Turkey drops charges against writer

Well, good.

A charge of insulting his country levelled against the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk was formally abandoned on Monday, ending an embarrassing chapter in Turkish criminal justice that has drawn sharp criticism abroad.

Mr Pamuk’s lawyer said the writer’s trial had been abandoned after a court decided that it could not hear the case after a political decision that it should not be pursued.

Others will doubtless discern the EU’s pressure being brought to bear as regards this issue. Maybe so. In any case…the right result. Shame it took so long.