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Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: Scunner on May 19, 2016, 20:08:16 PM

Title: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: Scunner on May 19, 2016, 20:08:16 PM

Boris Johnson has won a £1,000 prize for a rude poem about the Turkish president having sex with a goat.

The former mayor of London’s limerick, published by the Spectator as a rebuff to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s efforts to prosecute a German comedian’s offensive poem, also calls the president a “wānkerer”.

Full story at. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johnson-wins-most-offensive-erdogan-poem-competition

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: KKOB on May 19, 2016, 21:27:10 PM

Good ol' Boris. As mad as a Turkish Parliament.

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: Highlander on May 19, 2016, 21:39:59 PM

Well he is of Turkish descent  :)

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: kevin3 on May 19, 2016, 22:05:42 PM

  I wish the President was descending. !!   Good on yer, Boris.     ;)   ;)

  Merkel, as the un elected leader of the EU, has shown her true colours regarding free speech.     >:(

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: Colwyn on May 20, 2016, 09:59:40 AM

Boris "wins" £1000 from the Spectator - a paper on which he is a columnist. Obvious fix! As corrupt as a Turkish President.

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: JohnF on May 20, 2016, 13:13:14 PM

Quote from: Colwyn on May 20, 2016, 09:59:40 AM

a paper on which he is a columnist.

...and not just any old columnist, an ex-editor of the magazine to boot!

I may be out of step with popular opinion here, but I found the whole thing pretty tacky and more suited to a school playground than a magazine supposedly focused on politics and culture.

I don't like little reginald, or his pious political cronies very much (mibbe a wee understatement there), but FFS, if you're going to attack him do it with a bit of class and originality.

JF

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: Colwyn on May 20, 2016, 13:48:27 PM

If RTE gets his hands on him, Boris may meet a sticky end - just like his Turkish great-grandfather.

Title: Re: Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoğan poem' competition
Post by: JohnF on May 20, 2016, 13:55:38 PM

Then he'd be doing us all a favour...

JF