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[Tim Drayton]

:lol: He must have called him a Pezevenki

Exactly, the word used ("gavat") has the same meaning as the Turkish word "pezevenk", deriving from the Persian "pazhawand", which is used by Greek Cypriots in the above form.

[Tim Drayton]

The Provincial Governor of Adana, Hüseyin Avni Coş, has admitted to publicly swearing at a citizen. Previously denying that he used the word “gavat”, he claimed that he may have used an obscure and similar word (“kavas”) meaning “messenger of an embassy or consulate”. He has now admitted to using the term and has said “It came out of my mouth involuntarily, but it was aimed, not at the people, but at that foul-mouthed individual.”

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/8455 ... irafi.html

[Tim Drayton]

In Izmir in 2009, a woman was sentenced to 90 days’ imprisonment for calling her ex-husband “gavat” (the term used in public by the Provincial Governor of Adana to refer to a citizen).

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/8453 ... hapis.html

[Tim Drayton]

George Papandreou, President of the Socialist International, who is in Istanbul for the Socialist International Council Meeting being held in the city, visited Gezi Park along with Republican People’s Party Assistant Presidents Umut Oran and Faruk Loğoğlu, where he planted a sapling. The event is captured in the following video:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/video/8553 ... dikti.html

[B25]

What a tosser, his own country is in the shits and he wastes time for rubbish like this. It's no wonder Greece has sunk.

[Tim Drayton]

Prime-Minister Erdoğan, speaking about the use of a strong swearword by Adana Provincial Governor Hüseyin Avni Coş to refer to a member of the public, has said, “You saw all of this on the television. With all of this being done in protest against him he also as a human did such a thing. Of course I do not find that expression to be correct. I have given the necessary instruction to my Home Minister. An investigation will be made but, I am sorry, we will not easily let one of our provincial governors be sacrificed in the face of provocative acts of this kind.”

http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/basb ... iz-1160382

[Tim Drayton]

Ali Küçükaydın, Member of Parliament for the ruling AK party in Adana, has said the following about Provincial Governor Coş:

“What happened? Citizens protested and displayed their reactions. What’s wrong with that? Within reasonable limits, an administrator’s duty is to tolerate that. But, on the one hand, to insult people and then later to say that he used a word meaning “embassy messenger” does not befit an administrator. As an Adana Member of Parliament, as someone form Adana, I grieve for Adana. The point that essentially needs to be underlined is that one particular provincial governor has problems in every province he goes to. Everywhere he has had problems with that province’s members of parliament. There is no problem at all with him, but he has problems with the members of parliament in every province. He has members of parliament bugged and does a whole host of other illegal things. There were always problems when he held office as provincial governor, starting in Bingöl, and in Aksaray, Kırklareli and Aydın; he had problems with the members of parliament in those provinces; I mean, not only in Adana. You have problems with members of parliament and you argue with the people on holidays. I am a member of parliament of the ruling party, I come from the regime, I have known him for 29 years and I have absolutely no personal enmity against him. But I cannot remain silent against oppression. I have never done so. I must come out against the state oppression that he is applying.”

Stating that a letter of his to Home Minister Güler calling for Coş to be removed from his post has remained without a reply, he said, “I would not be surprised if he soon stands for election and becomes a member of parliament.”

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/8587 ... zetti.html

[Tim Drayton]

Eskişehir Criminal Court No 2 has applied for the trial into the murder of 19-year-old Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who later died following the savage beating that he received in the streets of Eskişehir on the night of 2-3 June during Gezi protests in that city, to be moved to another venue, alleging that the provincial governate will be unable to provide security for the hearing. The court wrote to the Ministry of Justice asking for a Court of Cassation ruling to move the trial to another province. The ministry approved this request on security grounds and the Penal Chamber No 5 of the Court of Cassation unanimously ruled in favour of the trial being transferred to the AKP-stronghold province of Kayseri.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/8611 ... lindi.html

[Get Real!]

What a tosser, his own country is in the shits and he wastes time for rubbish like this. It's no wonder Greece has sunk.

They’re Oracle’s “allies” comforting Turks while they hold 37% of Cypriot territory under occupation.

[Tim Drayton]

The Provincial Governor of Adana, Hüseyin Avni Coş, is to be given a caution for swearing in public at a citizen.

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/8739 ... _oldu.html