Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-13-Speech-1-146"
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"Mr President, firstly I wish to thank Mr Eurlings for having successfully completed an extremely difficult task. It is late in the debate. Most things have been said, and many wise points of view have been put forward. It is difficult to cover the whole issue in two minutes. There is no point in even trying, so I am selecting two points in the human rights sphere that are close to my heart, especially because I sit on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Firstly, rapes are committed at police stations, according to Lawyers Without Frontiers. Women dare not report the rapes because of the risk of worse treatment in the form of reprisals. The day that Turkey becomes an EU Member, it is imperative that such things no longer occur.
The other area in which I should have liked to have seen stronger wordings is that of education. In spite of the fact that hundreds of new schools have been started, there are large areas in which, because of male resistance, more than half of all girls aged between seven and thirteen are prevented from going to school and learning how to read and write. When Turkey becomes a Member, hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of pretty and young illiterate women will become citizens of an EU in which good education is crucial to a normal standard of living. Their ability to provide for themselves will be extremely limited. Women must be allowed to go to school now if, in the future, they are to be EU citizens.
There are many good reasons for Turkish membership, but it is up to us – the present Members – to keep up the pressure for reform throughout the whole negotiating process. Under those circumstances, Turkey will be very welcome."@en1
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