Istanbul – In US Dispute, A Few Turks Destroy IPhones In Online Posts

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    People walk past an advertising billboard at an upscale neighbourhood in Istanbul, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018.  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,  had said that his country will boycott U.S.-made electronic goods amid a diplomatic spat that has helped trigger a Turkish currency crisis. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Istanbul – A small number of Turks are responding to their president’s call to boycott American electronic goods by posting videos in which they smash iPhones with bats, hammers and other blunt instruments.

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    In one video , a man collects iPhones from several youths squatting in front of a Turkish flag, lays the devices on the ground and pounds them with a sledgehammer. “For the motherland!” he says at one point.

    In another video, a boy pours a plastic bottle of Coca Cola into a toilet in a show of repugnance for U.S. goods.

    American products remain widely used in Turkey, which is locked in a dispute with Washington over an American pastor being tried in a Turkish court and other issues. The two countries have also imposed tariffs on each other’s goods.


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    VeyIzMir
    VeyIzMir
    5 years ago

    Smashing iPhones? Sounds like a nice Chassidish bunch!

    5 years ago

    The Turks are acting like they are relevant. Apparently, they still didn’t get the news their empire crashed quite a few years ago.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    5 years ago

    The French were 100% correct in blocking Turkey from joining the EU and Euro Zone years ago. Now their pro-PLO Islamist Erdogan tyrant has jailed 100,000 ‘enemies’, killed a semi-free press and destroyed the economy. He’s just another islamic corrupt sultan. Next he’ll attack the 25,000 Jews left there.