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Advisor To Turkish Prime Minister Kicks Protester, Takes Sick Leave For Leg Pain
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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I laughed.
The protestor has taken leave for face pain.
no, thats Turkey ... never in the US
They must have the same writers as our VP: ...Yerkel's "own personal matter."
How dare you hit my good drop kick foot with your face?
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.
Since when is Turkey part of the developed world? Ever been to this third world country?
Yes. Have you? Prolly not.
Ever been to Detroit? Camden? Philly? Stockton? Chicago? The Bronx? Youngstown, Canton, ... forget it. Ever been to "America"?
Voodoo
Dancin' With the Czars.
Ever been to Detroit? Camden? Philly? Stockton? Chicago? The Bronx? Youngstown....?
These places are not America. They're Africa.
"He went full 3rd world"
Was that Yerkel the Turkel ??
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.
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.
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???
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
@pods,
World stage strikingly similar to whack-a-mole, that's for sure.
I hear things aren't going so bad in Antarctica. Can't get any further south than that.
20? Anywhere there is a central bank is the qualification today and it's not a coincidence.
It's a CIA fucking wet dream!
Isn't that just a bruise? LOL
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.
I can't get enough of this story. Thanks for bumping it, Tyler.
When is the next election in Turkey? LOL
Can we borrow your air strip runway? Let me kick you in the nuts to make sure you understand my request.
He needs to take a lesson from the U.S citizenry and sue the protester for pain and suffering.
Protester should get jailtime. Women and children first.
Note to politicians- Better stick to strongly worded statements. Leave the police to stomp down the citizenry. What a pansy.
I want to see him try it without the accompanying thugs. Someone might teach him the danger of wearing a necktie.
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.
It's an ancient Turkish greeting custom ...
I am half Turkish and I approve this message...
He really failed when it came to the pepper spray skills test. Piker kicked with his own leg; duh.
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.
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!!!
Dick Cheney has offered to help the protestor draft a letter of apology.
Further proof that the divide between mobsters and government is narrowing.
Hilarious article though.
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.
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)
I got a kick out of this story.
Dino said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huKSm0tAvhs
Türkiye çok güzel bir ülkedir
Turkey very good ? ? ?
Help me out here..
"Turkey is a beautiful country" - extra points for finding that font.
Do Turks have, use, guillotines?!
You really, really, REALLY can't make this stuff up. Maybe we simply need another globe. Repopuplated with less burlesque people.
Utopia. Found it, but it's nowheresville, man.
Now if somebody kicked hillary in the titties....sheet that would be funny:-)
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.
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.
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!
I was thinking more DeNiro from Goodfellas...
... 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
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.
If you want to be a 'man of the people' sometimes you have to hold them down and kick them 3 or 4 times..
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!"
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?...
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.
Yerkel the Turkel
bullish!
Buy on the ground should have taken his supporting knee out--then he'd have a reason to go on sick leave.
Senator Carl Levin does the same thing, he just subcontracts the actual brutality.
Is that Cyndi Lauper on her first album cover?
http://flyingbuttresses.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/07_cyndi_lauper.jpg
Recall: Turkey came "that *" close to becoming part of the EU!
That was one bullet-dodge we can all be grateful for.
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"
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.
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.
The protester of course should be sued for causing the pain.
Abuse of Turkeys. Call the S.P.C.A.
So if somebody wants retribution they know he won't be at work. Hopefully this will help narrow it down for someone.
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.
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.
Laces Out!!!
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.
ZH -- whatssup?
i hate ZH