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As a Member of this House, I have belonged to the parliamentary friendship group with Turkey for as long as it has existed. No one, therefore, can accuse me of not being well-disposed towards Turkey.
As things stand, however, I feel I am justified in asking whether all the conditions – especially as regards human rights – have genuinely been fulfilled. I gladly acknowledge that on the issue of women's rights, for example, more reforms have been introduced since Turkey was granted the prospect of accession than in the decades before. Nonetheless, they have largely taken place on paper; the reality still lags behind. I was recently confronted with information alleging that sterilisations of Kurdish women have been carried out in Turkey.
When we signed an Association Agreement with Turkey in 1963, which offered the prospect of membership, the European Union did not exist; at that time, we were still the European Economic Community. Since a customs union with Turkey has existed since 1996, what we have now is very similar to an economic community in which any remaining trade barriers can be dismantled swiftly.
From this perspective too, and because there is no question that Turkey must remain fully anchored in European structures, the option of a tailor-made special status instead of the discriminatory membership deal proposed by the Commission would appear to be a more accessible and honourable path for Turkey, aside from the fact that there are justified doubts …"@en1
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