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Erdogan tells UK paper: Know your limits!
[ARABNEWS] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Saturday stepped up his attacks on foreign media a day ahead of legislative elections, telling the Guardian to "know your limits" and lamenting that "Jewish capital" was behind the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Erdogan has during the campaign leading up to Sunday's polls repeatedly criticized foreign media, amid growing concerns over an erosion of freedom of expression in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... under his rule. In one of its final pre-election rallies in the eastern province of Ardahan, Erdogan took offense at an article in the Guardian critical of his rule, including an editorial titled "Growing autocracy threatens a crucial country." "Do you know what a British newspaper says about this election?" Erdogan told the crowd. "It says the not fully-westernized, poor Moslems are not being allowed to manage their own country!" "Who are you? You are impertinent!" he told the paper. "Know your limits. Since when were you given such authority?" Erdogan also launched a new attack on the New York Times, which has written there are "dark clouds" over Turkey under his rule. He said the newspaper had been campaigning against Turkey's leaders going back to Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, who ruled the Ottoman Empire during the final phase of its decline. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-07 |
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