Turkey Probes Billionaire Businessman over Kurdish Woman Joke
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Turkey probes billionaire businessman over Kurdish woman joke
Prosecutors on Saturday opened a probe into a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koc Holdings, Turkey's biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist. The blunder was made by Rahmi Koc at the opening of a hospital in the western resort city of Izmir late Friday, but when the footage started circulating online it caused a backlash. The joke, which revolved around a misunderstanding between…
Turkish Tycoon’s Controversial Joke Triggers Online Outrage
The honorary chairman of Turkey’s largest conglomerate apologized after a joke described by critics as racist and sexist sparked widespread outrage and a regional prosecutor’s office announced an investigation.
Turkish Tycoon Apologizes as Controversial Joke Spurs Outrage
(Bloomberg) — The honorary chairman of Turkey’s largest conglomerate apologized after a joke described by critics as racist and sexist sparked widespread outrage and a regional prosecutor’s office announced an investigation.
An investigation has been launched against Rahmi Koç, Honorary Chairman of the Koç Group and one of Turkey's leading senior investors, for a joke he told while joking with AK Party member Binali Yıldırım at the opening of the American Hospital in İzmir on June 5th. The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office announced on June 6th that an investigation had been initiated "ex officio under the charge of publicly insulting a segment of the populatio…
MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli criticized the initiation of an investigation against Rahmi Koç for his sexist and discriminatory remarks about Kurdish women.
An investigation has been launched against businessman Rahmi Koç, whose "joke about a Kurdish woman" at the opening of the American Hospital in Izmir sparked outrage. MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli reacted negatively to the investigation against Rahmi Koç.
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