30/01/2020 | 20:04:07 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear President, Dear Colleagues, I would like to thank both Rapporteurs for their diligent work on these highly important topics. The trafficking and smuggling of migrants and the plight of missing refugee and migrant children deserve to be on the top of agenda of international community. The international endeavours concerning these topics carry utmost importance for ensuring that the rights of these individuals are respected in line with... 28/01/2020 | 19:24:57 Thank you dear President and dear colleagues. I thank the rapporteur for a report that has done a careful job of covering the threats to journalists and media freedom across all member countries. However, I have to say that it is disappointing that even such a detailed report ignores the assaults on media freedom of Turkish community in Western Thrace. I would like to give a clear account of two relevant incidents that happened in the time frame that the report covers. In February 2017 a car... 02/10/2019 | 18:33:43 Dear Chair and colleagues. I also would like to start with my deepest gratitude to the rapporteur, for she produced a good piece of work. However, I believe it could have been more encompassing: you know if it was not so limited to three main European countries – England, France and Germany. Because most bloody acts of terrorism at the same time occur in different parts of Europe as well. Dear colleagues, sometimes in order to escape from our mistakes we tend to resort to the use of some... 11/04/2019 | 16:28:05 Let me start by thanking the rapporteur for preparing this important report. He is well aware that globalisation has simply widened, deepened and sped up worldwide interconnectedness. Over the last decades the sheer scale and scope of global interconnectedness has become evident in every sphere, from economic to cultural. This trend has inevitably brought challenges for the financial system. Globalisation has turned the international financial system into a money launderer’s dream, in which... 25/01/2019 | 12:21:40 As has already been mentioned by my Turkish colleague, this paragraph is a bit biased. We have produced an amendment that is against mentioning countries. Paragraph 7.2 calls on the member States to authorise automatic publication of reports, without specifically highlighting a State. Unfortunately, paragraph 8 turns this around and specifically names Turkey. This has already been explained by the committee as an excuse. As the committee chair says, the committee has written to Turkey, asking... 24/01/2019 | 16:35:22 From the classical period onwards, there have been different definitions of democracy as the most convenient way of ruling, mainly based on fundamental rights. Democracy gives priority to the collective or united way of existence, supported by freedom, the rule of law, welfare and security. At the same time, it repudiates the use of illegal means and vehicles that harm democracy itself, such as forcing people towards public mutiny or revolt, threatening them into supporting a particular group...