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"en.20141217.64.3-622-000"2
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"Mr President, I add my voice of support to the widespread condemnation of the attitude of Turkey towards imprisoning journalists and, like many, abhor this blatant attempt to curb freedom of expression.
President and his AKP Party, one of whose members recently called for a ban on women being able to laugh in the street are, of course, allied to the British Conservatives. is undermining the secular identity of the Turkish State to the extent that Kemal Atatürk must now be turning in his grave. However, what I find really confusing is the fact that in my country it is only UKIP that opposes Turkish entry into the EU. The idea that the free movement of 83 million Turkish citizens will not impact on an already pestiferous immigration debate in my country is clearly lost on the British Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democratic parties.
EU membership would allow unemployed people in Turkey to travel freely to and seek work in any other Member State. With an official figure of 2.98 million unemployed, unofficial estimates as high as 5.5 million, any flow of migration would inevitably be towards job-creating economies such as the UK. Turkey is currently home to some 1.6 million refugees – many from Syria and Iraq. As a new Member State she might well become a new gateway to Europe for an unprecedented number of refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East. As a Member State there would be very little possibility of stopping these refugees from moving freely within a passportless Europe. The Prime Minister’s pledge on Turkey joining the EU quite frankly needs stopping.
It only leaves me to wish my colleagues, irrespective of our differences, a happy Hanukkah and a merry Christmas and a happy New Year."@en1
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