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Israel court releases Turks after Jerusalem ‘incident’
2017-12-24
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli court ordered the release from custody Saturday of three Ottoman Turkish tourists a day after they were tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
over a confrontation with police at a Jerusalem holy site.

Police said the three were detained on Friday for being "involved in an incident in Jerusalem’s Old City after Friday prayers on the Temple Mount", the Jewish term for the al-Aqsa mosque compound.

They were arrested for attacking a police officer and resisting arrest.

But Jerusalem magistrates’ court ordered their release in a hearing late Saturday, denying a police request to extend their detention by four days, AFP news hounds said.

"The court rejected the police’s argument which is basically that they were liable to interfere with the police investigation, and also that they pose a threat to the general community," their lawyer Nick Kaufman told AFP after the hearing.

"It was obvious that this case was a politically charged case, and the judge released them."

A video circulating on social media shows a number of men wearing red shirts with the Ottoman Turkish flag scuffling with police in the Old City.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
Anadolu said two of the three hold dual Ottoman Turkish and Belgian citizenship.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Nicely done, Zenobia F.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-24 22:03  

#3  "Of Turkish I've less than a smatterin' --
Mark "shapely sultana," eh, Maturin? --
But, loading the smashers
With fat English rashers,
By God, we shall give 'em a batterin'!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-12-24 21:35  

#2  Good one ZF.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-12-24 17:42  

#1  Totally OT, but... Turkey (and I'm goin' full Aubrey here).

A honeymoon suite at the Marriot:
Frau Merkel arrives in her chariot.
Top kapo banana
Meets shapely sultana
Endowed with a new janissariat.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-12-24 17:37  

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