27 OCTOBER 2001, Page 32

Borrowed from Turkey

From Duncan Blake, OBE Sir: On reading the report from Blackpool by Bruce Anderson (Politics, 13 October), I was delighted to note that the `soundbite' of the Tory conference was 'Security abroad, security at home', about 70 years after one of Atattirk's pronouncements (they were not called soundbites in those days), 'Peace at home, peace in the world' (Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh).

One hopes that Mr fain Duncan Smith can do for the party and the country what Atatiirk managed to do for Turkey then.

Duncan Blake

Istanbul, Turkey