Our dictator is busy fucking jizzing money into İstanbul Başakşehir to fund the propaganda pieces properly.
Well, I suppose as far as embezzling, corrupt, incompetent, backwards strongmen go, wasting public money on playing dress-up with toy soldiers is one of the less-bad outcomes for one’s lira. Better than just being stolen, or being blown on a half-a-billion dollar desecration of a national park for the Sultan’s palace. :/
Also, the rest of the budget went to censoring the cigarettes and alcohol in more secular productions.
Next Ataturk biopic will just be a censor bar wherever Mustafa Kemal would be 😭
Next Ataturk biopic will just be a censor bar wherever Mustafa Kemal would be 😭
“And the greeks were driven into the sea as we reclaimed Izmir, because… we were Muslims! And then the evil CHP ran turkey and forced everyone to be atheists and eat pork that they bought from europeans and they sucked. Until Adnan Menderes came, and that was the greatest time ever, until he was betrayed in 1960” /s
Well, I suppose as far as embezzling, corrupt, incompetent, backwards strongmen go, wasting public money on playing dress-up with toy soldiers is one of the less-bad outcomes for one’s lira. Better than just being stolen, or being blown on a half-a-billion dollar desecration of a national park for the Sultan’s palace. :/
Next Ataturk biopic will just be a censor bar wherever Mustafa Kemal would be 😭
“And the greeks were driven into the sea as we reclaimed Izmir, because… we were Muslims! And then the evil CHP ran turkey and forced everyone to be atheists and eat pork that they bought from europeans and they sucked. Until Adnan Menderes came, and that was the greatest time ever, until he was betrayed in 1960” /s