Erdoğan Reminds Mubarak that Presidents Die Too

Erdoğan instructs Mubarak to listen to the wishes of the Egyptian citizenry...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

(ISTANBUL) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has finally weighed in on the situation in Egypt.

He issued the latest in a sequence of recommendations to preferred U.S. allies in the region.

Last year’s post-flotilla advice to the Israeli regime consisted of an excerpt from the Ten Commandments, delivered in both English and Hebrew:

“Thou shalt not kill”.

This year’s advice to Mubarak covers the same themes of religion and death.

Reminding the Egyptian leader of the plot in the ground that is inevitably awaiting him, Erdoğan has instructed Mubarak to listen to the wishes of the Egyptian citizenry, given the irrelevance of political rank when “the only thing that will come with you when you die is your burial shroud”.

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