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| AKP MP who incited anti-Hurriyet protesters requests personal security guard |
| 2015-09-17 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Abdurrahim Boynukalin, who delivered a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speech addressing hundreds of protesters who attacked daily Hurriyet last week, has filed a request with the Ankara Governor's Office to be assigned a personal security guard as he said he feels "under threat." "I've received [death] threats. There is a lot going on, but there is no need to speak out on it," Boynukalin told daily Hurriyet, confirming that he had asked the Ankara Governor's Office for a personal guard. Boynukalin delivered a controversial speech addressing a group that attacked Hurriyet's headquarters in Istanbul on Sept. 6, which was captured on video and later went viral. Video footage taken since has also emerged, in which he can be heard threatening Hurriyet journalists and expressing his regret that they were "never beaten up before." "They have never had a beating. Our mistake was to never have beaten them up. If only we had beaten them up," Boynukalin can be seen saying in the footage, in which he also mocked Hurriyet editor-in-chief Sedat Ergin and senior columnist Ahmet Hakan for their reactions after around 200 assailants smashed the front windows of Hurriyet's office building with stones and clubs. |
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