22/04/2021 | 12:49:32 Mr Chairman, the wording of this amendment is only about PKK. It is not about any political party, any leadership, any person. PKK is recognised as a terrorist organisation by the courts. Sorry, it's Amendment 1. Yes. Chairman, as I explained, this is a serious allegation against the judicial authority. It is not real. I think, it should be deleted because in the course of the Monitoring Committee probably the rapporteurs and other officials of the Assembly will meet the prosecutor general... 22/04/2021 | 12:11:44 Thank you Madam Chair. Indeed as chairperson of the founding member of this organisation, I am trying to do my best in co-operation with the rapporteurs, with Presidency, with the Secretary General, and with everybody here, and I expect the same from everybody. In this context, I have three problems in this report. I will briefly mention it: one is that my country has some particularities, differences from others, some problems, it is mainly terrorism. Unfortunately, this report does not... 20/04/2021 | 11:55:15 Thank you Mr President. I congratulate the rapporteur Mr Tiny KOX on this very principal issue for the organisation. I know it is not an easy task to cover everything. That's why I have three questions orally. Indeed, it is well known by everybody but we should remember here again. One is about accession of the EU to the Convention – it should be on equal footing and it should not distort the convention system at all. Secondly is the sustainability of the fiscal situation of the organisation... 19/04/2021 | 20:00:15 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear Colleagues, Firstly, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the progress report on the activities of the Bureau and the Standing Committee. I believe Mr Daems’ visit to Turkey was very fruitful for all sides. He met high-level personalities in our country and he was informed from first hand. I believe that such contacts are very valuable in the sense that the parties can understand each other better. On this occasion, I would like to... 19/04/2021 | 11:58:43 Thank you, Mister President. Although I am always open to any dialogue -and your visit to my country will be a turning point on this- from my misdemeanour, I should inform this august body that frequent debate in my country doesn't help anything. It is sometimes backfiring. That is why I urge the Assembly to postpone this to another session because the issues here cannot be dealt with in one week, two weeks, one month; some of them require systemic changes. When concerning judicial issues, we... 25/01/2021 | 18:12:30 Dear colleagues. I will be forthright. After a new chairperson, after attending a couple of monitoring sessions with the Monitoring Committee and co-rapporteurs and today listening to the remarks of the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee and co-rapporteur, I came to the conclusion that government representatives of the countries under monitoring should be represented in the Committee for an efficient and intelligent monitoring process. Because during my conversation with the co-rapporteurs... 25/01/2021 | 13:16:55 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, the latest Georgian elections, held in the aftermath of substantial legal reforms, adopted after a compromise following a year-long and inclusive consultation process between the ruling party and the opposition, were of great importance for Georgia in its democratic consolidation. I would like to recall that the statement of preliminary findings of the Election Observation Mission, which was a joint endeavour of parliamentarians from PACE, NATO PA and... 20/11/2020 | 16:33:05 Thank you Mr President. Dear Ms Petra STIENEN congratulations for the report. I wish you had come to Turkey when I was deputy foreign minister to give an opinion about the Turkish example on diplomacy. Let me give you some numbers and ratios. The ratio of political officers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey is 34%. The number of mid-level diplomats is 31%. The rate of ambassadors, lady ambassadors, 25%, and the number of young female diplomats is increasing year by year. Mr... 20/11/2020 | 11:30:33 Dear Mr Chairman, Mr President. I am so happy to listen your statements, it is very important to me as new member of PACE. I was in your meeting with the speaker of the parliament in Ankara. Your remarks were really educating to me, as I say, as a new member of PACE. Some colleagues mention Turkey repeatedly about non-implementation. I respect that, but you mentioned the case of Demirtaş, you explained... but I urge the colleagues to remember that Greece does not implement a decision of the...