Current Events > Turkish president tells crying girl she'll be honored if she becomes a martyr

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5435645/Turkish-President-condemned-child-martyrdom-comments.html

The Turkish president has appeared in a bizarre video in which he assures a sobbing child in military uniform that she would get state honours if killed while fighting.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was heard commenting: 'If she's martyred, they'll lay a flag on her,' at a televised congress of his AK party.

He made the comment - on live television - in front of cheering supporters who urged him to carry on with the military offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria's northern Afrin region.

Critics have condemned his action as the same sort of child abuse for propaganda purposes as carried out by Islamic State fighters.

In the event the young girl - estimated to be about five years old - dressed as a soldier seems to catch the attention of Mr Erdogan, who then invites her to the stage, the BBC reported.

'Look what you see here! Girl, what are you doing here? We have our maroon berets here, but maroon berets never cry,' he told her, referring to the beret worn by the Turkish Special Operations Forces.

Just cultural differences, I'm sure.
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I know all there is to know about the crying game.

remember the secular turkey like 15 years ago

yeah i miss them
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What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

@YOUHAVENOHOPE
@Dash_Harber
@K181
@scar_the_1
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Very_Unreliable posted...

What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

"were" is the key in that

Turkey was a secular European country. Not anymore.
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Doom_Art posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

"were" is the key in that

Turkey was a secular European country. Not anymore.

No they never were sorry... ://///
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also dont forget Trump idolizes him

Very_Unreliable posted...

Doom_Art posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

"were" is the key in that

Turkey was a secular European country. Not anymore.

No they never were sorry... ://///

Factually wrong
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Islam does not tolerate secular policies. It was just a matter of time given a Muslim majority nation.

And holy fuck he looks like a creep.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/26/12/499A806800000578-5435645-image-a-42_1519646940712.jpg

Calling it now, dude is a kid diddler.
Kissing her, groping her, all on tv.

What the fuck is wrong with Turkey?
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Boy this Erdogan fellow...not good
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military fetishism is the worst
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This is the same guy who claims the international community should do something about the war crimes in Syria while he's carrying on his own invasion in the country to wipe out the Kurds.

Hate those cultural differences tho!


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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Islam does not tolerate secular policies. It was just a matter of time given a Muslim majority nation.

And holy fuck he looks like a creep.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/26/12/499A806800000578-5435645-image-a-42_1519646940712.jpg

Calling it now, dude is a kid diddler.
Kissing her, groping her, all on tv.

What the fuck is wrong with Turkey?

hes the turkish version of biden
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

What the fuck is wrong with Turkey?

Lots of things, like the Armenian genocide that totally didn't happen so don't bring it up around Turks, and the totally legitimate coup a few years ago that was in no way orchestrated to give their leader more power.

Very_Unreliable posted...

What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

@YOUHAVENOHOPE
@Dash_Harber
@K181
@scar_the_1

So you lack reading comprehension? Don't make up talking points for other people, smart guy.
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K181 posted...

So you lack reading comprehension? Don't make up talking points for other people, smart guy.

@Reza_Alan and @Cenk_Uygur all used to hark on about how moderate Islam exists in Indonesia and Turkey
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/26/12/499A806800000578-5435645-image-a-42_1519646940712.jpg

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Modern-day Turkey is an absolute disgrace to Atatrk's legacy
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Putin, Erdogan, Duterte, Trump

why is it that authoritarian folks rally behind old creepy lookin/acting dudes

Give me some young, handsome, articulate (wannabe) dictators thnx
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Doom_Art posted...

Putin, Erdogan, Duterte, Trump

why is it that authoritarian folks rally behind old creepy lookin/acting dudes

Give me some young, handsome, articulate (wannabe) dictators thnx

Nice false equivalencies...

How is Trump or Duterte anything like any of them.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

or Duterte

Extrajudicial killings in the street and a climate similar to The Crucible where mere accusations are enough to prove guilt.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

or Duterte

Extrajudicial killings in the street and a climate similar to The Crucible where mere accusations are enough to prove guilt.

