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A week before the possible opening of negotiations with Turkey on EU membership, there is little cause for optimism. Its development towards being a normal country in which all ethnic groups, all political opinions and all religious faiths are considered equal is stagnating. Last week, a court banned a conference on the mass murder of the Armenian people in 1915, which had been denied for many years. The large Kurdish community in the South-East still has no prospects of education, administration and media in their own language, of normal representation in the national parliament or of regional self-government. Prominent forces in Turkey reject further concessions to European wishes and even hold out the threat of Turkey’s membership application being withdrawn.
Over the last few weeks, interest in the situation in Turkey seems to have shifted to the country’s relationship with Cyprus. It is unacceptable that ships from southern Cyprus should still be barred from Turkish ports, while Turkey claims that it has observed all agreements since as long ago as 2004. This does not augur well for other areas of discussion. As an EU Member State, Cyprus has the right to veto negotiations and membership. The disadvantaged groups within Turkey do not have such influence. That is why this House should especially take their problems and interests to heart."@en1
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