Will Constantinople, er, Istanbul get the works?

I dunno enough about Turkish politics to know if this is even (directly) related to the Creeping Theocracy subject or not, but has a story from a Turkish historian which suggests an awful lot of the same influences are at work there as here:

Taner Akçam

For many who challenge their government’s official version of events, slander, e-mailed threats, and other forms of harassment are all too familiar. As a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience in Turkey, I should not have been surprised. But my recent detention at the Montreal airport—apparently on the basis of anonymous insertions in my Wikipedia biography—signals a disturbing new phase in a Turkish campaign of intimidation that has intensified since the November 2006 publication of my book, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility..

I know the subject of the Armenian Late Unpleasantness is about as popular with a non-Armenian Turk as slavery is at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting, but the depth of the campaign against this professor is breathtaking. The fact that a collegue of similar views was recently murdered gives some idea of the bravery it takes for him to continue to travel, speak and otherwise work on the subject:

Taner Akçam – Turkish intellectual, professor at the University of Minnesota, and the author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility – recently became the subject of a formal complaint under Turkey’s Penal Code Article 301: the same “crime” of “insulting Turkishness” for which Hrant Dink was tried and found guilty by the Turkish judiciary.