De plus, bien que la Turquie ait retrouvé un système de démocratie parlementaire, des carences subsistent sous la forme de restrictions au pluralisme politique, d'atteintes incessantes aux droits de l'homme et de différends persistants avec un Etat membre particulier, sans oublier le cas de Chypre.
In addition, although Turkey had returned to a system of parliamentary democracy, deficiencies remained such as restraints on political pluralism, continued abuses of human rights, long-running disputes with a particular EC Member State and the situation in Cyprus which could not be ignored.