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2016-06-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Turk Pres Leaves US Amid Reports of Perceived Snub at Ali Funeral

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-06-11 09:43|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Daily Mail has this:

Erdogan and King Abdullah II of Jordan were scheduled to speak at the champion boxer's service on Friday, but was cut due to lack of program space.

'It's not about who they are, it's about the fact that we just don't have room on the program for them,' family spokesman Bob Gunnell said, adding that their representatives were 'gracious and understood' when told.

In addition, The Dogan news agency quoted presidential sources as saying funeral organizers refused to allow Erdogan to lay a cloth from the Kaaba on Ali’s coffin during the ceremony.

Erdogan and the Sunni cleric who heads Turkey’s religious affairs agency, Mehmet Gormez, had also wanted to give readings from the Quran but were not allowed to, it added.

Erdogan’s lightning visit to the US also caused consternation in Turkey, with Erdogan leaving the day after a bomb attack in Istanbul claimed by Kurdish militants that killed 11 people.

Posted by Pappy 2016-06-11 10:55|| 2016-06-11 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Ali was not worth the effort.

Posted by AlanC 2016-06-11 11:00|| 2016-06-11 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Dance like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
Out from the grave smites the Great Ali

Posted by Shipman 2016-06-11 12:33|| 2016-06-11 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Snub? Hah! It's not like we made him wait offshore for a couple months.

Posted by SteveS 2016-06-11 12:38|| 2016-06-11 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait two weeks and then tell Erdogan NO.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-06-11 15:33|| 2016-06-11 15:33|| Front Page Top

#6 It was the private funeral of a private citizen, however famous he might be. It is understandable that the family would prefer to involve people important to the person who died and his family, not heads of states from minor nations on the far side of the world. It is not clear to me that President Erdogan was even invited, rather than pushing his way in where he hadn't even been thought of.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-06-11 17:41|| 2016-06-11 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Birdybum is a real queen, isn't he?

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-06-11 17:49|| 2016-06-11 17:49|| Front Page Top

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