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"Mr President, the report we are debating today tells us that Turkey is not ready to join the European Union and participate in a system of values of Christian origin, and that it does not wish to be ready. I propose that accession negotiations with the country, which are due to start in three months’ time, should not be opened, if only because women’s rights are not respected in Turkey. This is only one of many reasons, the most important of which are cultural differences.
I propose that negotiations should be opened when Turkey becomes similar to Europe, which is likely to be never. We do not have the right to demand of Turkey that it abandons its own civilisation and its own system of values, as well as its own religion, since religion is at the root of every civilisation.
Are women in Turkey really subject to discrimination? Are they discriminated against more today than in the past? Perhaps Turkey simply has different standards and cultural models that cannot be translated into the European model of behaviour. It may even be the case that the increase in violence against women is an expression of the fear and aversion of traditional Turkish society towards European integration.
The Turkish people will not be able to respect us Europeans, who have been brought up in a different spirit and within a different value system, if they cannot respect their own women and national minorities."@en1
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