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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-girl-martyr.htmlErdogan Tells a Weeping Girl, 6, Shed Receive Honors if Martyred
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | FEB. 26, 2018
ISTANBUL From a stage where he led a raucous rally exhorting Turks to support their soldiers in Syria, the Turkish president spotted a 6-year-old girl cadet in the crowd, dressed in military-style camouflage and wearing a maroon beret. Her lips trembling, she stood ramrod-straight as she gave a salute.
Beckoned by the president, the girl was lifted into the air and toward the stage to meet with him. But she looked hesitant, and eventually began crying, as the president went on to say that she would be honored if she were killed in combat.
Video clips of the encounter between the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the first grader, Amine Tiras, ricocheted across the internet over the weekend. While Turkish news agencies focused on the girls emotions portraying her as brave and resolute some online commentators said she had been used as a political prop and called it inappropriate.
Her Turkish flag is in her pocket, Mr. Erdogan proclaimed after calling Amine onstage. If she becomes a martyr, God willing, she will be wrapped with it, he said. She is ready for everything, arent you?
Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)Matthew28
(1,798 posts)is the single biggest mistake humanity ever created. Sorry but I can't take it anymore...Pure idiocy.
whathehell
(29,096 posts).."Religion" is too broad. Try a little specificity.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Its a great honor and privilege because hes become a friend of mine to introduce President Erdogan of Turkey, Trump told reporters. Hes running a very difficult part of the world. Hes involved very, very strongly and, frankly, hes getting very high marks.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Wow. Trumpesque.
raging moderate
(4,311 posts)Poor little girl. In the clutches of a sociopath.
Initech
(100,107 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)Tony Bourdain went there about 10 years ago and everyone he met was so cool, relaxed fun, happy, etc. He saw some of the same people when he returned a few years ago with a different show and network and they were afraid to speak to him freely on camera. Erdogan is up there with the rest of the authoritarian rulers the Fucking Moron emulates. Sick, sick, sick!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Damn Erdogan for telling a little child that she would be killed in combat, and double damn her parents for making her look like a miniature soldier and exposing her to a situation that scared her and that she could not possibly understand.
Hekate
(90,846 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)no question he would do this if he could.
oasis
(49,426 posts)csziggy
(34,138 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It should be plenty enough for you, you worthless sack of shit.