8 Amendments of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2016/2308(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines, however, that measures taken under the state of emergency had large-scale, disproportionate and long- lasting negative effects on the protection of fundamental freedoms in the country; condemns the collective dismissal of civil servants, the mass liquidation of media outlets, the arrests of journalists, academics, judges, human rights defenders, elected officials and ordinary citizens (over 48 000 according to recent Ministry of Justice figures), and the confiscation of property and passports on the basis of emergency decree laws without individualised decisions, and without the possibility of timely judicial review;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to suspend the accession talks with Turkey, as well as the talks on the customs agreement, if the constitutional package is implemented unchanged and as long as the current breaches of the rule of law continue unchecked;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that measures undertaken following the declaration of the state of emergency have targeted not only alleged members/supporters of the Gülen movement, but dissent in general and political parties of the opposition in particular; strongly condemns the imprisonment of 13 MPs belonging to the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-chairs, and of 90 Kurdish municipal mayors; urges the Turkish Government to free those people without delay and restore them to the offices to which they were elected under universal suffrage, and to lift the state of emergency immediately; underlines that the reintroduction of the death penalty would violate Turkey’s international commitments, jeopardise its membership of the Council of Europe and lead to an immediate end to the EU accession talks;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Is concerned by the increasingly frequent allegations of torture, in particular in prisons, and calls for the immediate publication of the latest reports by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)1a;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new)
(1) Condemns the adoption of the 2016 law on the legal protection of security forces involved in counter- terrorism operations, the terms of which have given rise to fears that it could be a way of fostering impunity;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Is disturbed at ONG reports highlighting the growing number of refugee children working under illegal conditions in Turkish businesses; also stresses that it is essential to prevent the death of migrants at sea not just by developing legal and safe access routes for migrants and asylum seekers, but also by ensuring that the Turkish authorities genuinely act to combat the people smugglers and traffickers in Turkey whose methods include corrupting the security forces; regrets that the joint EU- Turkey action plan on refugees and migration management takes no account of the reality of the situation for migrants and refugees in Turkey and is based on a purely repressive approach; stresses in this context that cooperation on migration should not be used as a bargaining chip or be conditional solely on reinforced border controls or the accession process, but should also take into account the interests of migrants and asylum seekers and the recognition of their rights;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Condemns strongly the recent statements by President Erdogan accusing some EU leaders of ‘Nazi practices’ and warns that the continuation of such unwarranted statements undermines Turkey’s credibility as a political partner; notes with concern the reports of alleged pressure on members of the Turkish diaspora living in the Member States, and condemns the Turkish authorities’ surveillance of citizens with dual nationality living abroad; is concerned at the revocation of a large number of passports, leaving people stateless in contravention of the UN's 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and its 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;