Holocaust denial (The Argus, January 27) is indeed a menace - a dangerous tool used by the advocates of a police state to cover up abusive and repressive policies.
Such a state is Turkey, still persecuting ethnic minorities and trade unionists, indulging widespread violence towards women and turning a blind eye towards child "marriage".
Indeed, the state still even denies the killing of three million innocent Armenians during the First World War - the first modern holocaust.
You would think the Labour Party, stuffed to the gills as it is with human rights lawyers, would insist Turkey owns up to this atrocity and pays compensation to the victims' families before being allowed into the EU. Strangely, the official party line is to indulge in the same holocaust denial as the Turkish government: The Armenians must have imagined it, apparently, because it never happened.
Could there be any connection between this disregard for human rights and Tony Blair's desire for the Turkish vote when he makes his bid to become president of Europe?
-Ian Hills, Blackman Street, Brighton
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