Turkish PM filmed threatening man with a slap


A video has emerged of Turkey's prime minister threatened a young man with a slap if he booed him on a visit to a town recovering from a mining disaster.
The video, released by Turkey’s Dogan News Agency, was apparently taken during Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit on Wednesday to the eastern town of Soma - a day after nearly 300 people died as they worked underground.
In the video, Erdogan walks with his bodyguards as Soma residents around him boo. Then he approaches a young man and says: "If you boo this country’s prime minister, you get slapped."
The accident in Soma has been controversial not only because of lax safety standard accusations targeting the government, but also incidents involving an aide of Erdogan and the prime minister himself during his Soma visit.

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