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NO TURKISH DELIGHT
http://news.scotsman.com/letters/No-Turkish-delight.6445580.jp
29 July 2010
APPARENTLY I make our Prime Minister "angry'" for daring to question
whether Turkey should become a member of the European Union (your
report, 28 July).
Mr Cameron seems certain that allowing Turkey into the EU would bring
greater prosperity and stability.
Has he considered what will happen if the more extreme Islamic parties
get control in Turkey? Does it even bother him that it is still a
crime in Turkey to call the massacre of more than a million Armenians
"genocide"? What about the plight of the Kurds? Or of Christians
in Turkey?
It is easy enough to lecture Israel from the safety of Turkey. I would
have a lot more respect for our Prime Minister if he had the courage
to insist that Turkey offered real democracy, freedom of religion
and apologised for its repressive and authoritarian past.
From: A. Papazian
http://news.scotsman.com/letters/No-Turkish-delight.6445580.jp
29 July 2010
APPARENTLY I make our Prime Minister "angry'" for daring to question
whether Turkey should become a member of the European Union (your
report, 28 July).
Mr Cameron seems certain that allowing Turkey into the EU would bring
greater prosperity and stability.
Has he considered what will happen if the more extreme Islamic parties
get control in Turkey? Does it even bother him that it is still a
crime in Turkey to call the massacre of more than a million Armenians
"genocide"? What about the plight of the Kurds? Or of Christians
in Turkey?
It is easy enough to lecture Israel from the safety of Turkey. I would
have a lot more respect for our Prime Minister if he had the courage
to insist that Turkey offered real democracy, freedom of religion
and apologised for its repressive and authoritarian past.
From: A. Papazian