Turkey 'demands deletion' of German video mocking Erdoğan

[iandhr]

Source: The Guardian.

The Turkish government has reportedly ordered the deletion from the internet of a German satirical video which pokes fun at President Recep Tayipp Erdoğan and condemns his human rights record.

Germany’s ambassador to Turkey, Martin Erdmann, was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry last week, according to German media, and asked to justify the contents of the short film made by Extra 3, the popular satirical television programme.

“We demanded that the programme be deleted,” a Turkish diplomat told Agence France-Presse news agency on condition of anonymity.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/29/turkey-german-video-mocking-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan?CMP=fb_gu

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Here is the song. With English translations. It is great.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Hey, we found a running mate for Trump!

I mean, since Mussolini is dead.

[fullautohotdog]

2. I think this is how I'd respond:

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

3. And this clown leads a fellow NATO country.

UGH

[MADem]

4. Well, that will ensure it is spread far and wide. What an idiot--doesn't know how the internet

works, I guess!

[SwankyXomb]

5. Streisand Effect in 3, 2, 1, ...

[Iggo]

6. Turkish gov't doesn't know how the internet works. (n/t)

[0rganism]

7. uh... one does not simply "delete" something from the internet

[geek tragedy]

8. Turkey is regressing into an authoritarian theocracy nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

9. Did the German government create the video? If not, then fuck you, Recep!

[Yo_Mama]

10. the press is quite pissed over the demand. Stinksauer.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/erdogan-fordert-stopp-von-ndr-satire-berlin-schweigt-14149904.html


The actual title and refrain of the song is Erdo-wie, Erdo-wo, Erdo-wahn. Erdo-how, Erdo-where, Erdo-When (Insanity).

The Germans fear that the deal involving the refugees - that Turkey will take them back - is allowing Erdogan to essentially blackmail Europe.

[xocet]

15. Erdo-wahn - to wit, Erdo-Wahn...as in Wahnsinn...(nonsense)...

Wahn sounds a lot like wann - however, the two are pronounced differently. One can see this from the IPA pronunciations available from Duden:

Wahn (delusion) has a "long" vowel:

Wahn, der

Betonung: Wahn
Lautschrift: (vaːn)

http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Wahn

Wann (when) has a "short" vowel:

wann

Betonung: wạnn
Lautschrift: (van)

http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/wann_dann_wenn

[Yo_Mama]

17. Right. I think this is both funny and clever.

I also think it will become a world hit due to Erdogan's insanity in trying to make a demand like that, so maybe we should add prophetic? Wahnsinn indeed!

I think the authors went with the wie-wo-wann/wahn to make a pun, but it is wahn. They want both meanings (how/where/when) and insane.

[xocet]

19. You are right. It is both funny and clever. n/t

[MowCowWhoHow III]

11. What Erdoğan thinks will happen.

What will actually happen.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. These tin pan leaders are oblivioius to idea of the arm's length arrangement

That exists in Western countries between government and the private entertainment sector. (for the most part).

Reminds me of Islamic leaders demanding that the US pull the YouTube video before Benghazi happened.

That is the blessing and the bane of the Internet, unfortunately for megalomaniacs.

[Yo_Mama]

18. I never thought of that before, but you are right. The internet is hard on these types.

Score one for the internet.

[bemildred]

13. Or what? More refugees? nt

[Sunlei]

14. funny. this 'company' did one mocking Obamas visit to Cuba too.

[Taitertots]

16. Awww, Erdogan does know how the internet works.

The things you try to silence will become the most prominent things about you. This will be the only things millions of people will know about Erdogan.