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"The Morillon report on Turkey’s accession to the European Union serves, above all, to remind the Turkish Government that it must open up the Turkish market to European capital by carrying out ‘structural reforms’ ranging from ‘dismantling state subsidies to reorganising pensions and accelerating privatisation’: in other words, by reducing social budgets and by making the living conditions of the most destitute sections of the population even worse.
As far as human rights are concerned, however, the report confines itself to ‘encouraging the Turkish Government’, ‘calling’ on it to do better, without European countries ever threatening it, even if only to stop delivering arms. The truth is that neither the rapporteur nor European governments want to offend the military who, in reality, govern Turkey and reduce a section of the country to a state of emergency. European governments do not want to offend Turkish reactionaries who refuse to abolish the death penalty and trample women’s rights underfoot. Nor do they want to offend the Turkish authorities who now oppress the Kurdish people after having already massacred the Armenian population.
Let those who are interested only in the movement of capital and goods and not life and human rights vote for this report. We voted against it."@en1
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