Erdogan Tells a Weeping Girl, 6, She'd Receive Honors if Martyred (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-girl-martyr.html
Erdogan Tells a Weeping Girl, 6, She’d Receive Honors if Martyred
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | FEB. 26, 2018

ISTANBUL — From a stage where he led a raucous rally exhorting Turks to support their soldiers in Syria, the Turkish president spotted a 6-year-old girl cadet in the crowd, dressed in military-style camouflage and wearing a maroon beret. Her lips trembling, she stood ramrod-straight as she gave a salute.

Beckoned by the president, the girl was lifted into the air and toward the stage to meet with him. But she looked hesitant, and eventually began crying, as the president went on to say that she would be honored if she were killed in combat.

Video clips of the encounter between the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the first grader, Amine Tiras, ricocheted across the internet over the weekend. While Turkish news agencies focused on the girl’s emotions — portraying her as brave and resolute — some online commentators said she had been used as a political prop and called it inappropriate.

“Her Turkish flag is in her pocket,” Mr. Erdogan proclaimed after calling Amine onstage. “If she becomes a martyr, God willing, she will be wrapped with it,” he said. “She is ready for everything, aren’t you?”

[Solly Mack]

1. Damn

[Matthew28]

2. Religion

is the single biggest mistake humanity ever created. Sorry but I can't take it anymore...Pure idiocy.

[whathehell]

6. Um, no.

.."Religion" is too broad. Try a little specificity.

[EleanorR]

16. trump-"Its a great honor and privilege because hes become a friend of mine"

“It’s a great honor and privilege — because he’s become a friend of mine — to introduce President Erdogan of Turkey,” Trump told reporters. “He’s running a very difficult part of the world. He’s involved very, very strongly and, frankly, he’s getting very high marks.”

[elehhhhna]

3. This six year old would be honored to die for me.

Wow. Trumpesque.

[raging moderate]

4. Look at his conniving face. He is his own religion.

Poor little girl. In the clutches of a sociopath.

[Initech]

5. I see Putin's troll army is far reaching.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I feel badly for the Turkish people.

Tony Bourdain went there about 10 years ago and everyone he met was so cool, relaxed fun, happy, etc. He saw some of the same people when he returned a few years ago with a different show and network and they were afraid to speak to him freely on camera. Erdogan is up there with the rest of the authoritarian rulers the Fucking Moron emulates. Sick, sick, sick!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Sick fuck

[procon]

9. Poor little sacrificial lamb.

Damn Erdogan for telling a little child that she would be killed in combat, and double damn her parents for making her look like a miniature soldier and exposing her to a situation that scared her and that she could not possibly understand.

[Hekate]

10. Poor little kid. Somehow I feel Trump would do the same. nt

[JI7]

15. he is already trying to push Duterte's policy of killing drug users

no question he would do this if he could.

[oasis]

11. I guess there could be a bigger shithead than Trump. nt

[csziggy]

12. Reminds me of Little Miss Flint and Trump

https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2016/09/15/little-miss-flint-meets-donald-trump-and-her-face-sums-up-this-entire-election

[gratuitous]

13. If martyrdom's good enough for a scared 6-year-old, Recep

It should be plenty enough for you, you worthless sack of shit.

[JI7]

14. scum of the earth