Touchy, isn't he?
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan got all bent out of shape over being booed at a soccer stadium on Saturday night. Erdoğan left the arena before the opening match Saturday night after Galatasaray supporters started booing him when his arrival was announced on the stadium’s big screen. The protests intensified during a speech by TOKİ Chairman Erdoğan Bayraktar. Other ministers, football federation officials and some club chairmen joined the prime minister in leaving the stadium following the outcry.Awwwwww.... What a prima donna.
The fans present at the stadium were not the ones responsible for the protests, Erdoğan said. “The Galatasaray community also felt indisposed [by the events],” he said.
Galatasaray’s executive board convened in an extraordinary meeting at the Türk Telekom Arena on Sunday to discuss the incident. Chairman Adnan Polat told reporters after the meeting that the team was very sorry about the protests, daily Milliyet reported on its website.
“We do not consider [the protesters] to be Galatasaray fans,” Polat said, adding that all those who booed the prime minister would be identified using recordings from the arena’s 200 security cameras and would not be allowed to enter the stadium in the future. The chairman also asked the prime minister’s forgiveness for what happened in the Türk Telecom Arena.
Labels: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:25 PM
2 Comments:
I'd say Turkey's freedom of expression rises to the levels expected of societies in Europe, no?
Islamists have no real tolerance for ridicule... I would say in Erdogan's case, what comes around, goes around.
Prima donna, indeed. Heh
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