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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, it is difficult to reconcile hyper-nationalism, also known as chauvinism, with EU membership, and that is of course equally true in the case of candidate countries. Sad to say, there is one candidate country pervaded by chauvinism: that country is Turkey, which is the subject of enough controversy already. Against this current backdrop, I have two questions I would like to put to Commissioner Rehn. Is there any truth in the information, which I received from an expert last night, that the position of the Christian churches in Turkey has visibly deteriorated lately? In light of this information, the assassination of the Italian priest, Andrea Santoro, on 5 February, in the port of Trabzon is not an isolated case. An identical murder was attempted very recently in the town of Mersin and direct threats are against churches via the telephone or even in newspaper columns. Incidentally, according to the Anglican vicar Ian Sherwood, who is active in Istanbul, the Turkish elite regards the spread of Christian literature in Turkish as intellectually unacceptable, if not potentially criminal. How, Commissioner, can that be reconciled with freedom of religion in Turkey? As far as I can gather, no progress whatsoever is being made with regard to this important item of the political criteria of Copenhagen. I happened to hear last night that Trabzon is situated in what is called the valley of wolves. ‘Valley of the Wolves’ is also the title of an original Turkish film production which literally oozes chauvinism and is known to be radically anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Kurdish. It is already a huge box-office hit in Turkey and has won euphoric acclaim from Prime Minister Erdogan’s immediate and the president of the Turkish Parliament. I should like to ask the Commissioner whether he has taken Prime Minister Erdogan and Minister Gul to task over this Turkish chauvinism, which is completely incompatible with European values."@en1
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