Democracy In Turkey (No. 2)

EDM number 1157 in 1995-96, proposed by Robert Parry on 12/07/1996.

That this House notes that despite changes in the political leadership in Turkey, the real government is the National Security Council; further notes that Turkey's appalling record of human rights abuse continues; that the National Security Council and government continue their attempts to crush any expression of Kurdish identity; that despite constitutional reform and improvements in human rights having been stipulated as conditions of entry to the Customs Union, neither has been forthcoming and that in many areas abuse of human rights has worsened; is aware that political persuasion has failed to change the policies of the Turkish regime; and believes that financial, economic and political penalties may be the only way to bringing to an end the suppression of human rights, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, torture and extra-judicial killings currently being carried out by the Turkish regime and its agents.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.