8 Amendments of Anders VISTISEN related to 2018/2150(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Strongly condemns Turkey for its “hostage taking policy” i.e arresting the nationals of other countries to attain political and economic gains;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Strongly condemns Turkey’s officially hosting and supporting of extremist Palestinian ideologues like the prominent Hamas members Nawaf al- Takruri and Abdelfatah al-Awaisi resulting in propagating religious incitement and terrorism in the region; underlines that Hamas is labelled by the EU as a terrorist organization;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Observes that Turkey’s military interventions in northern Syria’s Jarabulus and Afrin have turned these two enclaves into Turkish military and economic protectorates resulting in a process contradicting Turkey’s official statement of 2018 supporting the territorial integrity of Syria; is concerned that Turkey also seeks to change the demographical balance in the Afrin canton by re-settling Syrian Arab Sunni refugees from Turkey to the Kurdish populated region while by doing so Turkey seeks to have a de-Kurdified southern border;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Condemns that Turkey manipulates its emigrated population in the EU to advance its domestic and foreign policy interests, such as the consolidation of the incumbent AKP's political presence by canvassing expatriate votes; is concerned that many EU Member States have a high percentage of pro-Erdogan voters;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, taking all of the above into account and in accordance with the Negotiating Framework, to formally suspend the accession negotiations with Turkey; remains, however, committed to democratic dialogue with Turkey; asks the Commission to use, during the formal suspension of negotiations, all funds available under IPA II and the future IPA III to support, through a dedicated envelope directly managed by the EU, Turkey’s civil society, and to increase opportunities for people-to-people contacts, academic dialogue, access for Turkish students to European universities and media platforms for journalistsStresses that the continued erosion of democracy in Turkey accompanied with its warming relations with authoritarian powers and intermittent antagonisms with EU and NATO Members represent the abandonment of EU aspirations with the Erdogan administration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to definitive suspend the pre-accession funds and to put a definitive end to the negotiations on the accession of Turkey to the EU;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes that a door should be left open for the modernisation and upgrading of the 1995 Customs Union between the EU and Turkey, to include relevant areas such as agriculture, services and public procurement, which currently are not covered; recalls that two thirds of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Turkey comes from EU Member States and that Turkey is an important growth market for the EU; believes that the upgrade would provide a valuable opportunity for democratic conditionality, positive leverage and the possibility of a roadmap where upgrading the Customs Union would go hand in hand with concrete commitments by Turkey on democratic reforms; believes further that the upgrading of the Customs Union would provide an important opportunity for policy dialogue on climate change as well as on labour rights in Turkey; calls on the Council and the Commission not to start preparatory work fornegotiations on the upgrading of thed Customs Union as soon as the Turkish Government indicates its readiness for serious reforbetween Turkey and the EU until Turkey has met the EU standards on human rights and fundamental freedoms;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that visa liberalisation is of great importance for Turkish citizens, particularly for students, academics, business representatives and people with family ties in EU Member States; encourages the Turkish Government to fully comply with the 72 criteria identified in the visa liberalisation roadmap; stresses that the revision of Turkey’s anti- terrorism legislation is a key condition for ensuring fundamental rights and freedoms, and that visa liberalisation will be possible once all the criteria have been metIs opposed to allow visa-free travel for the 75 million Turkish citizens as it will lead to increased migration and more security problems;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls the important role played by Turkey in responding to the migration crisis resulting from the war in Syria; takes the view that Turkey’s population has shown great hospitality by offering shelter to more than 3 million Syrian refugees; calls onConsiders that the EU-Turkey agreement is a direct result of the lax EU migration policy as European leaders have paid - and still pay - insufficient attention to the European borders, making itself susceptible to blackmail by Erdogan; takes the view that no more money may go to Turkey in the framework of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey and that the EUC and itsthe Member States to keep their promise regarding a large-scale resettlement, must do all they cand to ensure adequate financial resources for the long- term support of Syrian refugees ithat they can take care of their own business again, by sealing all the routes to Europe by applying a strong push-back policy so that they are no longer dependent on Turkey;