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"en.20030605.3.4-168"2
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"A new party surprisingly came to power in Turkey last year. Thanks to the 10 percent threshold for obtaining representation in Parliament, this party immediately won a majority, and only one other party remained, that of the more or less social democratic followers of Atatürk. The new premier, Erdogan, has been depicted as an extremist in the past and has been disenfranchised. He is now regarded as the leader of the Muslim Democrats, which is supposed to be roughly the same as Christian Democrats in other countries. You would expect a new governing party like this to take a critical view of the fact that Turkey has a considerable number of political prisoners, that parties are banned, that the army retains much power and that the very large Kurdish population group still does not have normal rights to government, education, the administration of justice, employment and media in their own language. Up to now this government has also refused to acknowledge these problems and seems not to be doing very much about them. It is therefore good that Turkey cannot enter into preliminary negotiations about EU membership without conditions, on the basis of the illusion that everything will automatically be better then. The report could have been clearer and stronger, but I support the idea that Turkey will be able to join once it has become a democracy."@en1
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