Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2023(INI)
2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Türkiye
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 7 May 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 23 January 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 9 April 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 15 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 7 May 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
7 May 2025 · decision 18
Foreign affairs, Resolution
2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye
Adopted 367 for · 74 against · 188 abstained by a clear majority
AI summary:The resolution notes that accession negotiations have been at a standstill since 2018 and that Türkiye's gap with EU values and norms remains unaddressed.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:Adds strong condemnations of recent arrests, including of journalists and opposition figures, and demands releases. Adds new paragraphs on Cyprus, including condemnation of Erdoğan's visit and ECtHR decision on murders. Adds conditions for cooperation, linking progress to democratic standards and CFSP alignment. Adds concerns on women's rights, prisons, and Erasmus oversight, and updates refugee numbers. Other changes are formal: decimal separators and spelling corrections.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report now stresses growing divergence and standstill in accession, with more negative assessments of democracy and rule of law. It adds extensive new paragraphs on human rights abuses, judicial crisis, media freedom, women's and LGBTI+ rights, and prison conditions. It updates positions on Cyprus, Syria, Russia, and other foreign policy issues, adding calls for alignment and condemning violations. It reframes the relationship towards a strategic partnership while insisting on conditionality and no shortcuts in accession.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Isabel Wiseler-Lima (EPP), Nikola Bartůšek (Patriots), Geadis Geadi (ECR), Malik Azmani (Renew), Vladimir Prebilič (Greens), Giorgos Georgiou (The Left), Tomasz Froelich (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 7 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Türkiye says the country's EU accession process cannot resume because of democratic backsliding, and calls for a strategic partnership based on conditionality.
Tabled for plenary· 15 Apr 2025
AI summary:This resolution responds to the Commission's 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye, covering accession progress and EU-Türkiye relations.
Committee draft· 29 Jan 2025
AI summary:This draft report responds to the Commission's 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye, assessing its EU accession progress and broader relations. It finds that Türkiye has not addressed fundamental democratic shortcomings and that its accession process cannot resume under current circumstances.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
7 May 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 7 May 2025 Report A10-0067/2025Adopted text TA10-0092/2025
6 May 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
29 April – 30 April 2025
46 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Amendments 1–5Amendments 6–13Amendments 14–16Amendments 17–26Amendments 27–28Amendments 29–30Amendments 31–36Amendments 37–41Amendments 42–45Amendment 46
15 April 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
9 April 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
4 March 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of AFET (Foreign Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (AFET)Amendments in committee (AFET)
29 January 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in AFET (Foreign Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 January 2025
Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2023(INI)