Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-13-Speech-2-261"
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"Mr President, the Turkish legal system is based on the idea that collective order and security very definitely take precedence over individual human rights. I am very well aware of the views of the Ankara public prosecutor. I have heard terms of this kind from his own lips; no wonder, then, that in such a system a raid on the human rights bureau in Ankara should be seen by the perpetrators as normal. That is how life is lived there. The Minister for Justice has expressed regret for the raid, and that is, of course, all very fine and good, but the problem is whether he actually has the power over the public prosecutor to prevent the latter simply carrying on without further ado.
Is this not once again the so-called deep state, with its generals and pashas, that rumbles through everything, as it did with the attempts of Prime Minister Erdogan to find a solution to the Cyprus problem, the restoration of the ban on HADEP and the continuing detention of Mrs Zana who, as a Sakharov prizewinner, has very special symbolic value for us? Such behaviour amounts to downright defiance of the norms and values of the European Union.
The views of the deep state on good administration differ markedly from those in the European Union. Successive examples of this can be found in every embassy of Member States. Mr Ceyhun points out that it is the opponents of the European Union in Turkey who are in favour of such damaging acts. I do not believe that there are people in Turkey, and certainly not amongst the pashas and the generals, who do not want to join the European Union. This is because there is status and all kinds of other benefits attached to it. They do want to join, but they want Turkey to join the European Union on their terms. This we must prevent at all costs and make clear to the citizens and to every person of goodwill in Turkey that we do not want that.
I think that it must also be made clear to the Turkish public where we stand, that there are conditions attached to accession and that whenever there is a violation it will be said over and over again that we do not accept that, so that the deep state knows that in the European Union there is no future for its way of thinking and acting. I hope that Commissioner Verheugen can make this visible in Turkey too, possibly through measures relating to the support for human rights organisations in that country."@en1
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