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    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REPORT CRITICAL OF TURKEY

    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    Aug 5 2006

    The report was also damning in its condemnation of the terrorist
    group the PKK, which has stepped up its activities targeting Turkey.

    Guncelleme: 21:36 TSÝ 05 Eylul 2006 SalýSTRASBOURG - The European
    Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs has adopted a report
    prepared by Christian Democrat MEP Camiel Eurlings that criticises
    Turkey's slow pace of implementing reforms as part of its European
    Union accession process.

    In a vote held Monday evening, 52 committee members voted in favour
    of accepting the report, while six voted against and eight abstained.

    A general session of the European parliament will vote on the report
    sometime between September 25 and 28.

    The report said that Turkey has slowed down its program of putting
    in place reforms required by the EU as part of its membership process.

    It also called on Turkey to recognise the so called genocide committed
    by the Ottoman Empire against its Armenian citizens. The report
    also claimed that Turkey committed genocide against Pontus Greeks
    and Syrians.

    The slow pace of enacting reforms strengthening human rights, freedoms
    of expressions, and religious rights for minorities was also cited
    in the report.

    --Boundary_(ID_YGJpizyXdYfWaA6LpVdSww)--
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