01/10/2015 Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda.
The first speaker, Ertuğrul Kürkçü (Turkey, UEL), referred to the situation in Turkey and draw the attention on the next PACE mission due to observe the next elections that he described as “crucial”. If Europe and the United States see Turkey only as an auxiliary country in their war in Syria “we all know what the result will be”. That is why he called on the Assembly to pay the greatest attention to Turkey’s civil society and democratic institutions during the struggle of the 1 November elections.