68It follows that, according to the Court’s case-law, such a transposition of the principles underlying the freedom of movement under European Union law may be justified only by the objective of progressively securing freedom of movement for Turkish workers pursued by the EEC-Turkey Association, as laid down in Article 12 of the Association Agreement (see, inter alia, Dörr and Ünal, paragraph 66). Yet Article 12, in referring to the Treaty articles relating to the free movement of workers, confirms that the purpose underpinning that association is solely economic in nature.
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