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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has breakfast with Shirley Temper

President Obama's Best Friend Forever, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had breakfast on Sunday with Shirley Temper, the 12-year old 'Palestinian' girl who has been seen in several videos trying to provoke IDF troops. Temper (real name, Ahed Tamimi) is in Turkey to accept an award from the city of Istanbul (Hat Tip: Joshua I).

Erdoğan received Tamimi and her mother, Neriman Tamimi, at his hotel in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa. Erdoğan spoke with the pair for a while and gave several gifts to the family.

Speaking to Anatolia news agency after the breakfast, Ahed Tamimi said she had had a breakfast with a prime minister for the first time in her life.

"I thanked Prime Minister Erdoğan for his hospitality and his support for Palestine," she said.

Tamimi was awarded with the "Handala Courage Award" in Istanbul on Dec. 26.

Visiting Turkey as a guest of Istanbul’s Başakşehir Municipality, the girl attended a series of events ahead of the award ceremony and opened an art exhibition titled "Being a child in Palestine.”

During the ceremony, she thanked Turkish children for welcoming her while also calling on Palestinian children to stand tall, while also saying she brandished her fist at Israeli soldiers in the thought that she could make Palestine free.

Tamimi also told the agency that she said she would like to become a lawyer in order to contribute to the Palestinian issue.

I wonder what it's like to be obsessed with the existence of another country that is not one's own.... 

Labels: Palestinian children, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish obsession with Israel

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:51 PM