The inbox

SIR - Your article on transvestites in Turkey (Gender-benders, November 8th) contains a small - but to some sectors of society - significant error. You refer to Esmeray as “born a man but found he ...

SIR - Your evaluation of the current situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially the impact of the European Union's comprehensive intervention, 13 years after the Dayton Peace Process stopped genoc...

SIR - There was an omission in your piece on abortion in Northern Ireland (No change, October 25th). No mention was made of the state of public opinion in the province on the subject. Perhaps that'...

SIR - I am struggling to reconcile The Economist's endorsement of Barack Obama for president (It's time, November 1st) with the poignant recent leader on capitalism (Capitalism at bay, October 18th...

SIR- What unpropitious timing. On the heels of Syria playing friend, not foe, in relations with Lebanon and Israel and queuing for a diplomatic landing in London, American forces decide to pummel t...

SIR - The Pukanic murder was a tragedy, but your publication was all to quick to condemn it as “Balkan” (Still a Balkan country, November 1st). The reality is that the Croatian authorities quickly ...

SIR – You suggest that Tzipi Livni's failure to form a government in Israel was “self-inflicted” (Tzipi or Bibi? November 1st). This came as a rude shock to me. One would have thought that yo...

SIR- Your leader on Congo (Don't let it all happen all over again, November 1st), opines that Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, must make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces maraudin...

SIR - Your article on the mass casual leave programme of the staff of the Reserve Bank of India have referred to their “nonchalance” to India's financial problems (“Taxonomy of trouble”, October 25...

SIR - As a Spanish citizen living abroad I feel pain to see how a public functionary, tax payed by all of us like Judge Baltazar Garzon looses his time reopening wounds from historic events half a ...