STRASBOURG
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.
