This report mentioned that in 2003 some 21,870 Turks submitted asylum claims in the EU, of which 2,127 were accepted. In other words, the EU’s own governments acknowledged in 2003 that the Turkish government had persecuted more than 2,000 of its own citizens.
我反对的基础是当时欧盟执委会负责扩大事务的执委甘特·沃河根起草的一份委员会报告。报告中指出2003年约21870名土耳其人向欧盟提交了庇护申请，其中的2127人被给予相应援助。换句话说，欧盟成员国政府当时承认，2003年土耳其政府曾迫害2000多名本国公民。