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"Mr President, I believe myself to be entitled, as a Member of this House, to draw the Council’s attention to whatever subject I like and it is not for the President to concern himself with the content of Members’ interventions.
I do indeed think that there are sufficient fundamental reasons for putting this issue on the agenda. I would like to repeat that Turkey is not a European country politically, culturally, economically or historically speaking, and I have not even mentioned the problem of Islam, although no one would deny that the possible enlargement to include a country of 70 to 100 million Islamists threatens to fundamentally change the nature of our society.
I would urge the Council to revisit the Turkey issue as a matter of urgency, and also for internal and democratic reasons. I consider the way in which in the past few months, in all European countries, debate on Turkey’s accession has been made impossible and the way in which the verdict of the voters and citizens on this subject has been avoided, to be totalitarian and undemocratic. Our citizens are intelligent enough to decide for themselves on Turkey’s membership in a referendum. Anyone who denies them and us the right – and indeed, anyone who denies us in this House the right, let me say now – to address the Council at any time about this fundamental problem, does the European Union a disservice and brings us a step closer to a totalitarian European regime, something that we cannot tolerate under any circumstances. It is the Council’s duty to discuss this as a matter of high priority."@en1
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