Turkey Under The Magnifying Glass

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The European Court of Human Rights ruled has just ruled that the trial of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, which took place six years ago, was unfair. Turkey has already suggested that it is willing to conduct a retrial. Those of us who favour the proposal that Turkey should eventually join the EU, but who feel that this should happen conditional on a major improvement in the handling of human rights issues (amongst other reforms), can only welcome both these pieces of news.

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About Edward Hugh

Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".