"A mere apology is not enough to undo the damage," he said in a statement.
If she contends there was a fundamental breach that cannot be corrected with a mere apology then some further action might be needed," Aftergood said.
Not only does the CPS refuse to hear from Arwa, it doesn't want to hear from other rendition victims either, such as Abdul-Hakim Belhaj, the Libyan dissident who put grievance aside and fought with Nato to overthrow Gaddafi, and has said he would walk away from the case for a mere apology.
Each time she reported an incident, she said, the official response "was one of minimizing my experience and attempting to resolve the situation with a mere apology from the perpetrator instead of imposing more appropriate disciplinary action".
So, given we've invoked the "C'mon man, everybody does it!" defence used by pot-smoking teens and online piracy-obsessed millennials, it's clear that a mere apology won't solve this problem.
Erdogan's apology is progressive, but in retrospect Kurdish people have suffered decades of systematic killing, arbitrary arrest, unlawful detainment, banning of ethnic and cultural rights, and in light of this, a mere apology must be met with action for it to be meaningful.
A simple apology is inadequate, and a fine would trivialize his misconduct by treating it as a mere question of monetary restitution.
What he (Barb) has done can't be undone by a mere apology," Davila said.
This interview came mere days after the apology of another man, also of high intelligence but with a similar weakness for self-destructive stupidity, journalist Johann Hari.
The mere fact of an apology from a public official in America has become so rare as to merit mention.
