Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.