Erdogan aide Yusuf Yerkel REALLY wants to forget this moment, kicking a mourning miner in #Soma. Let's remind him. pic.twitter.com/ivY6YqZQG2
— Capulcu Tonella (@diehimbeertonis) January 22, 2016
Mashable reports: Famous images showing an aide to Turkey’s prime minister kicking a protester in the wake of a national tragedy are slowly vanishing from the internet in Turkey.
The photographs were taken after a fire killed 301 miners in the spring of 2014 and they quickly became symbols of the government’s callous reaction to the worst industrial accident in Turkey’s history.
Yet anyone in Turkey today who tries to find the famous photos of Yusuf Yerkel winding up for a kick aimed a protester who was already on the ground — and restrained by security — will find that many webpages showing the image are blocked. [Continue reading…]
