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"Mr President, let me focus on the positive aspects first. We have intensified our confrontation course on human rights issues – which is directed against the Turkish Government, not the Turkish people – by calling for rights and freedoms for the Kurds and for the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians to be acknowledged and properly examined.
Another positive point is that we have not demanded Turkey's accession, but merely the opening of accession negotiations, which I voted against. Given that the Members who are in favour of accession negotiations include many who are ultimately opposed to accession, we appear to be on the right track. We were in the minority at first, but our course is now endorsed by the largest group in this House, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, and we just need another 40 Members to adopt a clear position over the coming years. There will then be no majority in this House in favour of Turkey's accession to the European Union when we finally take a binding vote on this issue.
That apart, it is a matter for the PPE-DE Heads of Government, at the Brussels summit in two days' time, to stop the onward surge of the lemmings, which inevitably ends in disaster."@en1
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