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"Mr President, I fully support the point made by Mrs Oomen-Ruijten about making the progress report available in Turkish. That would have been automatic if Turkish had become an official language, as it should have done in 2004 upon the accession of Cyprus.
I strongly welcome this debate. Some of us have tried for many years to put the Kurdish issue in Turkey on the EU agenda. All the EU institutions, not just Parliament, must now give strong political diplomatic and economic support to the dialogue leading to a negotiated solution which allows Kurds, with their language, to be fully recognised and integrated as citizens of the Turkish state. The Commission, High Representative and Council cannot tread any longer around the issues of this matter because it connects so closely with the issues we constantly raise with Turkey: a new constitutional settlement, democratic and journalistic freedoms, the rule of law, the proper role of the army and so on. Solving the Kurdish question is the major key to a stable democratic Turkey at ease with diversity. The EU should press both sides to abandon the military struggle and talk politics."@en1
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