Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-03-Speech-1-041"
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"Mr President, Amnesty International is an organisation with impeccable credentials, which, through its many years of hard work, has helped greatly in the fight against human rights abuses worldwide and has earned the respect of all those who care about justice, freedom and democracy. But Amnesty International has also, not unexpectedly, created a lot of enemies. One such enemy exists in Turkey. Many of Amnesty International’s reports concern Turkey and this has upset the army-controlled ‘deep state’ establishment in that country.
That establishment recently reacted aggressively once again. As you are probably well aware, it has issued, through the local authorities in Constantinople, a decision on so-called ‘illegal fundraising’ and subsequently frozen Amnesty International’s bank accounts in Turkey. This is clearly an attempt to cripple Amnesty International in that country.
I urge you to make strong representations to the Government of Turkey to make it clear that Parliament will not accept the aforementioned attack on Amnesty International, and that such attacks hinder significantly Turkey’s progress towards EU accession."@en1
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