The Parliament adopted its 2025 report on Türkiye by 381 votes to 107 , with 171 abstentions. The final text was carried by the EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA, while ESN and PfE voted against and ECR and The Left largely abstained. The headline margin was comfortable, but the substance was decided in a series of close paragraph votes that ran along a left-right line. The political centre wrote its own set of changes into the report: amendments broadening the condemnation of pressure on the CHP opposition (carried by 36 votes), expanding the passage on transnational repression and Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks (carried by 82 votes), and replacing regret with explicit condemnation of Türkiye's engagement with Hamas (carried by just 13 votes, 307 – 294 ). A harder-line bloc — ECR, ESN, PfE and parts of the EPP — wanted to push further still and was repeatedly voted down. New paragraphs condemning the occupation of Cyprus and the 1974 invasion, reaffirming Hamas's EU terrorist designation, demanding stricter transparency on foreign-funded religious and cultural bodies, and tying the 2028 election monitoring to a decision on ending accession talks were all rejected, several by margins above 170 votes. Part of the split was separate from Türkiye altogether: an amendment rejecting Article 122 TFEU as the legal basis for the SAFE defence instrument fell by 217 votes. An opening amendment that would have dropped any explicit path to reopening accession in favour of an EU values-and-interests framing was also rejected, by 141 votes, leaving the accession perspective in the text.
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