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"Mr President, I join the European Commission in welcoming Turkey’s new judicial package, which moves the country towards full alignment with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. However, I express my concern at the case this week of Mr Fazıl Say, a classical pianist and composer who was handed a ten-month suspended sentence for a comment he made regarding religion on Twitter.
This case, according to Amnesty International, sends a chilling warning to anyone using Twitter or other social media in Turkey that if you express an opinion that the authorities do not like, you could be next.
I also tabled a number of amendments in this report in relation to trade union rights. Even today, threats are being made against officers of the public sector union centre KESK, the DİSK trade union and the HAK-IŞ trade union. May Day, which is now less than two weeks away, has been a focus for confrontation in the past, especially around Taksim Square. I call on the Turkish Government to engage positively with trade unions in order to avoid confrontation.
Finally, Mr President, I stand strongly behind our Socialist-Democrat amendment for the President of the European Parliament to invite two citizens to be elected from the Turkish Cypriot community to the European Parliament as observers, following the example of the decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in this respect. I ask Members across this House to support this point in the vote tomorrow."@en1
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