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"en.20120329.36.4-260-000"2
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"Madam President, a Turk watching the debate on this report would get a very partial and imperfect view of the real opinions of this Chamber. People say one thing when they are speaking on the record and they say a very different thing when chatting in the corridors. The real objection that a number of Members have to Turkish accession is based on numbers and based on voting weights. The last thing that committed euro federalists want is the admission of a populous, proud and patriotic Muslim country but, rather than saying that, we have played this game where we have enticed Turkey with a promise that we have no intention of fulfilling. In treating them in this way, we risk creating the very thing which we purport to fear, namely, an alienated and anti-Western state on our doorstep.
Turks are as entitled to their dignity as any other people. We have asked them in the past to safeguard Europe’s flank against the Bolshevist tyranny; we may one day ask them to do the same against the Islamic hegemony and the Islamist Jihadi hegemony. I think that they deserve better than the way they have been treated."@en1
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