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Turkey's Erdogan slams Facebook
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Published: 13.05.11, 18:47
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1. What a primitive little man....
(05.13.11)
2. Turkey PM Slams F.B. & e-mail
Edward ,   Savannah, USA   (05.13.11)
I guess it would be an "ugly" technology if it told the UGLY TRUTH about the Turkish PM and Muslims in particular!!! Thanks to Face Book and e-mails, brutal suppression of peaceful demonstrators are hard to hide, and one can't keep the genocide of Armenians by Turkey swept under the rug forever!!!
3. The beginning of...
solomon ,   bklyn   (05.13.11)
shutting down the web, as they do in other islamic countries? It would be more difficult in Turkey.
4. similarities
An American Patriot ,   San Antonio TX   (05.13.11)
Hr sounds more and more Obama every day
5. If Facebook had a "Dislike button" 29,345,592, dislike this.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (05.13.11)
6. Facebook is a Zionist plot
Marco ,   Spain   (05.13.11)
Why should Muslim use anything advanced, that removes them from back ward Islam? Erdogan makes a lot of Jihadi sense.
7. Ignore it !!! ,...
split ,   US   (05.13.11)
8. join this man to the EU!
(05.13.11)
9. Go back to your camel herding ways
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (05.13.11)
Give up your computers, medical advancements, telephones, etc. Take up living in a tent.
10. During the Ottoman Empire
David Israel ,   NY USA   (05.13.11)
In the past during the Ottoman Empire Turks considered medicine and other sciences as well as arts and music to be ugly. This mentality made Turkey a backward society until Ataturk tried to change it. Unfortunately AKP and Recep Bey are taking the country back to the dark ages one more time.
11. Erdogan
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (05.13.11)
Is Erdogan getting senile ?.He forgot to bring up Israel.
12. Like, it's not possible to forge "SnailMail"?
Israelit ,   Israel   (05.13.11)
Times change. Technology changes. Donkeys were exchanged for cars. Paper for clay tablets. What a moron.
13. When the man is right, the man is right!
Nahum Korda ,   Ein Ziwan, Israel   (05.13.11)
Facebook is indeed idiotic.
14. FACEBOOK AND ERDOGAN ARE UGLY
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (05.13.11)
This turk jerk belongs in the dark ages.Facebook and people making friends are too ' modern" for this twit.
15. ERDOGAN ,ASHTON AND FACEBOOK
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (05.13.11)
Umm.....what do they have in common ?? could it be that they are all " cosmetically challenged " ??
16. DEAR MR .ERDOGAN
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (05.13.11)
Sir ,you really are right you know. Modern technology and means of communication are ugly and dreadful (a zionist conspiracy to rule the world ?) .Far better to live in a cave and to write with fingernails scratching on stone walls and communicating with smoke signals.
17. he looks like he was slammed in the face
jason white ,   afula, israel   (05.13.11)
with a book, a big book. This bum knows what ugly is. He sees it everyday in his mirror.
18. iran's turkish Dog Is Barking Again?
Wondering   (05.13.11)
Did your baba in iran, you know the little bearded monkey Give you permission erDOGan to speak? Whats the matter tayyip No Friends on F.B.? With friends like you who needs enemy's? Does this have anything to do with F.B.'s founder being JEWISH? Just Wondering? Shabat Shalom
19. It is amazing to hear E. to speak the truth!
Jouko ,   Finland   (05.13.11)
Erdogan has realized that now in modern society the government no more has any control over the people. The power is continuously being transferred to modern media. And the whole society in the end will be in complete chaos because anybody can publish anything he/she wants to without any moral responsibility! Oh - where are we going to - only God knows what is the end of all this mess!
20. AN ISLAMIST TENDENCY
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (05.13.11)
To be reactionary and anti-progressive. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
21. Erdogan and facebook
Jorge ,   Israel/USA/Argentina   (05.13.11)
He is right, according to the muslim law, he sluold not use facebook, computer, television and telephone. But he also looks like a traitor to the muslim
22. Let's go back to pen and quill
arnold ,   canada   (05.13.11)
I can understand his fear of facebook and twitter in the context that several leaders lost control of their power but to find fault because of the possibility of "immoral content" is way out of line. If Mohammad were alive today he would be having a field day with twittering and facebooking his conquests of the young girls.
23. ugly technology
tiki ,   belgium   (05.13.11)
Depends who sais what about who. Probably those who vote for him can't use it, his opponents can.
24. Erdogan's opponent Kilicdaroglu
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (05.13.11)
His political opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu is using Face Book very effectively as an election campaign tool. He is advertizing his meetings and his plans in it and receiving great number of hits. Additionally some journalists who oppose him such as Bekir Coskun also are sharing their daily articles opposing him very effectively and getting many hits as well as feedback. I guess this is why he does not like Face Book.
25. What's a matter Edrogan? Scared?
Lone Gunmen   (05.13.11)
26. Welcome to the Information Age you Islamofascist dinosaur!
Yaniv ,   Israel   (05.13.11)
27. If it looks like Hitler, has a 'stache like hitler,
Jae ,   Israel   (05.13.11)
maybe its the Islamic version? This dude is a throwback to ww2 anti semites
28. Can't call him a Neanderthal, he's actually Austropithicus!
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (05.13.11)
Going after Facebook and e-mail?? After Erdogan's aligning with Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, IHH thug "flotillas" and Syria's massacres of its own people, it is only a matter of time before the US Congress cancels Turkey's F-35 deal and backs away from any NATO alliance that includes them. Turkey has very little time left to oust this moran and his party, US policy makers are asking the same questions now about Turketyas about our alleged "ally" Pakistan - questions that are long overdue. Israel can not be legitimately pressed on "occupation" and a Palestinian state without pressing Turkey on an independent Kurdistan for the 5 times more numerous Kurds - and getting Turkey the hell out of its northern Cyprus colony. Conversely, the Jews of Samaria and Judea have no less right to declare a state just as "North Cyprus" did. If its OK for Turkey, its OK for Israel.
29. on #10, david israel
joel ,   usa   (05.13.11)
yeah, mr erdodan the "turkeys" leader got "depressed" since his leadership didn't pass the EU acceptance; and the "turkeys" are blaming him entirely so he got a rule as a dictator in a democratic Turkey, the "turkeys" don't really like mr erdogan and his ways?
30. His ego undermines "the party".
Ypip ,   Canada   (05.14.11)
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