Brickbat: Have You Ever Been in a Turkish Prison?

Mehmet Emin Altunses faces up to four years in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Altunses was arrested after a rally where he accused Erdogan and his government of being corrupt.

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[Snark Plissken]

Best headline ever, Chuck.

Also, this is a 16 year old kid being charged.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Attaaaaack waaaaaaatch!

[Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt]

Release the internet Bashi-bazouks!

[UnCivilServant]

Gotta admire the ingenuity there, proving he's not a corrupt tyrant by acting like a corrupt tyrant, genius!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

And Turkey wants in the EU.

Mind you, European nations would bend over backwards to smother them with all their PC nonsense.

[Ted S.]

Like the idea that you're some sort of horrid racist xenophobe if you oppose Turkish membership in the EU.

BTW, did you see that the last of the Mighty Magyars of the 50s died over the weekend?

[Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt]

Terrifying horse borne raiders of the 850s lived that long?!

[Bee Tagger]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

And here he thought he had a pretty unpunnable name.

[Rich]

"Everyone must respect the office of president whoever he is."

So, if the kid had said "Although I greatly respect the office of president, Erdogan is the chief of theft, bribery and corruption" he wouldn't have been arrested?

[Scarecrow Repair]

More to the point, Erdogan's corruption and especially his pushing this bullshit arrest itself disgrace the office of the president.

Would he regrace the office of the president if he were to resign or to send himself to prison for four years?

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