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Watch Turkey's Prime Minister Apparently Going Ballisti

Watch Turkey's Prime Minister Apparently Going Ballistic On Protestors

Armin Rosen

May 16, 2014, 3:12 PM
It hasn't been an easy week for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and now he's been accused of engaging in baldly thuggish behavior.

In a video published by left-wing Turkish media, a man who appears to be Erdogan lashes out at protestors in Soma, site of a mine disaster that's killed upwards of 270 people, calling for his resignation. At 1:54, a man begins muttering something, before Erdogan lunges at a member of the crowd:

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