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| The Grand Turk |
| Turks don't need condoms, Universiade organizers |
| 2011-02-02 |
| Authorities removed condoms from Turkish athletes’ rooms at the Winter Universiade Games Village on the grounds that they do “not belong to Turkish culture,” daily Habertürk reported Tuesday. The daily said that condoms, which were left in the athletes’ rooms in the Games Village at the 2011 Winter University Games in the eastern province of Erzurum, were taken from Turks’ rooms. Kemal Tamer, the head of the University Sports Federation, said the authorities were aware of the collection. “That does not belong to our culture,” said Tamer. “That means, in a way, to encourage illicit intercourse. That is why we collected the condoms from our kids’ rooms.” Meanwhile in the Games, Russia continues to dominate the competitions, leading the medals table as of Monday night. Russia has won seven gold medals in addition to four silver and three bronze medals at the Games, followed by South Korea (five gold, three silver, three bronze) and China (two gold, two silver, two bronze) respectively. The Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia are three other nations with two gold medals, while Germany, Japan, Italy, France, Kazakhstan, Switzerland and the United States all have one gold medal each. Turkey’s poor results also continued at the tournament, with the men and women’s ice hockey teams being on the wrong end of humiliating routs. Women’s team suffered an agonizing 32-0 against Finland, while men’s side was beaten 26-0 by Russia on Monday. The men’s team suffered 16-0 and 18-0 routs at the hands of the Czech Republic and Japan in previous games. The women’s national team lost 10-0 to Great Britain and 15-0 to the United States and 20-0 to Slovakia previously. Turkish women’s curling team lost 12-4 to Japan on Tuesday, a day after losing 8-7 to Germany. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Hmm, maybe I should have chosen different phrasing. Another couldashouldawoulda moment. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-02-02 11:09 |
| #4 Insert Dick Cheney cougar condom joke here. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-02-02 11:07 |
| #3 N.B.: The Turkish birthrate is 2.18 children per family, and I imagine that the Kurds are having a lot more children than the Turks. While 70% of the country is ethnically Turkish and only 20% Kurds, this may be subject to change. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-02 08:58 |
| #2 Turks don't need condoms The conclusion would be that they are monkish and self restrained, eunuchs, or don't have the required hardware. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-02 08:34 |
| #1 condoms ... do "not belong to Turkish culture How about consensual sex? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-02 07:46 |