We had our annual meeting in Istanbul in 2016. The Turks had to approach that realistically, because it was quite clear that many of our members—which pretty much represent all political parties in the alliance—were expressing very, very, very severe reservations about what was going on in Turkey and that we could not possibly have that meeting and not discuss those issues.
I give credit to our Turkish delegation. I don't say they slipped into it, but they eventually recognized the logic that they had to make space for those forms of discussion, because it was inevitable that those things would come up. They put the minister of justice and various government ministers into each of the committees so that we could have a completely frank exchange of views, and it included one member of the Turkish Parliament who had been arrested and had just been released.
In formal terms, when a nation ceases to have a functioning parliament, the assembly is quite clear: they cease to participate in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. In our history, there have been times when we didn't have Portugal, Greece, or Turkey. We're not there yet with Turkey.