30/09/2025 | 11:42:05 Thank you. We are here in this Council to address the issue of democracy, rule of law and inclusive dialogue in Türkiye, or the lack of it. On numerous occasions, myself, on behalf of the United European Left, and most of you, have all questioned the Turkish state regarding the long-standing violations of international law against its neighbouring countries like Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, Armenia, and of course, against the rule of law against its citizens. On numerous occasions we asked... 09/04/2025 | 12:47:42 Thank you, Mister Minister. The political turmoil which has overwhelmed Syria and the emergence of radical Islamists, Islamist groups nurtured by Turkey to dominate the revolutionary scene, and now the administration, has fuelled fears among the Christians, in particular those who live close to the group's areas of influence. These fears have materialised and the ongoing atrocities being committed against Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities leading to elimination, seem not to... 27/06/2024 | 16:27:29 Thank you President. Dear colleagues, I will start by welcoming the initiative behind this Resolution and Mr Piero FASSINO's attempt to be fair. The request that Varosha should be returned to its legitimate owners is an entirely fair one. Since the invasion by Turkish forces, representatives of the Turkish Cypriot community have continued to be provocative. As a member of this Parliamentary Assembly, and as a women defending the values of rule of law, democracy and human rights, it is my... 25/06/2024 | 16:08:08 Thank you, Mister President. Mister UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, I welcome you as well on behalf of the United European Left in the Council of Europe. 2024 marks the 50th dark anniversary of the illegal invasion of Türkiye in Cyprus. Cyprus and its people have been suffering for five decades the persistent violation of human rights and of humanitarian law, amidst the violation of international law. In specific: The fate of almost 1 000 persons still missing; Almost 1/3 of the... 12/10/2022 | 17:05:25 Yes, because Prime Minister Edi RAMA is now gone. I would like to say that I'm not just a lady who took the floor. My name is Ms Nina KASIMATI. I was introduced by you, and I am the representative and the spokesperson of the Group of the Unified European Left at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, I posed the question to Prime Minister Edi RAMA. The question was not posed on behalf of Greece but on behalf of the group, and I'm really sorry for that matter... 12/10/2022 | 16:36:11 Thank you very much, Mister President. Welcome to our Assembly, Prime Minister RAMA, even in this tactless way you had the time for. Anyway, you are very well aware that we are particularly keen on supporting Albania and all West Balkan Partners in meeting the necessary conditions for their EU accession process. Do you think that the necessary adherence on Albania's part to European values and principles, that this accession process entails, could really be compatible with following a policy... 21/06/2022 | 12:30:34 Dear learned friends, it has been said in manifold cases by willing observers that Türkiye is an important player in the Ukraine crisis, yet it is by no means a predictable one or a principled one. In fact, Ankara, the evasive neutral, is known for taking arduously advantage of instability in order to promote its own interests. It is regrettable that Türkiye insists on its illegal and provocative practices. Only recently, they have put forth in a most formal way unfounded claims that Greece's... 22/04/2021 | 09:28:28 Thank you, thank you, Mister President, Minister Michael ROTH, welcome to our Assembly on behalf of the Unified European Left, too. It is common sense that Turkey chooses to be on the fringes of international legal order by challenging the norms and values of both the Council of Europe and the European Union. With no time for a lengthy analysis on the issue, I would like to address you as an honourable decision-making member of the Bundestag and the government that holds the current... 21/04/2021 | 17:05:04 Thank you, honorable Mister President, Vice President, Madam Secretary General and Commissioner for human rights, As a member of the Greek delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe I would like to make a statement to commemorate that 54 years ago this day, on the 21st of April 1967, a foreign leader junta was imposed in Greece, abrogating democracy, dismantling human rights and the rule of law. And ended, seven years later, with the Turkish invasion and the ongoing... 21/04/2021 | 10:48:18 President SASSOLI, welcome to our Assembly on behalf of the Unified European Left as well. I believe we can all agree that the balance in the relationship between the European Union and Turkey has now been obviously absent due to the deviations of the latter from the Council of Europe treaties, as well as due to its violations of international law and European acquis. Thus severely undermining not only the basic pillars of the Council of Europe and EU, namely democracy, human rights and the...