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Advisor To Turkish Prime Minister Kicks Protester, Takes Sick Leave For Leg Pain

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For those curious how much further into banana status the "developed" world may further drop, look no further than Turkey which is rapidly becoming the case study of banana governance par excellence.

Last Wednesday, PM Recep Erdogan (who has already served the maximum three terms as prime minister and is expected to run for president in August) visited the coal mine in the western town of Soma where 282 miners were killed in a tragic mining accident which also was the country's worst mining disaster. But if the purpose of his visit was political and to generate empathy brownie points with the local population, things quickly turned sour after angry protesters heckled Erdogan and scuffles broke out between demonstrators and police in Soma, forcing the Turkish leader to take refuge in a supermarket before being driven off in a black vehicle.

What happened next was shocking: according to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet a protester kicked a vehicle in Erdogan's convoy, prompting the special forces police to jump in and force the man to the ground. Then Yusuf Yerkel, an advisor to the Rukish prime minister, kicked the protester "three or four times," the paper said. Unfortunately for Yerkel, the moment was caught on video and immediately made the rounds on recently unbanned Twitter.

As Haaretz reports Twitter was quickly abuzz with posts condemning Yerkel's action and an opposition party demanded an explanation for it.

"Do his responsibilities include beating up and kicking protesters or citizens? On which legal grounds was he given this authority?" lawmaker Ugur Bayraktutan asked in a question submitted to parliament for the government to answer. The prime minister's office distanced itself from the incident, with one official saying the issue was Yerkel's "own personal matter."

But that's not the punchline.

What was the proverbial cherry on top is that yesterday Yerkel "went on sick leave due to soft tissue trauma he sustained in his right leg. According to the report in Hurriyet an Ankara hospital granted Yerkel a week of sick leave to recover from his injuries."

So let that be a lesson to you: the next time you kick protesters already manhandled by angry cops, be prepared to reap the soft-tissue consequences. And if doing so in the US, be sure to have Obamacare for when the doctor invoice with many zeros comes in the mail.

 

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Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:12 | 4777555 Haus-Targaryen
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I laughed. 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:14 | 4777572 Yes We Can. But...
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The protestor has taken leave for face pain.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:18 | 4777585 Arius
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no, thats Turkey ... never in the US

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:21 | 4777592 Joe Davola
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They must have the same writers as our VP:  ...Yerkel's "own personal matter."

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:34 | 4777656 Manthong
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How dare you hit my good drop kick foot with your face?

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:37 | 4777664 outamyeffinway
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Watching some vidoes of the event I have some advice: Do not use a soldier to balance yourself while you kick the President's motorcade. Just a thought.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:05 | 4777769 Wolferl
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Since when is Turkey part of the developed world? Ever been to this third world country?

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:39 | 4777868 Miles Ahead
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Yes.  Have you?  Prolly not.

Ever been to Detroit?  Camden?  Philly? Stockton? Chicago?  The Bronx? Youngstown, Canton, ... forget it.  Ever been to "America"?

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:43 | 4777883 svayambhu108
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Voodoo

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:08 | 4778201 dontgoforit
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Dancin' With the Czars.

Wed, 05/21/2014 - 17:02 | 4782623 Monty Burns
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Ever been to Detroit?  Camden?  Philly? Stockton? Chicago?  The Bronx? Youngstown....?

 

These places are not America. They're Africa.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:41 | 4777673 Bananamerican
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"He went full 3rd world"

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 16:43 | 4778773 whoflungdung
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Was that Yerkel the Turkel ??

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:21 | 4777603 ParkAveFlasher
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How base, to not have enough fiat pumped into the system to reallocate the kicking duties to highly-pensioned, well-trained, properly-equipped, deeply-ranked security personnel.  Savages.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:34 | 4777858 caconhma
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Turkey is a very respected NATO member. It also a strong supporter of US policies in Syria by provided all necessary supports to all Islamic terrorists and thugs.

The USA, NATO, and Israel must be very proud having such good friend and supporter. It is a total disgrace that Turkey has not been yet accepted into EU.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:10 | 4778215 f16hoser
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You're right; Turkey is a big fan of the US and her fucked-up policies. Just the other day, Turkey's PM was recorded saying they would provide a "False Flag" in Syria so the West could invade. Infact, it was John Kerry pushing them to do it. So, what is your point???

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:25 | 4777624 pods
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Yet another area of the world that is ripping at the seams.

