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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-03-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2010 progress report on Turkey (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110308.26.2-516-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-03-08-Speech-2-517-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Hélène Flautre2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Europe Écologie (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Oomen-Ruijten for her work in providing rigorously detailed documentation and in drawing up a report in the utmost good faith with the aim of sending clear political messages, particularly on the eve of the legislative elections in Turkey, and I endorse this work. This report – unlike you, Minister, but that is understandable – stresses freedom of expression and freedom of the media. Unfortunately, this is obviously very necessary and current events serve to remind us of this with the recent arrests of the journalists Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şik in the context of the enquiries into Ergenekon and Sledgehammer. I tabled an amendment on this subject and I would invite you to support this work to put our Parliament in a position to exercise the greatest vigilance it can over this crucial issue of the freedom of the press, which also affects the question of the independence of the judiciary and the drawing up of the new constitution. However, I would ask you the following political question: when we observe the stranglehold on the process of accession and the standstill on those chapters that are crucial if we want to make progress on issues of fundamental freedoms, the independence of the judiciary and the new constitution, is it not the case that our decision and that of the Council to punish by closing chapters, and the impossibility of opening and closing chapters, are today totally counterproductive factors? There is no sense in the European Union depriving itself of one of the main levers for action in Turkey, that is to say, negotiations – in particular, on chapters 22, 23 and 24 – and I would wish to ask the Council to examine this situation once again because, obviously, it looks today as if the accession process has been taken hostage with these sanctions which, at the end of the day, can only have an effect if the accession process remains on the burner. Now, everyone can see that it is not. We therefore find ourselves in an extremely worrying political situation at a time when Turkey is seen by all the countries to the south of the Mediterranean as a source of inspiration for their own democratic transition. I am not asking for there to be a decision on Turkey’s accession. I am asking for the decisions that we take at all levels to be absolutely consistent with the reliability, credibility, seriousness and loyalty of our process of negotiation. Today, this is very clearly in question."@en1
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