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2021-07-04 The Grand Turk

Israeli said booted from Turkey for blowing nose on banknote

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-04 01:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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Laugh not... my father doing TDY tour of Turkey, Iran, and Somalia in 1967... doing "Quick-talk" site reviews. Having some local travel $$. My dad
handed his cab driver a turkisk bill and it was so crumpled the driver unthinking tried to smooth it out by rubbing it over the car door jam. A "special" police officer saw this disrespectful act walked over to the cab driver and slapped him up side the head.. As my father told me it wasn't with his hand either.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-07-04 10:35|| 2021-07-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 So they’ve been nuts over there for a long time? Good to know.

The key to me was this bit:

The man, identified in reports as Mohamad Nader Badarneh, an Arab citizen of Israel ...

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-04 13:22|| 2021-07-04 13:22|| Front Page Top

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