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22/11/2016
EU-Turkey relations (debate)

Madam President, MEPs are being barred from visiting fellow Turkish parliamentarians in prison, 10 from the HDP plus the seven mayors of Kurdish cities are jailed besides thousands of journalists, judges, teachers, officers, alleged to have links with the July coup. The EU should be alarmed and warn against a mass murder likely in preparation of prisoners whom Erdoğan considers linked to the Gulen Movement. Already 20 appeared to have been suicides, certainly to hide traces of torture. Already pro-government media report on mass escape plans by jailed prisoners, a convenient excuse to execute them. The EU must ditch any pretence that the accession negotiations are still possible with the repressive regime of Erdoğan in his latest crazy power grab. Let's instead, Ms Mogherini, engage and support all those brave men and women in Turkey who fight for democracy and human rights, and resist. We cannot be friends with a regime that brutally attacks the Kurds and oppresses the Turkish people.

 
 
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