What is there like 20 or so places where things are going south, and fast?

pods

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:39 | 4777668 Wannabee
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@pods,
World stage strikingly similar to whack-a-mole, that's for sure.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:47 | 4777680 Dr. Engali
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I hear things aren't going so bad in Antarctica. Can't get any further south than that.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:09 | 4777781 CPL
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20?  Anywhere there is a central bank is the qualification today and it's not a coincidence.

 

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:11 | 4778216 dontgoforit
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It's a CIA fucking wet dream!

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:20 | 4777598 Relentless101
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Isn't that just a bruise? LOL

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:37 | 4777661 Agent P
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That's 'cause he's a karate man, and a karate man bruises on the inside.  

 

It ain't cool being no jive Turkish protester this close to Thanksgiving....Yeah.

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:13 | 4777565 Schmuck Raker
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I can't get enough of this story. Thanks for bumping it, Tyler.

When is the next election in Turkey? LOL

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:14 | 4777567 Atomizer
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Can we borrow your air strip runway? Let me kick you in the nuts to make sure you understand my request.

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:14 | 4777568 Dr. Engali
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He needs to take a lesson from the U.S citizenry and sue the protester for pain and suffering.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:46 | 4777683 Quus Ant
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Protester should get jailtime.  Women and children first. 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:14 | 4777570 agstacks
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Note to politicians- Better stick to strongly worded statements.  Leave the police to stomp down the citizenry.  What a pansy.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:20 | 4777593 NotApplicable
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I want to see him try it without the accompanying thugs. Someone might teach him the danger of wearing a necktie.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:41 | 4778350 Flagit
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This little pansy will gas himself out in the first 60 seconds with a flurry of weak punches and then be too tired to stand, much less defend himself.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:16 | 4777575 The Merovingian
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It's an ancient Turkish greeting custom ...

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:23 | 4777616 l8apex
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I am half Turkish and I approve this message...

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:17 | 4777580 SWCroaker
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He really failed when it came to the pepper spray skills test.   Piker kicked with his own leg; duh.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:22 | 4777604 Azannoth
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No, no no no, .. you all got this the wrong way. See the 2 cops are simply helping the poor man stand up after he "unfortunately" fell to the ground while the guy in the suit is errr giving him his leg to ... strut himself up ... or something.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:22 | 4777607 Sudden Debt
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It was a natural reaction. When a man is down, you kick him... over... and over again...

Why would somebody elect a politician if he would actually help the man up and talk to him?

PAIN!!!

LET THEM FEEL PAIN SO THEY REALIZE PAYING TAXES AND KEEP THEIR MOUTH SHUT IS THE EASY THING TO DO!!!

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:22 | 4777610 taketheredpill
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Dick Cheney has offered to help the protestor draft a letter of apology.

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:22 | 4777614 BrosephStiglitz
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Further proof that the divide between mobsters and government is narrowing.

Hilarious article though. 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:24 | 4777620 JustObserving
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It's like Obama saying that he has to play golf everyday to recover from the trauma of droning women and children and wedding parties.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:31 | 4777644 Yen Cross
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    Should read like this: "And if doing so in the US, be sure to have Obamacare for when the doctor invoice with many zeros comes in the mail, after your .gov required (5) cavity searches an MRI, and x-rays. (Because you were surely hiding something from your masters)

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:31 | 4777645 ShrNfr
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I got a kick out of this story.

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:54 | 4777712 Quus Ant
Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:32 | 4777651 PopKorni
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Türkiye çok güzel bir ülkedir

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:00 | 4777753 Conax
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Turkey very good  ? ? ?

Help me out here..

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:30 | 4777846 ShrNfr
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"Turkey is a beautiful country" - extra points for finding that font.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:36 | 4777659 kchrisc
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Do Turks have, use, guillotines?!

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:38 | 4777665 highly debtful
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You really, really, REALLY can't make this stuff up. Maybe we simply need another globe. Repopuplated with less burlesque people.  

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:14 | 4778234 dontgoforit
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Utopia.  Found it, but it's nowheresville, man.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:48 | 4777705 MeMongo
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Now if somebody kicked hillary in the titties....sheet that would be funny:-)

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:50 | 4777710 scraping_by
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Reminds me of the young girl at Occupy Wall Street who assaulted an NYPD cop by repeatedly smashing her face into the sole of his boot. Except no video.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:09 | 4777780 Perfecthedge
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Did the Cop sue her? You know, for damaging his good boots and stuff.  Should have shown her, commie bastards, plastering themselves at Wall Streets noble places.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:50 | 4777714 WhiteHose
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The kicker looks like an NFL place kicker during a slow motion field goal attempt, except for the suit, the tie, the shoes, and being a fuckin wimp! wtf!

