Posted on 09/27/2006 5:30:11 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
AN Ankara court fined an elderly man 10,000 lira ($8929) for criticising Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in a visitors' book at the former home of Kemal Ataturk, revered founder of modern Turkey.
Fethi Dorduncu visited the house in the Greek city of Thessaloniki in May and wrote in the visitors' book that Mr Erdogan was a "traitor" bent on destroying Ataturk's secular republic and building an Islamic state in Turkey.
Mr Erdogan ripped the page from the book in anger when he later visited the house, which is now a museum, in the city where Ataturk was born in 1881 when it was still part of the Ottoman Empire ruled from Istanbul.
The Ankara court ordered Mr Dorduncu, who is in his 80s, to pay damages for the pain and anguish he caused Mr Erdogan, the state Anatolian news agency said. Mr Erdogan's lawyers had originally sought damages of 20,000 lira.
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Fine all the Moonbats for the same thing. Wipe out the deficit within a week!
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