Confusing headline

 

"Turkey slaps ban on YouTube"

 

What?

 

No more turkey-slaps on Youtube?

 

Am I going to have to start watching "Big Brother" again?

 

Apparently not.

Some sub-editor at The Age is basking in the glory of this amusing double entendre after the Turkish national telecommunications provider, Turk Telekom, was ordered to block access to Youtube by a local court.

Prosecutors alleged that videos on Youtube had insulted the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Ataturk is famous, in Australia, for his quote:

 

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.. you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.

Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours..

You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now living in our bosom and are in peace.

Having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

 

 

The statement was popularised by Midnight Oil in their song "Blossom and Blood".