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Thursday, 30 September 2010
Ataturk's rate of rotation in his grave is increasing
 As if the systematic dismantling of his reforms that allowed Turkey to temporarily rise out of the morass of Islamic malaise wasn't enough, now there comes word that his yacht was used for prostitution. From Arab News: ANKARA: Turkey's government has seized the one-time state yacht of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, following media reports that a vice ring had used the vessel to throw sex parties with prostitutes. Eight women and two underage girls, all of whom were believed to be prostitutes, were taken for health checks after authorities in the Mediterranean city of Antalya confiscated the 136-meter Savarona, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. Eight people, including two women, remain in custody, it said. The Savarona had been leased to a businessman by the Finance Ministry. "I gave the necessary instructions for the cancellation of the ship's lease," Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek told Anatolian, adding the Culture Ministry should now take ownership of the vessel. "If the company does not agree on the cancellation of the ship's license, we will take the case to court and make the effort to have it annulled by a court ruling." Anatolian said leaders of the sex-ring charged clients between $3,000 and $10,000 for a night with the prostitutes, who came from Russia and Ukraine. The fact that they're kufirs probably explains why this article doesn't mention criminal charges, only that the yacht would no longer be leased to the unnamed businessman. Ataturk, a war hero who founded Turkey from the ashes of the defeated Ottoman Empire, is Turkey's most respected figure. Statues and portraits of the warrior statesman are ubiquitous, and insults to his memory are punishable with a jail sentence. [...] "The prostitution scandal on the ship is a major impertinence to the memory of Ataturk," Sevigen said. Would it be too conspiratorial to wonder whether Turkish President Abdullah G�l, Prime Minister Erdogan, and other religiously-motivated politicians purposely allowed the yacht to be used by the unnamed businessman for prostitution, and then publicized the scandal, in order to sully the memory of Ataturk, to rub his face in the dirt a little? No, that's just idle chit-chat. Posted on 09/30/2010 12:53 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
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30 Sep 2010
 Hugh Fitzgerald
I was sitting on a bench, outside a mosque -- Blue?�Sulaimanniya?�-- in Istanbul�in 2000. I observed a perfectly respectable Russian girl, sitting on a nearby bench, and reading a respectable book, when she was approached by a Turk who said something I could not catch, and the girl then jumped up, yelling at the top of her lungs "Poshol von" ( "Beat it" or, in this context, "Get away from me." ) To him, she was just one more "natasha, " as the Turks call Infidel Russian girls who, to them, are all of easy virtue. To the primitive mind of the passing unturbaned Turk, the girl quietly reading a book had to have been a paid lady, and open for business. I enjoyed seeing how fast he ran away. 30 Sep 2010
reactionry Ataturk & Lemmon,
Rotate In Peace
Or: A Crimson Tide In
The Affairs Of Men
The Clod Couple
Does they spins in widdershins
Or sleeps without no dirt nap kins?
- From Couch-Bear Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsoil
30 Sep 2010
reactionry Liam Neeson Is On A Roll
-sigh - If only the following wasn't something just Taken from the world of cinema. Still, it's a more realistic strategy than abseiling with paintball guns. It should be that if you have to ask about abducting young girls aboard a yacht, you won't be able to afford the consequences.
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