Turkey Bans YouTube Over Gay Jibe
Boy, those Turkish do take their history seriously. They've banned YouTube after some Greek jokesters made a video implying Turkey's founding president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, likes boys. Making fun of Ataturk's strictly forbidden in Turkey. Refusing to rise above, a Turkish citizen suggested that homosexuality started in Greek - a somewhat valid point, actually.
A Turkish spokesperson at the London Embassy said the government has nothing to say about the matter:
The videos included parts which insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, our founding father. There is no explanation from the Turkish government, it was a court verdict. English profanities were placed on top of the Turkish flag and pictures of Ataturk.
Wait, the profanities were in English? Uh-oh…
This story got us to thinking - we wonder if we're banned in Turkey. We have a feeling we probably are…hey, any Turks out there??
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Sounds like someone's running a gay smear campaign in Turkey. After years of silent acceptance, all this middle east bullshit is taking its toll on yet another progressive muslim country. Anybody with half a brain in their head knows not to fuck with Ataturk.
I have been there and I know for a fact that gays and transsexuals are widely accepted in turkey, in fact a very famous singer is a male who had surgery to be female. They are not scared of gays they are actually a very accepting people. I would be offended if someone made fun of a founding father.
The point is that Ataturk the "founding father" was allegedy a pedophile. Regardless of the "Gay" issues here is the fact that Republic of Turkey was founded by a bunch of genocidal deviants who commited masssive crimes against humanity and were never called to account because the west turned a blind eye to this injustice!
Turkey was one of the most amazing and progressive places I have ever been. I felt safer and more welcome in the massive city of Istanbul than I have in Baltimore. Insulting Ataturk is disrespectful to the progressive man who basically created modern Turkey. No one would drag Abraham Lincoln or John Quincy Adams through the mud, why do it to someone with the equivalent weight in another society?
Im the german and Im gay… turkish people are acceptin us… and they r really nationalist… this like a argue with their family… I mean "dont play with their country"…
the problem wasnt the turkish people r unaccepting gay people…
thankz….