Headlines from the centennial! - Seventh sequel

Here we go again, more headlines from the Istanbul press in the year 2023, while of course the world will be watching with envy the rise and rise and rise of Turkey: 

?Two toddlers were detained by the police for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Witnesses said the toddlers started crying "like they were being tortured" after Mr. Erdo?an appeared on TV at a café where the mother of the suspects was feeding them milk. A prosecutor released them on the grounds that they were unable to speak. Later, the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors suspended the prosecutor.  

?President Erdo?an said he was now very proud that the number of students enrolled at imam-hatip schools had exceeded 9 million, compared to 60,000 when his government first came to power in 2002. But Mr. Erdo?an condemned the Nobel Committee for refusing his request to launch a prize in imam studies. In support, Turkish Education Minister Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, former leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), accused the Committee of "sheer Islamophobia." 

?Six former ministers in former Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu's December 2015 cabinet were detained on charges of being accomplices of the Gülen terror organization. Prosecutors said Mr. Davuto?lu, too, was being investigated in the probe. In an address to the nation, President Erdo?an said of the probe: "Ah, my dear nation, we were fooled, we were betrayed!" 

?Turkish Prime Minister Khaleed Meshaal, [a former Hamas official] a largely symbolic figure in Turkey's executive presidential system, said in Arabic: "We will never give up demanding a no-fly zone in northern Syria." Few Turks understood his remarks.  

?The Prime Ministry's My Big Fat Conservative Wedding Department...

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