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12.5.2021 A9-0153/1 Amendment 1Nathalie Loiseau, Pierre Karleskind, Ilana Cicurel on behalf of the Renew Group Report A9-0153/2021 Nacho Sánchez Amor 2019-2020 Reports on Turkey (2019/2176(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 21a. Deplores the detention conditions of Fabien Azoulay, a French national arrested and convicted in Turkey, who has been held in prison for more than four years, most recently in Giresun prison, where he has been subjected to physical violence and repeated mistreatment, as well as attempts to force him to convert to Islam; strongly condemns the homophobic and anti-Semitic motives behind his repeated mistreatment; urges the Turkish authorities to without delay take all necessary measures to ensure his protection and transfer to his home country; Or. en AM\1231437EN.docx PE692.533v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 12.5.2021 A9-0153/2 Amendment 2 Hilde Vautmans, Petras Auštrevičius, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Nicola Danti, Klemen Grošelj, Christophe Grudler, Irena Joveva, Karin Karlsbro, Fabienne Keller, Nathalie Loiseau, Karen Melchior, Ulrike Müller, Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Samira Rafaela, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Ramona Strugariu on behalf of the Renew Group Report A9-0153/2021 Nacho Sánchez Amor 2019-2020 Reports on Turkey (2019/2176(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 Motion for a resolution Amendment 45. Strongly condemns the Turkish 45. Strongly condemns the Turkish Government’s decision to withdraw from Government’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, bringing Turkey the Istanbul Convention, bringing Turkey further away from EU and international further away from EU and international standards and putting into serious question standards and putting into serious question its commitments to prevent violence its commitments to prevent violence against women and promote women’s against women and promote women’s rights, which is a clear sign of the serious rights, which is a clear sign of the serious deterioration of human rights in the deterioration of human rights in the country; finds this decision country; finds this decision incomprehensible as the convention has not incomprehensible as the convention has not changed since Turkey was the very first changed since Turkey was the very first country to sign and ratify it, and also country to sign and ratify it, and also dangerous, in a time of rising violence dangerous, in a time of rising violence against women during the pandemic and in against women during the pandemic and in view of the high femicide rate in the view of the high femicide rate in the country; calls on Turkey’s Government to country; calls on Turkey’s Government to urgently reverse it; continues to be urgently reverse it; deplores the recent concerned about the prevalence and sofagate incident in Ankara, which raised severity of violence against women in serious doubts about the current Turkish Turkish society, including so-called honour leadership’s respect for the EU, as well as killings, non-legal child marriages and for women and gender equality; calls for sexual abuse, and about the Turkish any new relationship with Turkey to be authorities’ reluctance to punish the based on fundamental democratic values, perpetrators of gender-based violence; including respect for women’s rights; rejects any legal provision that could in the continues to be concerned about the future allow rapists to be given suspended prevalence and severity of violence against sentences for child sex offences as long as women in Turkish society, including so- they marry their victim; urges the Turkish called honour killings, non-legal child AM\1231437EN.docx PE692.533v01-00 EN United in diversityEN authorities to increase their efforts to fight marriages and sexual abuse, and about the child labour, which has decreased in recent Turkish authorities’ reluctance to punish years but is still notable in Turkey, and the perpetrators of gender-based violence; against any form of child abuse; deplores rejects any legal provision that could in the the continued very low level of future allow rapists to be given suspended representation of women in government sentences for child sex offences as long as and parliament, with only 17.3 %, at the they marry their victim; urges the Turkish local level and in general in any decision- authorities to increase their efforts to fight making positions; child labour, which has decreased in recent years but is still notable in Turkey, and against any form of child abuse; deplores the continued very low level of representation of women in government and parliament, with only 17.3 %, at the local level and in general in any decision- making positions; Or. en AM\1231437EN.docx PE692.533v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 12.5.2021 A9-0153/3 Amendment 3 Klemen Grošelj, Nathalie Loiseau, Ilana Cicurel on behalf of the Renew Group Report A9-0153/2021 Nacho Sánchez Amor 2019-2020 Reports on Turkey (2019/2176(INI)) Motion for a resolution Paragraph 60 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 60a. Reaffirms its call expressed in its resolution of 15 April 2015, and once again encourages Turkey to recognise the Armenian Genocide, thus paving the way for a genuine reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples; calls on Turkey, in this regard, to refrain from any anti-Armenian propaganda and hate speech, and to fully respect its obligations to protect Armenian and other cultural heritage; Or. en AM\1231437EN.docx PE692.533v01-00 EN United in diversityEN.