of that, but we wonder whether we should not start by recognising our own intrinsic plurality. What about all the pluri-national states that keep denying their own diversity? In the particular case of Spain – a state that in theory acknowledges its own domestic plurality, but not always equality among all the different nations that make up that state – still more steps have to be taken.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Spanish Government, Mr Miguel Angel Moratinos, presented a memorandum on 13 December on the official languages of the autonomous communities. Such a proposal does not imply, as we wanted, full recognition status for Catalan, Basque and Galician. It does not give any recognition to Asturian or Aragonese. This memorandum offers the chance of speaking in the European Parliament in Catalan, but always at 15 days' notice. How can I handle this if I do not know until the day before if I am to be given the chance to speak?
When your Member States' governments sincerely acknowledge their plurality, that will be the most powerful tool in working towards a more democratic Turkey, and in asking for a fundamental change to the way in which it is applying to join the European Union."@en1
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