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"Madam President, people in Islamic countries today are doing something rather similar to the Turkish people’s ousting of the single-party dictatorship in 1950. As Egypt, like Turkey, may yet discover, overthrowing the deep state is much harder and that is why the Ergenekon case and similar investigations are so important.
Liberals in this House wish Mr Erdoğan and his government every success in creating a true democracy and anchoring it in our European club of democratic nations. The customs union has been a great success and Turkey’s membership of the European Union can be equally successful.
We regret the stalling of the accession process and, while Turkey must bear part of the blame, the bad faith of certain Member States – as revealed by WikiLeaks – is an embarrassment to our Union. Mr Sarkozy no more speaks for Europe on Turkey than he does on his Union for the Mediterranean. His visit to Ankara was inflammatory, and it is a pity that German Christian Democrats do not take Max Fischer’s advice and look in the mirror, because the AKP today is the mirror image of the German CDU in 1950 – not Christian Democrat, but Islamic Democrat – and that is no doubt why the Commissioner says that he understands and shares Turkey’s frustrations.
This report is honest – too honest for some. Turkey has much to achieve, but we have much to lose if we do not welcome and work with Islamic democracies like Turkey and Indonesia."@en1
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