Call for freedom of speech rings hollow

By RM Walters

FT
October 17 2006 03:00

Sir, Your clarion call "Threat to free speech" (editorial, October 13)
has a hollow ring to it. Consider for a moment how much free speech the
ordinary citizens of the European Union have been allowed to date over
whether they wish Turkey to join (and likewise, Romania and Bulgaria);
and how much free speech Turkey allows its intellectuals (let alone
its Kurdish minority). It is quite understandable if France’s Armenian
minority do not want Turkey to be encouraged to rewrite history.

R. M. Walters,

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