Why Turkish newspapers are funnier than humor magazines

The usual line "Turkey is bizarre" is no longer a sufficient term of portrayal. Real news reports have reached a level of amusing absurdity that they may in the future threaten humor readership in the country. 

The pick of the week should be the viral video showing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail advancing on protesters in Washington, pushing them, and then attempting to drown them out with noises reminiscent of bleating goats - a scene that prompted social media users to quickly mock the guards and the scene, with many using the hashtag #ÖÖÖEEEEEEEAAAAAA??????HHHHH and inserting their shouts into mashups of pop songs and crying animals. 

Then on Monday a photo on Hürriyet's front page showed a group of illegal Muslim immigrants on the northern Aegean Greek island of Lesbos protesting their forced deportation/re-admission into Muslim Turkey.

One of the protesters, a child, was holding a placard that read: "No Turkey." Behind him an adult protester was holding another placard that read: "We want freedom." Call it a simple twist of fate, but the photo was probably more telling than any few-thousand-word essay on Turkish politics.
 
Recently, this newspaper, too, was part of the unconscious effort threatening humor magazine readership when it posted three news stories on its web page at the same time. One headline read: "[Turkish Justice] Minister accuses Twitter of plotting against Erdo?an." Another headline was: "Turkish man arrested for insulting [prime minister] on emergency line."  

Still not funny enough? Move on to the third headline, then: "Turkey leads resolution in favor of peaceful protest in Geneva." The lead paragraph read: "Amid growing global concerns over the deterioration of civil rights and...