31. However, such a consequence, it maintains, would be contrary to the terms of the provision in question, which prescribes legal residence for a period of at least three years or five years, and to its objective which, in order to promote the integration of the members of a Turkish worker's family into the host Member State by creating conditions conducive to family reunification, makes the rights conferred on those persons conditional upon the situation of the Turkish worker himself; on the other hand, a Turkish national cannot enjoy independent rights unless he satisfies the conditions in Article 6 of Decision No 1/80, which also presupposes that the requirements of national law concerning residence and work permits have been complied with.
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