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Prague,27 July - A demonstration against
Turkey's entry to the European Union will be staged
in Prague's Wenceslas Square on Friday by the Voice
for Europe international civic initiative, Jana
Kaderabkova from the initiative told CTK yesterday.
Czech members of the European Parliament Josef
Zieleniec and Tomas Zatloukal (both Association of
Independent Candidates, SNK) are to take part in the
protest, according to its organisers.
Since May, the Voice for Europe organisation has
been collecting signatures for a petition against
Turkey's EU entry in several European Union
countries, including the Czech Republic.
So far, about 30,000 people have signed the
petition, including 11,000 from the Czech Republic,
Kaderabkova said.
The participants in the Friday demonstration plan to
stage a march from Wenceslas Square to the
Government Office, where they intend to hand the
petition and an open letter to PM Jiri Paroubek
(senior government CSSD), the organisers told CTK.
A June demonstration against the accession of Turkey
to the European Union, which was staged by Voice for
Europe outside the Turkish embassy in Prague, was
attended by some 50 people.
In their speeches, they pointed out that Turkish EU
membership would not only harm the EU, but Turkey
itself.
They said that although Turkey has made progress in
its path to democracy, it still violates human
rights and its cultural and religious roots are too
different from EU countries'.
Citing a high-ranking EU diplomat, the Reuters
agency reported on Monday that Turkey would sign a
protocol on Wednesday on expanding its relations
with the EU to include its new member countries,
including Cyprus, which is the last condition for
the start of EU accession talks in October.
CTK news edited by the staff of the Prague Daily
Monitor, a Monitor CE service
www.praguemonitor.com
www.ctk.cz
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