What rhymes with Ankara? Not very much, but that didn’t stop Conservative Boris Johnson writing an Erdogan limerick. He won The Spectator magazine’s competition showing solidarity with German comedian Jan Böhmermann.
Former London mayor and current Conservative MP Boris Johnson won an irreverent competition in weekly British news magazine “The Spectator” on Thursday, for his limerick criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Spectator editor Douglas Murray announced on the weekly’s blog that Johnson, currently a leading light in the “Brexit” campaign, won the competition.
“I think it a wonderful thing that a British political leader has shown that Britain will not bow before the putative caliph in Ankara,” Murray wrote.
According to Murray, Johnson agreed to create a limerick for the competition during a joint interview with the Spectator and Swiss weekly “Die Weltwoche,” in which the Tory called the case against German comedian Jan Böhmermann a “scandal.”
“If somebody wants to make a joke about the love that flowers between the Turkish president and a goat, he should be able to do so in any European country, including Turkey,” Johnson said.
His statement was shortly followed by the poem, which described Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a “young fellow from Ankara” who “sowed his wild oats / with the help of a goat / but didn’t even stop to thankera.”
Source: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/the-spectator-podcast-hillarys-america/
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