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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 18, 2010 14:33:15 GMT -5
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/8211585.stmTurkey deports statue insult man A Carlisle teenager has been banned from entering Turkey for five years after drunkenly insulting the statue of a national hero. Thomas Strong, 19, stripped naked and hurled insults at the statue of Ataturk, founder of Turkey, while on holiday in Marmaris, officials said. A Turkish Embassy spokesman in London said the teenager broke a national law banning such insults. A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed Strong was arrested and later deported. The teenager was arrested by Turkish police on 16 August and deported on Wednesday after appearing before a local court. In 1935, when surnames were introduced in Turkey , he was given the name Ataturk, meaning Father of the Turks. He died on 10 November 1938.
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Post by leandros nikon on Mar 18, 2010 14:53:22 GMT -5
how many millions of statues and portraits of mustafa kemal allover turkey?
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 18, 2010 16:31:03 GMT -5
I dont know whether there are millions.But definitely in the thousands.
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Kanaris
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Post by Kanaris on Mar 18, 2010 16:59:35 GMT -5
When I was in Smyrna back in 83 during the military dictatorship ..my cousins kid when a bit too close to a statue of Kemal the one where he is sitting on a horse....and the soldiers moved in to warn them.....I thought "oh no.... shades of Midnight Express" ...LOL! The film was still new back then.... If it was today I would laugh...
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 18, 2010 20:24:38 GMT -5
Midnight Express came out in 77 or 78^
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Post by Kanaris on Mar 18, 2010 21:09:07 GMT -5
Midnight Express ... and the word 'Turkey' became synominous for the following 20 years.
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 19, 2010 0:41:54 GMT -5
yesss.................and I like that
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Post by Patrinos on Mar 19, 2010 5:26:48 GMT -5
Turks... can someone goes in an Ankyra square and shout that "Kemal is kerata"?
yes or no?
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Post by hellboy87 on Mar 19, 2010 13:44:32 GMT -5
they will kill you^^^
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