#ALDE: ‘Erdoğan deepens the gap between #Turkey and EU’
EU Reporter Correspondent | November 4, 2016 | 0 Comments
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament is very worried about the latest developments in Turkey following the detention of 2 leaders of the HDP Party together with other Members of the Turkish Parliament.
Commenting on this attack against democracy and rule of law in Turkey, ALDE Group leader, Guy Verhofstadt, said: “The Turkish government’s crackdown on its opponents escalated last night as the two joint leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party were detained along with at least 10 MPs, due to their unwillingness to give testimony for crimes linked to “terrorist propaganda”. Erdoğan abuses power, hiding behind the state of emergency imposed following the coup attempt in July, to hunt down his political enemies.” According to Verhofstadt, The European Union should freeze Turkey’s EU accession process if this measure comes into force and Turkey’s membership of the Council of Europe must be suspended. “Erdoğan is using the possibility of the death penalty to gain the support of the Nationalist Movement Party for the impending referendum on constitutional changes, to establish a presidential system. He is ready to sabotage Turkey’s future just to fulfil his own political goals.”
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