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Turkish dancing delight lands couple in court ( NZ )
AFP ^ | Aug 6, 2010

Posted on 08/07/2010 3:05:35 PM PDT by george76

A Turkish immigrant claims New Zealand police cannot tell the difference between fighting and dancing after he was charged with assault while celebrating with his wife.

A judge has now told the police to go away and study a cultural Turkish video showing the kolbasti dance before deciding whether to proceed with the case.

Kebab shop owner Allaetin Can was arrested after a passerby reported he was hitting, kicking and strangling his wife outside their shop in the North Island town of Hawera.

But when he appeared in court, Can argued he and his wife Elmas were merely performing the traditional Turkish kolbasti dance, which, loosely translated, means "caught red-handed by the police" and ...

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fighting; kolbasti; kolbastidance; turkish; turks

1 posted on 08/07/2010 3:05:38 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Everything the Turks do is fighting.


2 posted on 08/07/2010 3:06:32 PM PDT by gundog (Why is it that useful idiots remain idiots long after they've exhausted their usefulness?)
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To: george76

Hmmm.

Well, I looked up a couple of Youtubes of Kolbasti, and I didn’t see anything that resembled choking or violent behavior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3wBQE9GHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7vw2XRpH4

Maybe Kolbasti has a mosh pit/slam-dance variant? :-)


3 posted on 08/07/2010 3:11:59 PM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! SERPENTINE!)
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To: george76

Nutty, but funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62n7Id_RAXg


4 posted on 08/07/2010 3:18:16 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: george76

***... he was hitting, kicking and strangling his wife outside their shop...
But when he appeared in court, Can argued he and his wife Elmas were merely performing the traditional Turkish kolbasti dance,***

Anything like the French APACHE dance?


5 posted on 08/07/2010 3:39:42 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: george76
Kolbasti?  What do you call this...?



And watch all these Youtube videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk9-WdPPzr8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kej_3QO-sD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHQ-43bw3pE

6 posted on 08/07/2010 3:58:19 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: george76

Those idiot Westerners will believe anything.


7 posted on 08/07/2010 4:09:14 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: george76

Wasn’t there a skit on the Carol Burnett show where she’s being choked by her husband and her husband is pretending it’s only a joke?


8 posted on 08/07/2010 4:10:15 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: george76

Deport them both.


9 posted on 08/07/2010 4:24:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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To: DemforBush

That first video had a bit of a country hoedown sound to it.


10 posted on 08/07/2010 4:28:30 PM PDT by csvset
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To: DemforBush
Spent an hour watching various kolbasti dance videos. Looks like a way twenty somethings in Islamic Turkey can "get away with dancing", but not quite with each other.

I think what this guy meant was "I been bustin' her up with a kielbasa but she kept gettin' loose" ~ and for that I'd check out the Polish sites first!

11 posted on 08/07/2010 5:02:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: hamboy
And what do I call that? First of all they look mighty big for Philippinos but I'll bite, what?
12 posted on 08/07/2010 5:11:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: csvset

That country hoedown sound comes from the git-fiddle ~ same’s we have.


13 posted on 08/07/2010 5:19:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: csvset

Check this from Yakutia (which is where the folks who invaded Japan circa 569AD cane from) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40eMdxZGlcA


14 posted on 08/07/2010 5:21:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: csvset

Here’s a variation on a theme ~ also from Yakutia ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipUTs0k5uo


15 posted on 08/07/2010 5:25:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Goodness !


16 posted on 08/07/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by csvset
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