Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 13258 | 26 June 2013

Popular protest and challenges to freedom of assembly, media and speech

Signatories: Ms Nursuna MEMECAN, Turkey, ALDE ; Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Mevlüt ÇAVUŞOĞLU, Turkey, EDG ; Mr Mike HANCOCK, United Kingdom, ALDE ; Ms Meritxell MATEU PI, Andorra, ALDE ; Mr Luca VOLONTÈ, Italy, EPP/CD

Origin - 2013 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 3, replace the first sentence with the following sentence:

"Recently, on 31 May 2013, a peaceful demonstration organised by environmentalists against an urban renovation project in Istanbul was in part taken over by unrelated extremist groups whose intervention increasingly intensified the situation, which then led to a heavy police intervention and triggered an unexpected popular protest movement in Turkey."