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"The process of accession negotiations between Turkey and the EU is suffering, not because of the crisis, but because the Turkish authorities are dragging their feet with regard to respect for universal values, which are fundamental to the European Union. Of course, Turkey is a major country with an important strategic role for Europe. We need only highlight its unfailing contributions to NATO and the fact that it is an EU energy corridor for Caucasian and Caspian oil and gas resources. This geostrategic dimension, important though it may be, must not make us want to forget the frequent breaches of respect for the rights of women and minorities. To this we can now add unacceptable anti-Semitic provocations. The advert that was recently broadcast on Turkish television where Hitler extols the virtues of a shampoo ‘for real men’ is the most recent example of this. How is it possible that we still do not have the sense to dare to suggest the credible alternative of a privileged partnership? This would at least have the merit of being clear and responding to the concerns expressed by the majority of European citizens who are worried about possible future ill-prepared accessions, and the absorption capacity of the EU following the waves of accessions in 2004 and 2007."@en1
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