{"id":47121,"date":"2015-10-15T02:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47121"},"modified":"2015-10-15T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T03:18:29","slug":"paintful-humor-in-wake-of-ankara-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47121","title":{"rendered":"Paintful humor in wake of Ankara bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; in which 359 turns out to be just a degree closer to zero than 358 is ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZlpIRZ7WfUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For those Zenpundit readers no more fluent in Turkish than I am, Acting Prime Minister <strong>Ahmet Davutoglu<\/strong>&#8216;s interview above was reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/national_davutoglu-says-june-7-election-results-were-shocking-for-ak-party_401547.html\"><strong>Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the interview on Wednesday night Davutoglu also commented on the Ankara bombings on Saturday which left nearly 100 people dead in a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack. \u201cThere is a 360-degree, not 180 degrees, difference between the Islam we defend and daesh has in its mind,\u201d the acting prime minister said in an apparent gaffe that sparked a series of tweets mocking his statements which meant the government and ISIL are on the same page on their interpretation of Islam. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavutoglu said there is a 360-degree difference between ISIL and them. They would sue others who would say that,\u201d academic Koray \u00c7aliskan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, a closed disc has 360 degrees,\u201d Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cem Toker tweeted, recalling that Davutoglu is a professor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/strong> also quoted the &#8220;famous Turkish geometry teacher&#8221; whose classes on YouTube have garnered him an impressive following, <strong>Mustafa Mete Ekolan<\/strong> aka <strong>Ekol Hoca<\/strong>. Ekol tweeted the following graphic illustration today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">360 derece&#10;<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/uBBawFWHeb\">pic.twitter.com\/uBBawFWHeb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ekol Hoca (@ekolhoca) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ekolhoca\/status\/654375018953097221\">October 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>** <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that <strong>Today\u2019s Zaman<\/strong> Editor-in-Chief <strong>Bulent Kenes<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/national_todays-zaman-editor-in-chief-bulent-kenes-released-pending-trial_401484.html\">was released pending trial<\/a> today. A fine legal point made by his defense lawyer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gunaydin said in the petition to the court there is no crime in the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) for \u201csending tweets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; in which 359 turns out to be just a degree closer to zero than 358 is ] . ** For those Zenpundit readers no more fluent in Turkish than I am, Acting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu&#8216;s interview above was reported by Today&#8217;s Zaman: During the interview on Wednesday night Davutoglu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,371,655,429,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-humor","category-mathematics","category-turkey","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47132,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121\/revisions\/47132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}