Saturday, 14th January 2012
UKIP MEP William Dartmouth has slammed Turkey's EU ambitions following that nation's threats to pursue Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, following a documentary she made on conditions inside Turkish orphanages.
The Earl of Dartmouth today said: "The Duchess of York has done trojan work exposing the inhuman conditions of Turkish orphanages for which we should all be thankful.
"In response to her expose the Turkish state has disgracefully threatened her with jail.
"Given Turkey's disgraceful human rights record, its continued occupation of Cyprus with 40,000 troop and its current threat to the Duchess of York it is now time for Mr Cameron as well as leaders of the Labour and LibDem parties to halt their fervent support for Turkish membership of the EU.
"It has been suggested that the Duchess is unlikely to be extradited as the offense is not a crime under British law.
"However, if Turkey was today a member of the European Union the Duchess would be subject to the European Arrest Warrant . In which case there would be no legal process of extradition and the Duchess would be carted off to a Turkish jail - there to languish possibly for two years or more before trial. If the three party leaders do not want a rerun of the 1978 film Midnight Express about a person's treatment in a Turkish prison they must, like UKIP, say no to Turkish accession to the European Union."
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