http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/08/pussy-riot-and-selective-outrage-1.html
"You can’t really make excuses for a country with a bullying, overbearing leader, a country that locks up journalists and political opponents of the government. The fact that it has elections doesn’t make it free, does it? Well, no. The country I am in fact describing here is Turkey, which at the last count had 95 journalists behind bars, and where the bizarre and sinister Ergenekon prosecution is a pretext for the arrest (and often lengthy pre-trial detention) of opponents of Mr Erdogan, the country’s bossy, thin-skinned premier. The Economist, and other respectable organs , ceaselessly call Mr Erdogan’s government ‘mildly Islamist’ . What does he have to do to stop being called ‘mild’, I wonder?"
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