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13-Foot Golden Erdogan Statue in German City Annoys Locals
Newsweek ^ | August 28, 2018 - 13:08 | Damien Sharkov

Posted on 08/28/2018 2:22:48 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

A shining effigy of controversial Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suddenly appeared in southwestern Germany—to the surprise and chagrin of locals.

The 13-foot statue, painted gold, depicts Erdogan with his hand, outstretched and pointing at the horizon. Erdogan is a divisive figure in Germany—which has a diaspora of around 3 million people of Turkish nationality or descent—and when residents of Wiesbaden, 20 miles west of Frankfurt, woke up to a monument honoring the man, they had questions for city officials.

"We have received calls from a string of irritated citizens—it is not clear to people that it is part of the Biennale," a spokesperson for the city said of the statue, according to German news agency DPA, referring to the ongoing art festival in town.

The golden Erdogan figure is an installation that is part of the festival, known as the Wiesbaden Biennale for Contemporary Art, though city officials also had no specific knowledge that the statue would pop up in town. The festival’s theme this year is "bad news" and besides having already inflamed public opinion in Germany with strong remarks and accusations, Erdogan is set to make headlines again when he visits Berlin next month.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: x

The Hillary one is pretty funny. Too bad it’s Obama.


21 posted on 08/28/2018 2:42:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Fiddlstix
Yes, Erdogan the Islamist has publicly quoted the first statement. And told young children how wonderful it was for them to be martyrs for Islam. (Some of them cried, don't blame them)
22 posted on 08/28/2018 2:42:45 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: BenLurkin

That just suddenly appeared?

LMAO.


23 posted on 08/28/2018 2:43:18 PM PDT by TADSLOS (1. DonÂ’t Forget Nothing.)
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To: rdcbn

It is evil enough for me just a statue.


24 posted on 08/28/2018 2:43:53 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: BenLurkin

From this angle, he does kind of look like Uncle Adolf.


25 posted on 08/28/2018 2:43:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

smile. Thank you for the pic. hee hee hee


26 posted on 08/28/2018 2:44:52 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: dfwgator

The proletariat attacked the bourgeoisie coat?

Oh wait, Karl Marx. Oh well, I’m sure they were all heroes to Obama and the Democrats.


27 posted on 08/28/2018 2:45:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: x

I so love those three pics. smile.


28 posted on 08/28/2018 2:45:47 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SaveFerris

Yes. We wait.


29 posted on 08/28/2018 2:46:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil; dfwgator

Looks like Obama’s coat after Moochelle caught him flirting with the blonde chick at Mandela’s funeral.


30 posted on 08/28/2018 2:46:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Texas Fossil

Occupy until He comes!

Luke 19:13 King James Version (KJV)

13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.


31 posted on 08/28/2018 2:47:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Sigh. I look forward to the day I can say that Obama is no longer even mentioned.


32 posted on 08/28/2018 2:47:57 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SaveFerris

Will be interesting. And brutal.


33 posted on 08/28/2018 2:51:42 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

That’s probably post-Armageddon, unfortunately.

It feels like he’ll have a role in the 10 kingdoms. I can’t prove that. He certainly has a significant cultist group of acolytes.

BUT he’s hanging around D.C. Is he not? (or at least he was)

Makes me wonder: “Why?”.

Of course it’s never enough for him nor the Clintons.


34 posted on 08/28/2018 2:52:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: pepsionice

Wiesbaden ping


35 posted on 08/28/2018 2:56:43 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: SaveFerris

If the congress grows big enough balls to open Obama’s real history, he will vanish.

He is a slippery eel/snake.


36 posted on 08/28/2018 2:58:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Throw bacon on it.


37 posted on 08/28/2018 2:59:05 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Texas Fossil; SaveFerris

The antichrist?


38 posted on 08/28/2018 3:01:52 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: metmom

My guess is a regional caliphate for Ezekiel 38.

And a big surprise coming his way if he indeed is.

I still believe the Antichrist, the Man of Sin, the Lawless One, the Beast arises out of Europe. Though Turkey is indeed somewhat close.

IMHO, he’ll be a well-spoken European liberal who will enter the E.U. Parliment building (and the United Nations’ building in New York) and confirm the peace deal that divides Israel for 7 years (with an official “Palestinian state”). And a “shared Jerusalem”. We’re all but there, almost. And I think the False Prophet will appear to be “christian” (small “c”).

I don’t think Erdogan is anywhere even close to the charisma of (small “a”) antichrist spirit Barack Hussein Obama. There are still droves of fools that slobber over him.


39 posted on 08/28/2018 3:10:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: metmom

Erdogan?

I don’t think so.

That is just my opinion.

Obama?

Don’t think so either.

We shall see. At the time, we will know.


40 posted on 08/28/2018 3:17:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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