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"Ms Bozkurt’s report is very enlightening. Indeed, in paragraph 68, it admits that Turkey has still not fulfilled the Copenhagen criteria, which, we have been told over and over again, were essential prerequisites to opening any accession negotiations with any country. Seven years on, it is high time we were concerned. As regards the situation for women in Turkey, whether or not the report is correct, we have shown a great deal of arrogance and hypocrisy. We endlessly repeat our humiliating demands to Turkey, as if accession will no longer be a problem once those demands are met.
People’s mentality cannot be changed with laws. We will not magically turn the Turkish people into perfect little atheist, individualistic and materialistic Westerners by means of texts. What is more, the desire to do so comes from a sovereign contempt for foreign cultures, traditions and civilisations. That is the whole contradiction of the dominant way of thinking here."@en1
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