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"Mr President, I have spoken many times in this Chamber about Turkey and the problems relating to it. I see that colleagues are trying to list all the violations. However, they are so many of them that there is simply no way that they could be listed.
Turkey violates so many of the fundamental principles of democracy and human rights that last week a colleague highly respected by all of us, José Bové, from the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, together with another three members, sent and asked me to sign a letter to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, which requests the suspension of Turkey’s membership of the Council of Europe. So why, given that there is such an initiative from this Parliament, are we sitting and discussing its membership of the EU?
The Council of Europe is a much more liberal institution than the European Union. Lastly, I will turn to the citizens of Europe and ask them: Citizens of Europe, do you agree to there being a country in the European Union that has committed several genocides for which not only has it not apologised, but of which it is also proud?"@en1
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