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A prominent newspaper editor and leading figure in one of Turkey’s most painful historical debates - the massacre of Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman empire - was shot dead on Friday.

Mr Dink was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent and had played a leading role in breaking a taboo in Turkey where debate on the fate of the Armenians had for years been an untouchable subject. He was widely credited with trying to bring Turks and Armenians together but had been given a suspended prison sentence in 2005 for allegedly insulting the Turkish state.

Another person who supported Turkey's entry into the EU - something which now seems absurd in the near or medium term to most sensible observers - was Tony B. Liar whose motto as I remember it was "corrution, corruption and even more corruption". Tony B. Liar may have to sing small for awhile as corruption charges are still under consideration by the UK Police and his leading assistant Ruth Turner, Blair's director of government relations, was arrested the other day on suspicion of being involved in the sale of honours - illegal under British law - and perverting the course of justice.

IMO: Certainly the perversion of justice in the UK is very common and Private Eye is currently running a seres of articles on the Saudi Arabian contracts in that connexion.