Anadolu Agency confirms from Ankara that Turkey has withdrawn its troops from a NATO military drill in Norway...
"There was an incident in Norway," Erdogan told ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party members in capital Ankara.
"They used an enemy chart in Norway. In that chart, there was my name and [Mustafa Kemal] Ataturk’s picture."
The president said he was informed about the issue by Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik.
Non-Turks don't understand the reverence held of Mr. Ataturk by his countrymen. It was (is?) against Turkish law to, in any way, defame the leader of modern (pre-Erdogan) Turkey. Think George Washington circa 1855.