He's a little rough but his country is in bad shape and it's due to horrible degeneracy and drug smugglers...

But jeeesus comparing it to witch trials.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

But jeeesus comparing it to witch trials.

Yeah only like 20 people died in Salem, this is much worse.

He's a little rough

Oh fuck off.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

or Duterte

Extrajudicial killings in the street and a climate similar to The Crucible where mere accusations are enough to prove guilt.

He's a little rough but his country is in bad shape and it's due to horrible degeneracy and drug smugglers...

But jeeesus comparing it to witch trials.

Yeah because nothing is going to fix the state of his country like police-sponsored death squads, just like in Latin American countries.

I believe strongly in the mitigation of degeneracy in underdeveloped places.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

He's a little rough but his country is in bad shape and it's due to horrible degeneracy and drug smugglers...

While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

degeneracy

Maintaining rule of law is paramount to avoiding this, you fascist.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

I believe strongly in the mitigation of degeneracy in underdeveloped places.

Then do me a favor and take a trip to El Salvador and tell me how much better they were than in the 20th century.

Lol at people trying to derail the topic by bringing up leaders in non Islamic countries and shifting the focus from the broader context of how Turkey is just descending into the fundamentalist Islamic policies that plague Turkeys neighbors to the south.
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masticatingman posted...

Lol at people trying to derail the topic by bringing up leaders in non Islamic countries and shifting the focus from the broader context of how Turkey is just descending into the fundamentalist Islamic policies that plague Turkeys neighbors to the south.

They aren't "descending" into it; they are electing it willingly as always with muslims...
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

degeneracy

Maintaining rule of law is paramount to avoiding this, you fascist.

I think that's exactly what he's trying to achieve; without waiting for his lower leadership rife with corruption and degeneracy as w his population, to do the job.
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Where the fuck are that kids parents?
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american millennials are too lazy and entitled to become martyrs for their country -_-
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erdogan is a shitty authoritarian leader with a military fetish, much like some other world leaders today
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divot1338 posted...

Where the fuck are that kids parents?

Clapping cheerfully in the audience.
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divot1338 posted...

Where the fuck are that kids parents?

Sold her for 2 goats and a plot of poppies. I mean, she is clearly old enough to be married off. No younger than the wife of Mohammad.
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God this is so fucking weird.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

divot1338 posted...

Where the fuck are that kids parents?

Sold her for 2 goats and a plot of poppies. I mean, she is clearly old enough to be married off. No younger than the wife of Mohammad.

We seem to be in agreement on most things;

You don't think the suffering of the people in the Philippines due to muslim drug runners can be solved the way Duterte endeavors to solve it?
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Oh now I get it. I had Very_Unreliable on ignore. Gee I wonder why
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scar the 1 posted...

Oh now I get it. I had Very_Unreliable on ignore. Gee I wonder why

I mean you can go ahead and keep me there and make gamefaqs your lil echo chamber.
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Very_Unreliable posted...

muslim drug runners

l m a o

Over 80% of the country is Roman Catholic, just like Central America

but the bad guys are all "muslim drug runners"

OmegaShinkai posted...

Very_Unreliable posted...

muslim drug runners

l m a o

Over 80% of the country is Roman Catholic, just like Central America

but the bad guys are all "muslim drug runners"

ISIS made a lot of its money in the Philippines due to drug running; Duterte is actually fighting ISIS and has said so more than once...
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It's sad what Turkey became.
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Is Trump going to call and congratulate Erdogan for incorporating child soldiers into his army

Very_Unreliable posted...

What happened to all those people telling me they were just another secular European country?

@YOUHAVENOHOPE
@Dash_Harber
@K181
@scar_the_1

That's not what I said at all. I said your argument was dumb because Europe was never the unified, cultural fairytale land you made up in every definition. Maybe you misunderstood when I laughed you off as a troll.

My fiance and I are visiting Istanbul as part of our honeymoon this year. Can't wait.
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