Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-21-Speech-3-081"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-05-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Turkey's 2007 progress report (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080521.4.3-081"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-05-21-Speech-3-0822
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques Toubon2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3,3 member; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3,3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; JURI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the report by our colleague Ria Oomen-Ruijten is thorough, honest and courageous at a very testing time for Turkey, and I wish to congratulate her on this. The report, however, forms part of a genre that I feel is becoming increasingly unreal. Parliament and many other institutions are carrying on with their pretences, as though our tireless teachings can change Turkey. This, in fact, is the crux of the matter: the contradiction between this country, this nation, this great people, its evolution and the project we wish to operate together. Turkey is a nation-state, one of the last of its kind, one of the strongest and one of the most aware. Its unity is a nationalist unity, and this is clearly discernable in relation to the acknowledgement of genocide in Armenia. Its policy is increasingly inspired by a single religion even as it backs away from the secular aspects that form the very basis of its constitution. It manifests its desire for independence, while here we wish to implement a principle of integration and delegation of powers and sovereignty. This is nothing other than a head-on collision between both parties. Let us be under no illusions, let us refrain from telling the Turks anything and everything, and having them believe we are willing either to accept their accession without actually meeting the Copenhagen criteria, or reject it because of them, when what is actually at stake is us, and what we want our European project to be. Furthermore, let us define a durable partnership structure that uses a win-win approach to allow Turkey to take up its role as a regional power, and the EU to continue the construction of its world identity."@en1

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