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:56 | 4777733 Squid Viscous
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I was thinking more DeNiro from Goodfellas...

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 11:58 | 4777738 Canucklehead
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... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:03 | 4777762 Smegley Wanxalot
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He's probably qualified to receive hazard pay also, and a bonus. 

And if he were working with the IRS or VA, he'd get promoted too.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:06 | 4777770 Conax
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If you want to be a 'man of the people' sometimes you have to hold them down and kick them 3 or 4 times..

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:07 | 4777772 Platinum
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He was just attempting to connect with the people by starting a spirited mosh pit.

"I don't owe you anything! I don't owe you anything!"

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:07 | 4777775 Son of Captain Nemo
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Yeah I can see Vicky off-her-"Noodleman", Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett and "Moosh" doing that to heckler or an undesirable independent journalist who doesn't follow the script?...

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:11 | 4777788 Perfecthedge
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Aren't other governments kicking it's citizens with stupid policies? Physical and emotional pain - no difference there. At least here you can see Politicians as they really are: scum.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:21 | 4777827 Malachi Constant
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Yerkel the Turkel

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:22 | 4777831 timmeh
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bullish!

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:32 | 4777852 Bastiat
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Buy on the ground should have taken his supporting knee out--then he'd have a reason to go on sick leave.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 12:56 | 4777935 Seize Mars
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Senator Carl Levin does the same thing, he just subcontracts the actual brutality.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 13:13 | 4777985 ConManipulation
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Is that Cyndi Lauper on her first album cover?

http://flyingbuttresses.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/07_cyndi_lauper.jpg

 

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 13:17 | 4778009 novictim
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Recall: Turkey came "that *" close to becoming part of the EU!  

That was one bullet-dodge we can all be grateful for.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:08 | 4778019 Obamanism
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CNN Turkey: How can we make this guy look good? The protester just lost 2 relatives and 5 friends in the mining disater, so we cannot class him as the "Occupy Hippy " protester. The politician is going places but what he has done is not doing any thing for his career. I know lets get some sympathy for the guy, get him on the phone and tell him to get to a doctor and get a note that he is injured and needs to take time off work.

Change the headline "Politician criticaly injured while attacking  protestor "

Run with the headline "Politician criticaly injured while defending his boss"

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 13:36 | 4778065 hot sauce technician
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Erdogan is a reactionary blockhead. Doesn't help that he's an Islamist either. Schmuck wanted (and still wants) apologies to and generous compensation for families of the ex-cons and neo-nazis who decided that they can invade territorial waters of a sovereign country with impunity.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 13:44 | 4778090 Dr. Destructo
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That advisor is such a coward for kicking that protester the two soldiers were holding down.

Now if he were to engage in bare-knuckle boxing with him that would be a different story -but the vast majority of politicians are cowardly shits that will only act aggressively in relative safe conditions no matter where they are in the world.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 13:46 | 4778110 Joe A
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The protester of course should be sued for causing the pain.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:33 | 4778324 Itchy and Scratchy
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Abuse of Turkeys. Call the S.P.C.A.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 14:33 | 4778326 The Most Intere...
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So if somebody wants retribution they know he won't be at work.  Hopefully this will help narrow it down for someone.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 15:31 | 4778523 andyupnorth
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The polical elites will not tolerate any protesting from the people who voted them into power.

More so, the friends of the political elites will not tolerate any protesting from the people who voted their friends into power.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 21:43 | 4779689 Pee Wee
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What would we be talking about if another protestor saw that aggression and shot Yerkel in the head.

Closet aggression comes out all at once and the rich bureaucrats and their pissboys are earning targets in spades.

What could possibly go wrong.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 23:28 | 4779948 Seize Mars
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Laces Out!!!

Wed, 05/21/2014 - 07:34 | 4780490 danepol
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News just in ... Edrogan blames the Jews for the coal mine disaster. No I'm not kidding. Guess he learned from Borat who blamed them for the destruction of the dinosaurs.

Wed, 05/21/2014 - 17:04 | 4782630 RangerRiley
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ZH -- whatssup?

Wed, 05/21/2014 - 17:07 | 4782636 RangerRiley
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i hate ZH

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