2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Türkiye

Tabled by Tomasz Froelich, Alexander Sell, Petr Bystron, Hans Neuhoff

Added: 23a. Recalls that the EU’s motto is ‘United in diversity’; recalls that, according to Article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the EU must respect the national identity of its Member States, which also includes national cultural diversity and constitutional values and principles; calls on the EU to respect the national identity of accession candidate Türkiye; respects, in this regard, Türkiye’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention; notes that this convention is based on the ideological assumptions of gender theory, which assumes that femininity and masculinity are cultural creations that reinforce systematically unequal power relations; notes that Member States Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia have not ratified the Istanbul Convention;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE772.534v01-00