Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-151"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Women in Turkey (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070212.15.1-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-12-Speech-1-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it was probably not the rapporteur’s intention, but there is actually no denying that the Bozkurt report is yet another illustration of the fact that Turkey simply does not belong in Europe. Indeed, it is wrong to think that Turkey is simply a country where a couple of things need fixing and that everything can be solved with a few new laws and rules or with the absorption of some tens of thousands of pages of whereupon a new European Member State is allegedly created. This is absurd. First of all, Europeans are people who live within a very specific geographical European framework, and that framework does not include Turkey. In addition, Europeans are also people who form part of a very defined community of law and a community of values, which comprises, among others, gender equality. Other areas that play a role are culture, mentality and even religion, when this religion, as is the case with Islam, is not restricted to internal perception but wants to impose its outdated and, in many cases, totally reprehensible rules on the whole of the community. Returning to the subject of this report, I would say that Turkey is without a doubt the most modern Islamic country, but it remains, where women's rights are concerned, a backwater. Indeed, it is an Islamic country, where women are deemed inferior, something which will not improve as Islamicisation gains ground; quite the reverse. Let us therefore stop treating the symptoms, rather than the cause, which is the fact that Turkey may well be a neighbouring country, but can never become a European one."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph