Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

[Alexandros]

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Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

Monday, August 17, 2009

ANKARA - Agence France-Presse

A Turkish court Sunday ordered the expulsion of a teenaged British tourist for "insulting" the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Police detained the 19-year-old after he climbed on a monument of Atatürk in the Aegean resort of Marmaris, undressed and made "inappropriate" gestures, the report said.

The tourist, whose name was not disclosed, was handed over to a court, which released him after ruling that he should be expelled and banned from entering the country for five years, it said.

Turkey has a special law stipulating jail terms for insulting the much-revered Atatürk, who founded modern, secular Turkey on the ashes of the Ottoman empire in 1923 and served as its president until his death in 1938

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[Crimson Glow]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

Pssst. Ataturk was gay. He would have LOVED a young boy getting undressed and making inappropriate gestures at him. Why all the fuss?

[Joseph]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

Pssst. Ataturk was gay. He would have LOVED a young boy getting undressed and making inappropriate gestures at him. Why all the fuss?

And if the boy had a bottle of raki, forget about it!

[Alexandros]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

Pssst. Ataturk was gay. He would have LOVED a young boy getting undressed and making inappropriate gestures at him. Why all the fuss?

Gay?I thought Ataturk was bi-sexual.

[Pazooki]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

LOL lava are

[Jam]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

It is ridicilous to expel people because of that. I see Turks insulting Germans, Germany and Christianity everyday. The word "Gavur" that Turks used for Armenians is being used also for Germans.

If Germany would react the same way Turkey did there wouldn't be 2 million Turks living in Germany.

[jgk3]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

How old are you scrutel? What kind of comment is that?

[Alevigirl88]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

It is ridicilous to expel people because of that. I see Turks insulting Germans, Germany and Christianity everyday. The word "Gavur" that Turks used for Armenians is being used also for Germans.

If Germany would react the same way Turkey did there wouldn't be 2 million Turks living in Germany.

Indeed...

[jgk3]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

keep insulting ataturk it would make openmidned agaist you.. i have armenian friends they hate young turks and nationalists they swear grey wolves but they have never insulted ataturk.. if they do i would never talk them.

This last comment also confused me... Why should Armenians have respect for Ataturk anymore than they have respect for Talaat or Enver? He just chowed down on non-Turkish people and culture after the dirty job of the genocide was largely completed by 1922. And didn't the cloud of death over the Kurds in Turkey begin under him?

[jgk3]

Re: Turkey expels British tourist for 'insulting' Atatürk

The policy of de-Armenianization of Western Armenia continued well after 1918. It was just the large chunk, the indisputable Armenian majority areas that were cut down during the days of the CUP.

Also, many historically Armenian majorty regions in Eastern Armenia continued to be pillaged and genocided by Muslim Tatars (Azeri Turks), and this continued even in the early years of Soviet rule in placed like Nakhichevan, where the historical majority of Armenians was quickly reduced to 15% by 1926, and eventually, 0% (today).