Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. Own-initiative report First reading
2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Türkiye
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 7 May 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- ✓ Referred to committee 23 January 2025
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 9 April 2025
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 15 April 2025
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 7 May 2025
- ✓ Parliament’s position Final
How a file moves through Parliament
A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.
Who is working on it
- Lead committee
- AFET — Foreign Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR S&D
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Isabel WISELER-LIMA PPENikola BARTŮŠEK PfEGeadis GEADI ECRMalik AZMANI RenewVladimir PREBILIČ Verts/ALEGiorgos GEORGIOU The LeftTomasz FROELICH ESN
The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.
The text, version by version
Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0092/2025 7 May 2025 ✦ 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.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0067/2025 15 April 2025 ✦ This resolution responds to the Commission's 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye, covering accession progress and EU-Türkiye relations.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (AFET) 29 January 2025 ✦ 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.
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: 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. see the changes →
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: 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. see the changes →
Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.
Timeline
- Plenary stage
- 7 May 2025 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by a clear majorityFor 367 Against 74 Abstained 188
Final vote — text as a whole at 14:32 · 58% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
Show all 82 ballots in voting order
RejectedAdopted3. Amendment 20, adding text after paragraph 1 14:21 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 1 – Am 20Rejected4. Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 1 — part 1 14:22 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 1 – Am 21/1Rejected5. Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 1 — part 2 14:22 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 1 – Am 21/2Rejected6. Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 1 — part 3 14:22 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 1 – Am 21/3Rejected7. Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 1 14:22 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 1 – Am 22Rejected8. Separate vote on paragraph 3RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded9. Amendment 40, adding text after paragraph 6 14:22 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 6 – Am 40Rejected10. Separate vote on paragraph 13AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded11. Separate vote on paragraph 13AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdopted13. Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 15 14:23 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 15 – Am 2Adopted14. Separate vote on paragraph 16Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded15. Separate vote on paragraph 18AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded16. Amendment 44, adding text after paragraph 18 14:23 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 18 – Am 44AdoptedAdoptedAdoptedRejected20. Separate vote on paragraph 21Adoptedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded21. Separate vote on paragraph 21AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdopted23. Separate vote on paragraph 23RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded24. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded25. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded26. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded27. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded28. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded29. Separate vote on paragraph 24AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedNot put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.31. Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 23 14:25 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 23 – Am 25Rejected32. Amendment 41, adding text after paragraph 25 14:25 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 25 – Am 41Rejected33. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 25RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded34. Separate vote on paragraph 28AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded35. Separate vote on paragraph 28Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded36. Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 28 14:25 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After § 28 – Am 4Rejected37. Separate vote on paragraph 29AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded38. Separate vote on paragraph 29AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded39. Separate vote on paragraph 30AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded40. Separate vote on paragraph 30Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded41. Separate vote on paragraph 30Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded42. Separate vote on paragraph 31AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded43. Separate vote on paragraph 31AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded44. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 31AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded45. Separate vote on paragraph 32AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded46. Separate vote on paragraph 32AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded47. Separate vote on paragraph 33AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded48. Separate vote on paragraph 36RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded49. Separate vote on paragraph 37AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded50. Separate vote on paragraph 37AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded51. Separate vote on paragraph 39AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded52. Separate vote on paragraph 39AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded53. Separate vote on paragraph 39AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded54. Separate vote on paragraph 42RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedRejected56. Separate vote on paragraph 43RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded57. Separate vote on paragraph 46RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded58. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 46RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdopted60. Separate vote on paragraph 49Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedNot put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.62. Separate vote on paragraph 49Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdopted64. Separate vote on paragraph 50Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedNot put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.71. Separate vote on paragraph 53RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded72. Separate vote on paragraph 53AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedAdoptedAdopted75. Amendment 37, adding text after recital K 14:31 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After recital K – Am 37Rejected76. Amendment 38, adding text after recital K 14:32 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – After recital K – Am 38Rejected77. Separate vote on recital LRejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded78. Separate vote on recital MRejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded79. Vote on text inserted after recital QAdoptedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded80. Separate vote on recital RRejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded81. Separate vote on recital TAdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded82. Final vote — text as a whole 14:32 A10-0067/2025 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)Adopted - 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.