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"en.20120329.36.4-355-500"2
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"Despite the multiple contradictions of the process, Turkey’s EU accession clearly serves the geostrategic interests of big business in the major EU powers. The ultimate goal is controlling the Turkish economy and making use of its geostrategic location in relation to the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia, particularly to access and control those regions’ energy sources and markets. This resolution’s recognition of EU-Turkey interdependence and its ‘significant role for regional stability and energy security’ demonstrates this aim. Turkey is a NATO member and a major player in the region, as demonstrated by the role it is playing in destabilising Syria and in the internal conflict that is still being supported from outside the country’s borders. However, the resolution downplays or ignores the repression of workers, trade unionists and those on the left. The convenient ambiguity about Cyprus is retained, masking the fact that Turkey has taken no steps towards solving the Cyprus problem. Turkey is still occupying the north of the island militarily and settling Turkish citizens there so as to change its demographic balance, in breach of UN resolutions"@en1
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