"Multicultural Europe shouldn’t be hypocritical about Turkey
By Ronan Mullen
I swear this is not an urban myth. An Irishwoman I know who works in the Netherlands had to arrange a business meeting with a Dutch colleague recently. She rang him and suggested a date three weeks hence.
'I can't make it that day,' he replied. 'I have to go to my uncle's funeral.'
'Oh, did he die abroad?' my friend sympathised.
She was greatly shocked by the response. 'He's still alive,' she was told. 'But he is being put to sleep that day.' "
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