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(Lewis 1968: 1) In the words of a British observer of the Ottoman values and institutions at the start of the twentieth century: "The surest way to insult an Ottoman gentleman is to call him a 'Turk'.
The following is a list of religious slurs or religious insults in the English language that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about adherents or non-believers of a given religion or irreligion, or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or insulting manner.
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
Publisher Ragıp Zarakolu was on trial under Article 301 as well as for "insulting the legacy of Atatürk" under Law 5816 from 2006 till 2008. [27] [28] In June 2008, Zarakolu was found guilty of "insulting the institutions of the Turkish Republic" under Article 301 for translating and publishing a book about the Armenian genocide. The judge ...
Of these, using the classification devised by Sabina Halupka-Resetar, and Biljana Radic, [15] lamb was always used positively; cow and vixen referred to a person's appearance; pig indicated a person's eating habits; calling someone a fox or a turkey related to their intelligence, or lack of it; and names like cat, snake, worm, monkey, dog ...
Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code is a lèse-majesté law deems it illegal to "Insult the President of Turkey". A person who is sentenced for a violation of this article can be sentenced to a prison term between one and four years and if the violation was made in public the verdict can be elevated by a sixth. [3]
According to Know Your Meme, “NPC turned into an insult to be used against people who stuck with the mainstream, mainly by those who held fringe socio-political views. Therefore being called an ...
The turkey face gesture is when you take your hand and put your thumb on your nose, wriggle your head back and forth and do the same thing with the hand. Cocking a snook is an old British taunting gesture in which the thumb of one hand is on the nose and the extended fingers are wiggled.