Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-13-Speech-2-257"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Search made of the Ankara headquarters of the Human Rights Association of Turkey2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030513.11.2-257"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-13-Speech-2-2582
lpv:speaker	lp:Joost Lagendijk2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-02-26--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as regards the raid on the human rights association IHD itself I can be brief. One reason why my group also condemns it in the strongest possible terms is that it is totally inconsistent with the reforms that are designed to bring Turkey closer to the EU. But what I find more interesting is the background against which this raid took place. Mr Ceyhun has already spoken about it and I endorse what he had to say. I am convinced that there is a struggle going on not only in public, but also – and in particular – behind the scenes at the moment, between on the one hand the reformers, the new government, the new Parliament, many human rights organisations and other reformers and on the other the conservatives, who are still very strongly represented, in the army, in the bureaucracy, and also in the judiciary. Fellow Members, it is no coincidence that on the very day that this human rights association was invited to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for discussions on Turkey’s new strategy with a view to accession, the conservatives respond by breaking into the association’s offices. Nor is it any coincidence that this happens by way of the state security courts – a bastion of conservatism in the Turkish legal system. That is, as far as I am concerned, also a reason to call on the Turkish Government again to press ahead with the abolition of these state security courts – which has already been announced – because they are once again the source of much misery. If there is a struggle between the conservatives on the one hand and the reformers on the other, then I am convinced that it is the task of Parliament to support the reformers. I therefore contest the analysis of Turkish affairs that is heard in this House from some of our Members, that is that it never was anything, it is nothing and it never will be anything. That is not the situation. Look for example at the reactions of Mr Gül, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr Cicek, the Minister of Justice. They are ashamed of what happened in this raid and new measures have again been announced to make this impossible in the future. It is the role of our Parliament to be critical if things go wrong in Turkey, that is what we are doing this evening, that is what we shall be doing in the Oostlander report, but it is also the task of the Parliament to support reformers and reforms so that raids of this kind become a thing of the past."@en1

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