"Iraqi Journalist’s Shoes Make Turkish Media Happy
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 239
December 16, 2008 05:15 PM Age: 8 hrs
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Turkey, Domestic/Social, Home Page, Featured
By: Emrullah Uslu
Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on December 14, has suddenly become a “poster boy” for Turkish newspapers. Almost all newspapers, from center-left to Islamist, underline the symbolic significance of the act as a form of Iraqi resistance toward the U.S. Hurriyet, a leading newspaper, had the headline “World Shoe Day” and underlined the symbolic effect of the incident on the Iraqi resistance (Hurriyet, December 16). The headline of the center-left Radikal was “The Shoe Has Become the New Flag for Anti-Bush People in the Middle East” (Radikal, December 16). Under the headline “Shoe Rebellion,” the center-right Bugun claimed that a million dollars had been offered for the shoes that were thrown at Bush (Bugun, December 16)."
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