Brickbat: Have You Ever Been in a Turkish Prison?

Charles Oliver | 1.12.2015 6:00 AM

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 10 years ago

Best headline ever, Chuck.

Also, this is a 16 year old kid being charged.
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

Attaaaaack waaaaaaatch!
1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt 10 years ago
  
  Release the internet Bashi-bazouks!
UnCivilServant 10 years ago

Gotta admire the ingenuity there, proving he's not a corrupt tyrant by acting like a corrupt tyrant, genius!
Rufus J. Firefly 10 years ago

And Turkey wants in the EU.

Mind you, European nations would bend over backwards to smother them with all their PC nonsense.
1. Ted S. 10 years ago
  
  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?
  1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt 10 years ago
    
    Terrifying horse borne raiders of the 850s lived that long?!
Bee Tagger 10 years ago

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

And here he thought he had a pretty unpunnable name.
Rich 10 years ago

"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?
1. Scarecrow Repair 10 years ago
  
  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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