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"Mr President, we supported the accession prospects of Turkey, in the hope that it would contribute primarily to comprehensive democratic reform. The results several years later are, unfortunately, very poor. Reforms have ground to a halt and those implemented are basically dead letter. Even progress in resolving the Kurdish question, which generated a great deal of hope, appears to have stopped.
In order to accede to the Union, Turkey must demonstrate its real respect for human rights, minority rights, religious freedoms and political parties and their democratically elected representatives. The European Parliament has welcomed the democratic opening announced by the Turkish Government. However, repression of freedom of expression and the arrests of thousands of citizens and dozens of political representatives are unacceptable and destroy the credibility of any statements about continuing reforms.
Moreover, the main component of democracy is the complete division between the political and military authority. We cannot have a candidate country in which the army, even after so many years, is not subject to full political control.
Turkey’s European prospects are and must be our commitment, provided that it undertakes to promote the principles and objects of the Union in practice."@en1
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