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Erdoğan Under Fire After Assuring Six-Year-Old Girl That She Can Be Martyred and Covered In Turkish Flag

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Screen Shot 2018-02-26 at 11.22.51 PM 1.pngTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is reviled throughout the world for his autocratic rule and denial of the most basic civil liberties.  He consolidated power by dismantling secular traditions and interjecting Islamic policies into the government. His latest outrage was caught on tape as he explains to a crying 6-year-old girl that she is expected to die as a martyr and covered with a Turkish flag at her death.  The video below captures Erdoğan’s Islamic extremism and his utter lack of empathy in dealing with the child.

Erdoğan was leading a rally in support of the Turkish operations in Syria when he noticed a 6-year-old girl cadet in the crowd in uniform.  He had the obviously scared girl brought to the stage and then used her as a bizarre prop.  He proclaimed:

“You see we have maroon berets, too. But a maroon beret does not cry. A special command, a colonel, a maroon beret… Wonderful! Her Turkish flag is in her pocket. If she becomes a martyr, [her coffin] will be covered with a flag, God willing. She is ready for everything, is not she?”

In most countries, a leader celebrating the notion of a dead little girl draped in a flag would be the end of his public service. However, Erdoğan has arrested or removed most of the independent journalists in Turkey.  He is now free to engage in this type of creepy exercise.

 

Erdoğan is infamous for his intolerance for any criticism or opposition.   We previously discussed the arrest of Mehmet Emin Altunses, 16, who allegedly committed the crime of “insulting” Erdoğan. calling people who use birth control “traitors” and saying Muslims discovered America, you are not allowed to be disrespectful or insulting in discussing Erdoğan. Then there was the prosecution of model and former Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac, 26, for criticizing Erdogan for quoting a few lines from a poem called the “Master’s Poem” from weekly Turkish satirical magazine Uykusuz. Erdoğan’s totalitarian measures have earned him the nickname “Buyuk Usta” (the Big Master). Even a joking reference to Gollum and Erdoğan is enough to land you in jail today in Turkey.
So now his citizens are expected to watch scenes like this. Only Erdoğan sees a beautiful little girl and fantasize her as a dead martyr covered in the little flag in her pocket.

 

 

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