{"id":1285,"date":"2009-10-02T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:09:51","slug":"imf-shoe-turke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/imf-shoe-turke\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF shocked in Turkey, Turkish student hurles shoe at IMF head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1284\" title=\"imf_shoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/imf_shoe-340x207.jpg\" alt=\"imf_shoe\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/imf_shoe-340x207.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/imf_shoe.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><strong>A demonstrator in Turkey protested Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund by throwing his shoe at him during a conference at Istanbul Bilgi University and shouting &#8220;IMF, get out of Turkey!&#8221;. The protest reminded people of Muntadar al-Zaidi (Iraqian Journalist) who hurled his shoe to the then US president, George W Bush in Iraq 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man was part of a group protesting at IMF involvement in Turkish politics and was an isolated incident however there were wide range protests in many areas of Istanbul including Taksim.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, which is host country for the 2009 annual meeting of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, is negotiating for a new loan from the fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incident shows what Turkish people really think of the IMF,&#8221; said Batuhan Bal, a law student at Istanbul Commerce University. &#8220;We need space between ourselves and the IMF.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has had nearly 20 loan programs from the IMF which the general public sees as an extra debt on the $8.5 billion already owed and is seen as a symbol of foreign pressure.<\/p>\n<p>To get an IMF loan, Turkey would have to reduce its deficit by cutting government spending or boosting taxes more than the government wants.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who was a veteran French politician spoke of the event by saying &#8220;I was glad to meet students and hear their views,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;One thing I learned, Turkish students are polite. They wait until the end to complain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demonstrator in Turkey protested Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund by throwing his shoe at him during a conference at Istanbul Bilgi University and shouting &#8220;IMF, get out of Turkey!&#8221;. The protest reminded people of Muntadar al-Zaidi (Iraqian Journalist) who hurled his shoe to the then US president, George W Bush in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,1,7877,137],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-general","category-politics","category-sectoral","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8416,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}