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In fact, Turkey is drawing up a draft amendment of the law on political parties. However, the truth is that we do not know the exact content of this draft law because it has yet to be submitted to the Turkish Government. We therefore only have references.
The Council is not aware, even from these references, that the activities of the Turkish Communist Party are being hindered nor that there is any threat to ban it on the basis of an obsolete provision of the former law on political parties.
In terms of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Turkey more generally, the Laeken European Council concluded that Turkey had made progress towards complying with the criteria set for accession, particular by recently amending its Constitution, and that there was therefore now more possibility of opening accession negotiations with that country. Turkey is being encouraged to make more progress towards compliance with the accession criteria – the famous Copenhagen criteria – particularly in relation to human rights.
The Council is closely monitoring the efforts for institutional political reform currently being made by Turkey and is especially focussing on whether those reforms will lead to real improvements in relation to human rights and fundamental freedoms in that country.
As we all know, this situation is still highly unsatisfactory in many respects.
The Council will be sure to question Turkey in the event that the intended amendment of the law on political parties in any way threatens democratic freedoms."@en1
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