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We are in favour of Turkey’s being granted financial instruments and financial aid in proportion to its size and to its needs on the same basis as the other candidate countries. This particularly concerns the restructuring of agriculture, raising the profile of the rural environment and environmental protection.
Any discriminatory action in this respect would penalise not the leadership of the authoritarian Turkish Government but the workers of that country. It would do nothing to support proper conditions for the necessary fight to impose respect for basic democratic rights, quite the opposite.
The best way for the European Union to force the Turkish Government to meet its commitments, a method which is lacking in hypocrisy and which does not allow a pretext for further liberal pressure, which only in any case serve the interests of free trade in Europe, would be to support the democratic opposition. The initiatives by militants working for human rights, trade unionists and politicians may, if they are given sufficient funding to mobilise public opinion, make it possible to put an end to a regime which murders the Kurds, causes political prisoners to ‘disappear’, restricts the movements of detainees, tortures democrats and lets Öçalan stagnate on death row."@en1
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