June 18, 2014 | Quote

Mining Disaster Becomes Political Fiasco After Erdogan, Advisor Seen Attacking Mourner- Protesters

According to two Turkish-language experts Business Insider consulted, this roughly translates to “Why are you running, you Israeli offspring?” or “Hey buddy, why are you running, Israeli scum!” (The sentence has some vulgarities that are not easily translated into English.) Merve Tahiroglu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies…walked Business Insider through some of the less translatable portions of the tape. “Dolu could mean offspring, sperm, or seed. I would not translate it as ‘son’ because ‘dol’ is a far more vulgar word,” she said. “Ulan” is similarly edgy language. “It’s a colloquial and culture-specific term,” with no English equivalent, Tahiroglu said. “The best way to explain it would be to say it’s a term men use to address each other when they are in an argument or fight.” The fact that it precedes “Israeli offspring” indicates that that term is being used in a specifically derogatory context, she said.

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