No Turkish delight

APPARENTLY I make our Prime Minister "angry'" for daring to question whether Turkey should become a member of the European Union (your report, 28 July).

Mr Cameron seems certain that allowing Turkey into the EU would bring greater prosperity and stability.

Has he considered what will happen if the more extreme Islamic parties get control in Turkey? Does it even bother him that it is still a crime in Turkey to call the massacre of more than a million Armenians "genocide"? What about the plight of the Kurds? Or of Christians in Turkey?

It is easy enough to lecture Israel from the safety of Turkey. I would have a lot more respect for our Prime Minister if he had the courage to insist that Turkey offered real democracy, freedom of religion and apologised for its repressive and authoritarian past.

DAVID A ROBERTSON

Shamrock Street

Dundee