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Ms Meryem GÖKA (Türkiye, NR)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group since 09/10/2023

In the Assembly

  • since 09/10/2023 Representative - Türkiye

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 20/04/2026)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation (since 09/12/2025)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 29/09/2025 to 19/04/2026)
  • Full Member: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 09/10/2023 to 08/12/2025)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 09/10/2023 to 28/09/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on International Protection, Integration and Support to Vulnerable Persons (since 29/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 12/10/2023 to 25/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 12/10/2023 to 28/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 12/10/2023 to 28/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Abdurrahman BABACAN (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 20/04/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Seda GÖREN (Full Member): Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Zeynep YILDIZ (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 09/10/2023 to 28/09/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Mustafa CANBEY (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 29/09/2025 to 25/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Seda GÖREN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 27/01/2026)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 12:27:43 Dear President and colleagues, We are living through a transition. The era of unipolar dominance is over, but a fair, inclusive, and institutionalised multipolar system has not yet emerged. In such an environment sovereignty and territorial integrity cannot be treated as diplomatic vocabulary, used when convenient, ignored when uncomfortable. If these principles are to mean anything, they must apply to all. What troubles us today is not only violation but normalisation … the gradual... 22/04/2026 | 11:31:20 Dear President and colleagues, I thank Ms Zita GURMAI for her report. Violence against women remains one of the gravest human rights challenges of our time. It is a global issue that requires collective responsibility. According to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, one in three women in the EU experiences violence, one in five suffers from domestic violence and only one in eight cases is reported. These figures point to a systemic failure despite long-standing commitments... 21/04/2026 | 18:17:14 Dear President and colleagues, I want to thank the rapporteur, Mr Francesco VERDUCCI, for this timely report. As someone born in Germany as part of the Turkish diaspora, I know this is not an abstract debate. It's a lived reality. We stand firmly against all forms of intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim racism and xenophobia. Freedom of religion is not optional. It is a fundamental right protected under the core international human rights instruments. Yet across Europe... 28/01/2026 | 20:11:51 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Dear President and Colleagues, We hear the word "ceasefire" repeated frequently. Can there truly be a ceasefire when children continue to die? Not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank violence continues and humanitarian access is systematically restricted. As winter sets in infants freeze to death, families are left without shelter, and life-saving assistance including emergency support from Türkiye is deliberately blocked. This is... 26/01/2026 | 17:43:20 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Dear President and Colleagues, We are living through a transition. The era of unipolar dominance is over, but a fair, inclusive, and institutionalized multipolar system has not yet emerged. In such an environment, sovereignty and territorial integrity cannot be treated as diplomatic vocabulary, used when convenient, ignored when uncomfortable. Nowhere are double standards more visible than in Gaza. Even genocide may go unpunished, when...

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