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"Mr President, I share some of the concerns that we have heard this afternoon and earlier about human rights in Turkey. I sincerely hope that the new Turkish Government will represent a step in the right direction and not in the wrong one.
The reason that I oppose Turkey joining the European Union is that, ultimately, the free movement of workers principle would apply to Turkey. Now that principle, certainly as far as the UK is concerned, is a lopsided principle in two ways. Firstly in terms of other countries where the main language that people learn to speak first is English, so that there is a disproportionate number of people who want to come to the UK. Secondly, and in particular in the case of Turkey, we see that there is there is a disproportionate imbalance in terms of wages and the wages that can be commanded.
That kind of freedom works when you have people of broadly similar living standards and where you have broadly similar mentalities and cultures. In the case of Turkey, where we are talking about 90 million people who would have that right to free movement, I think that would certainly be, for me, very much a step too far."@en1
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