The terrible Turkish President

Stuff reports:

Turkey’s president has come under fire after telling a tearful young girl in military uniform the country would honour her if she became a martyr.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited the girl on stage on Saturday (Sunday NZT) during a televised meeting for his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party.

The girl appeared to be sobbing as she walked towards the podium. Erdogan kissed her on both cheeks and indicated a Turkish flag in her pocket.

Turkey used to be a great country. It had support for joining the EU. Was a very valuable member of NATO and a shining example of how you can have a secular Government in a Muslim majority state.

Now they have a President who sounds like he is training up kids to be suicide bombers. Sure he didn’t exactly say that but no head of government should be encouraging six year olds to become martyrs.