Brand new high-speed train proudly demonstrates Turkey's tremendous technical prowess, then immediat

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[quote]Turkey's first high-speed train has broken down just a few hours after the prime minister inaugurated it in a glowing speech about the country's technical prowess, it's been reported.

The glitch happened when a dislocated contact wire cracked the windshield of the sleek new train, and the electricity had to be cut for 30 minutes to fix the problem, Hurriyet newspaper reports.

Earlier in the day Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, travelling from the capital Ankara to the financial hub of Isanbul with his wife Emine, praised a number of infrastructure projects launched by his ruling Justice and Development Party. "We are now a nation who is admired," he said in a speech in the town of Eskisehir. "Not a nation that looks at European cities and admires those places, seeing high-speed trains there."

"You should have no doubt," Erdogan added. "Aren't we now producing our own helicopters? We are. Are we starting to produce our own local tanks? We will move further." He went on to describe Turkey as a country that turns its dreams into reality.[/quote]

[Drury]

They might want to reconsider that about helicopters and tanks, those might actually blow up if handled wrong.

[LoganIsAwesome]

Man, maybe you can start turning civil rights in to a reality, too.

[Drury]

Better hope they won't go for nukes or they might end up with no nation to be admired at all.

[Pilot1215]

"Brand new high-speed train proudly demonstrates Turkey's tremendous technical prowess, then immediately breaks down", Thus proving Turkey's tremendous technical prowess...

[Antlerp]

[QUOTE=Pilot1215;45527171]"Brand new high-speed train proudly demonstrates Turkey's tremendous technical prowess, then immediately breaks down", Thus proving Turkey's tremendous technical prowess...[/QUOTE]

yep, a train breaking down is basically evidence of Turkey's tremendous technical... incompetence

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;45525198]Man, maybe you can start turning civil rights in to a reality, too.[/QUOTE]

Turkey is kind funny actually. The strongly nonhumn rights former military government can be in many ways considered better for human rights that what rural communities want.

[RosettaStoned]

[QUOTE]We are now a nation who is admired," he said in a speech in the town of Eskisehir.[/QUOTE]

I think it might take more than one train to make that a reality.

[snookypookums]

[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;45529665]I think it might take more than one train to make that a reality.[/QUOTE]

Politicians can't turn off their hyperbole switch, especially when it comes to things like this.

Watch him rock this motherfucka during the next election.

"Who has two thumbs and gave you a goddamned awesome train? THIS GUY!"

"But we're being oppres-"

"Who has two fingers and doesn't want to give a shit about your problems about the train? This guy!"

[I]*sticks fingers in ears and goes lalalalalala*[/I]

[SaltyWaters]

Wow, Turkey decides to turn its back on the US diplomatically, and suddenly their shit starts breaking.

IT MUST BE A SIGN FROM GO- the cia.

[Bradyns]

This can now be sold to make the new [B]Turkish DeLight Rail.[/B]