Micheal Guy.
Pheh! Keep your Queen. She has nothing to do with Turkey!

Ozb, Melbourne,

Is it known in what circumstances Her Majesty will meet the leaders of the historic Christian churches in that country or whether a visit to the Oecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios is planned?

Clive Sweeting, Paris, France

I am sure the Queen will be welcomed with open arms and that Turkish hospitality will be gracefully extended to such distinguished guests. I hope she will come away quietly impressed with the reforms Turkey have gone through and perhaps she will also draw comfort in the similarities between our two great nations, both former imperial powers and both have experience dealing with seperatist terrorism.

Unfortunately we will always have N Mirans in this world who will never be happy with any reform. The very fact that many of Turkey's wealthy elite are Kurdish and that the state run television channel are considering the broadcast of Kurdish programmes or that we have a ethnic Kurds in government are conveniently ignored.

Volkan, London,

a remarkable woman, with a remarkable career...its a shame that the royal family have been treated with such revulsion by the media in recent times. HM willingness to vistit such countries as Turkey provides an inspring insight into her passion for positive change and hope for better things to come; be it may that Turkey does not deserve such attention.

Michael Guy, London, UK

It is a shame that Her Majesty has accepted to pay a state visit to a country which been carrying out racist, and discriminatory policies against all its minorities, especially the Kurds who number some 20 million people, ever since its conception after WWI.
When Kurdish parents have no right to educate their children in their own language - in conjunction with Turkish; when Kurdish parents are not allowed to give their offsprings a Kurdish name; when any Kurdish publication is proscribed; when uttering even a single sentence in Kurdish within any governmental institution can mean a prison sentence for its perpetrator, then doesn't the Queen's visit to Turkey give racism, and human rights abuse legitimacy?
I think Her Majesty should postpone her visit until Turkey rids itself of racism, and human rights abuses against its minorities. Until then Turkey does not deserve the attention of Her Majesty the Queen.

N.Miran

Nawzad Miran, Orpington, UK

This is a good news.

Richard Costen, Paris,