An Onymous Lefty: Was Ataturk gay? Turks and Greeks calmly discuss the VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE in a mature and civilised fashion

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Was Ataturk gay? Turks and Greeks calmly discuss the VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE in a mature and civilised fashion

I'd seen the story about Turkey blocking access to YouTube because of a video "insulting" Ataturk, and laughed/sighed at the idea of a country blocking an entire technology in case someone uses it TO INSULT A HISTORICAL FIGURE. Talk about glass jaws.

But I hadn't been aware of the background to the dispute, which is an ongoing online war between Greeks and Turks over which of the two countries is the most gay. By which they mean, literally, homosexual. Young Greek men have been using the service to accuse young Turkish men AND THEIR HISTORICAL FIGURES of not being interested in women; and the Turks have been fighting back in a similarly mature fashion.

Except that the Turks suddenly can't, because they're blocked from YouTube. The Greeks aren't; they can continue making hilarious "Ataturk liked it up the bum" videos and showing them to the rest of an inexplicably uninterested world, whilst the young Turks, held back by their government, just have to bend over and take it. Like, apparently, Ataturk did.

In tomorrow's news: Blogspot is blocked by Turkey because some Australian blogger sarcastically suggests that Ataturk may have enjoyed EVIL AND UNNATURAL anal sex.

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