I am surprised that the Minister has repeated the remarks of the Minister of State, Deputy Gay Mitchell, to the European Parliament on 18 September when he expressed his view that notable progress had been made in the area of democratisation and internal reform since 1983 in Turkey. This flies in the face of all known facts and international reports on Turkey. Does the Minister consider, for example, the reform of Article 8 of the Turkish anti-terror law, under which dissemination of separatist propaganda remains an imprisonable offence, to be notable progress in the areas of democratisation and internal reform? Further, is the Minister aware that in 1994 more than 50 cases of disappearances were submitted to the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances from Turkey, that in 1995 a further 35 disappearances were reported by Amnesty International, that in March 1995 22 people were shot dead by police during disturbances in Istanbul, that in the same year there were approximately 100 political killings, many of them extrajudicial, and that the police officers and gendarmes who commit such human rights violations remain immune to prosecution under the law on the prosecution of civil servants which permits local governors to block prosecutions of security forces personnel? With that record, would the Minister like to consider his statement that notable progress has been made in the area of democratisation and internal reform and on human rights questions?