Several hundred Kurds were arrested for calling for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem. On 14 May 1997 Turkey invade northern Iraq, a second invasion took place on 20 May 1998. Turkey admits to 40,000 troops, observers on the ground put the figure closer to 100,000. For more than 20 years Turkey has occupied northern Cyprus . Occupied northern Cyprus has been described by one exile as 'a prison in the sun', tourists describe it as a police state.
Turkey is the signatory to many international conventions on human rights.
It has failed to honour a single convention. Turkey demands to join the European Union as a right. A state that has no respect for democracy, human rights and justice has no rights.