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higher standards are required. Or are they? Again in June of this year, theLondon Daily Telegraph published a report on the British footballhooliganswho had been arrested in Marseilles:Ali will be kept in the Baumettes prison in the city. Conditionsthere have improved, but it is stili regarded as one of the ghastliestprisons in France and vvas recently condemned in a report by the EuropeanCommittee for the Prevention of Torture. It said Baumetters"brought shame on France" and described it as "inhumane and degrading".Filthy bedding broken lavatories, rats and lice also avvaitthe Englishmen. They can expect to be sharing vvith thieves anddrug-dealers...Some think the reason for the general tone of the foreign press is anatavistic memory of anti-Ottoman polemics during the centuries vvhen theOttoman Empire vvas the most povverful State in Europe, or of nineteenthcenturyvvest-European sympathies vvith the subject-peoples' desire forindependence. I don't think that those vvho vvrite anti-Turkish articles innevvspapers knovv enough history to have any such memory. Ignorance isonly partly to blame. Most anti-Turkish journalism, formerly the productof the Soviet campaign to undermine NATO, is novvadays due to the influenceof those countries of the European Union vvho for their ovvn reasonsdo not vvant to see Turkey join them as full members. I should liketo quote here something I said in a talk I gave some years ago at a EuropeanCommunity conference on Turkey's place in Europe.I do not myself believe in European unity. I am not happy that myovvn country has let itself be dragged into it. But if my Turkishfriends vvant to be a part of it I am sure that their country's claim isat least as strong as that of -shall vve politely say?- certain othercountries. And above ali I should like to see them attain full membershipbecause that is vvhat Atatürk vvould have vvanted. It vvouldcrown his achievement; it vvould shovv that he vvas not indulging inan idle dream vvhen he set his young Republic's face vvestvvard.The constant appearance in the foreign press of ill-informed if notpositively hostile reports about Turkey makes great demands on the timeof Turkish embassies, but their letters to the editors of offending nevvspapersdo not alvvays have the desired effect, because readers think, 'Well,it's the duty of an embassy to defend its country's reputation, isn't it?What else could they say?' Therefore Turkey's friends abroad regard it asa duty to help to help to ansvver as many as they can of the pernicious fabricationspublished in the press, although even vvhen their letters are printedthey seldom elicit a retraction or an apology. For example, I oncevvrote in ansvver to a letter from a vvoman vvho declared to the LondonEvening Standard that Kemal Atatürk vvas responsible for a massacre of785