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"Mr President, there is no Turkish part of Cyprus, just as there is no Greek part of Cyprus. There is only one Cyprus: the Republic of Cyprus, which is internationally recognised.
Some of us consider that starting accession negotiations with a country that does not recognise one of our Member States, continues to occupy part of EU territory and has an abysmal human rights record is totally nonsensical. Equally, the idea that Turkey must join the EU in order to be transformed is incomprehensible. By the same argument, we should get Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nepal and many other not-so-democratic countries to join the EU. A woman does not get married to her rapist in order to reform him. She stays well away from him and hopes he is put in prison for a long time. Let us stop behaving like a subordinate of the United States. If Mr Bush, in his plentiful wisdom, thinks that Turkey is so great, let him have it join his own country!
Trying to get Turkey to become an EU Member is turning from a bad joke into a nightmare, and our citizens, who will pay dearly for our mistakes, realise this much better than we think they do. Let us stop insulting their intelligence. Turkey is an undemocratic, highly aggressive and super-problematic country and is light years away from European standards and values. Let us not turn 3 October into a black Monday for Europe, and let us vote against accession."@en1
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