European Parliament adopts progress report on Turkey

The European Parliament's General Assembly adopted Thursday Turkey's progress report drafted by the Dutch politician and member of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) Ria Oomen-Ruijten. The report was accepted by 451 to 75. Prior to the voting, European lawmakers rejected a proposed amendment to the wording of draft that would leave out a definition of PKK as a "terrorist organization." A proposal to grant the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus  an observer status were rejected by Greece and the Greek-Cypriot administration but european lawmakers decided to refer the issue to the Conference of Presidents. Lawmakers rejected by a majority of the votes an amendment to invite Turkey to participate at a summit meeting of the European Union on December 2013 in Brussels.