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by nwardez 4476 days ago
Around a week ago, a Turkish "politician" who used to be the chief negotiator for EU affairs made what might have been the most tasteless comment in Turkish political history:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/egemen-bagis-necrop...

2 comments

Looks like readers misinterpreted the context which made his comment quite reasonable. This is why democracies elect incompetent politicians - people won't vote for effective people who say the wrong things. Although calling someone a necrophiliac reinforces people's prejudice against necrophiliacs which is probably worse than calling someone gay but I doubt the outraged group-thinkers are concerned with that.
very sad