Posted on 12/01/2015 11:30:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Turkey once again showed it can't take a joke, as a Turkish court ordered a panel of experts to assess the character of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings - to decide whether a doctor who compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the figure should be jailed.
Dr. Bilgin Ciftci of Aydin is accused of "insulting" Erdogan by posting images online comically comparing Erdogan and Gollum, the fantasy creature with a personality split between good and evil who became a fan favorite for pining over the One Ring - better known as "my precious."
The experts will determine whether the comparison was an insult based on completely unclear criteria, at which point the court will decide whether or not to throw the physician in jail for up to two years, reports the Turkish Today's Zman.
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why did the turkey cross the road?
Because Russia ordered it to
LOL, as a child, we had a family doctor my parents would always call “Yoda”.
Somebody find the Turkish way to say “Get Over It!”
Turkish cordless bungie jumping in a rock quarry.
Erdogan is a total dick!
Sheik Obama is wishing he could do this too.
Gollum is the one who should be insulted.
He’s dead, Jim.
Well thanks to those pics I can definitely see a resemblance...and the press here would also exploit the likeness.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Dicks are givers of love, begetters of children, enjoyers of pleasure. It would be more accurate to call ERdogan an a-—hole, because every time he opens his mouth, guess what comes out. See Team America for further elucidation of terminology.
Around here, we live little doubt that we mean insults. But he does wish that he could jail his insulters.
*chuckling*
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