Wait, what?

[dreamville_bg]

"Turkey summoned Germany's ambassador to protest a two-minute song lampooning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was broadcast on German television, a diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday. "We summoned the ambassador last week to communicate our protest about the broadcast that we condemned," the source told AFP, speaking on condition of

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This is

[danieldemarko]

just the beginning. Erdogan's empire will break apart....

RE: This is

[dreamville_bg]

Really? From what I'm seeing so far, he seems to be in the strong position here.

[ddstory]

Not if the economic hit men of the free world hit him in the meantime. Be it a coup, or general destabilization of his country (which is already ongoing), or external pressure (Kurds?), etc.

[dreamville_bg]

Sounds like a plan!

Although the hit men wouldn't be economic, rather they'd be political.

[mahnmut]

He demanded that the satire be taken down, eh?

[fieryphoenix]

Demanded? Whatever happened to saying 'bitte'?

[dreamville_bg]

I've looked through my pocket Turkish dictionary, and I'm afraid I can't find such a word in their language. Duh.

[luzribeiro]

You're going to have to wait for quite a while.

[underlankers]

Erdogan sincerely expects Germans to give a shit about satirizing him and that this'll do anything but making the satire more and more vicious?

Meh.