Mr Baykal's shrillness is drowning out legitimate fears about Turkey moving to a more restrictive social environment because of a more aggressive piety.

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Strip the recent headlines of their shrillness and China's fear is obvious.

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Both Mr Verity and Mr Mitchell give Hecuba's speech to her husband, Priam, when he tells her of going to retrieve their son Hector's body from Achilles, a certain shrillness not necessarily heard in the Greek.

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