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2014-08-09 The Grand Turk

Outcry as Erdogan tells female reporter to 'know your place'

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 These fok's should have been suspended from NATO and cut off long ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-09 02:45|| 2014-08-09 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 This guys sees himself as the new Caliph.

Posted by Paul D 2014-08-09 05:42|| 2014-08-09 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder what olde Rantburg ummm, associate Murat thinks about the new Turkey?

Posted by Shipman 2014-08-09 06:09|| 2014-08-09 06:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Murat may be clamped in irons by this time. "Know your place" applies to more than just reporters in the Islamist world.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-09 06:54|| 2014-08-09 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Its a shame the US will not back the military in a coup.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-09 06:54|| 2014-08-09 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Isn't this the same approach that the Obama administration takes with 'uppity' reporters? Besides bugging their computers and sicking the IRS on them?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-09 08:53|| 2014-08-09 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Wonder what olde Rantburg ummm, associate Murat thinks about the new Turkey?

Poor Murat accepted a programming job in England or something after he left the army, discharged early, if I recall correctly, for an infected blister. But he'd admitted all along that he really wasn't military material, and Turkish universal conscription was foolish not to exempt him as not worth the effort.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-09 09:24|| 2014-08-09 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ...infected blister ?

The "blister" is attending independent school by now no doubt.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-09 09:29|| 2014-08-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#9 That was a different Rantburg ummm, associate. Greek instead of Turkish. Frank's special friend. :)

Posted by Shipman 2014-08-09 15:52|| 2014-08-09 15:52|| Front Page Top

#10 A*&s

Posted by Frank G on the road 2014-08-09 17:31|| 2014-08-09 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Turkish universal conscription was foolish not to exempt him as not worth the effort.

If you're going to have universal conscription, it's probably not a good idea or fair to everyone else to discharge people for being [word redacted].

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-09 17:36|| 2014-08-09 17:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Erdogan jailed the military officers who were most likely to challenge him. Morsi wasn't able to accomplish that. Now Erdogan is working on jailing the police who investigated government corruption.

Posted by Odysseus 2014-08-09 18:32|| 2014-08-09 18:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Now Erdogan is working on jailing the police who investigated government corruption.
Posted by Odysseus

If Erdogan had a proper Attorney General who could exercise prosecutorial descretion, he'd have no need to be jailing police officers.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-09 20:48|| 2014-08-09 20:48|| Front Page Top

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