Former footballer Turkish PM heads ball at Prime Ministry
 
 
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Former footballer Turkish PM heads ball at Prime Ministry

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In this photo provided by Turkish Prime Minister's press service, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard, rear, watches her Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan playing with a soccer ball she presented to him during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (Photo: AP)
27 April 2012 /TODAYSZAMAN.COM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, known for being a promising football player before he entered politics, had a chance to relive his youth when he played with a soccer ball presented by his Australian counterpart on Thursday at the Prime Ministry.

Erdoğan met with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday at his office after the Australian leader attended a dawn service and commemoration ceremony held at Gallipoli Peninsula on Wednesday. Gillard presented him with a soccer ball signed by Australian national soccer team players as a gift, acknowledging Erdoğan's interest in football.

Photos provided by the Prime Ministry showed Erdoğan playing with the ball and heading it as Gillard watched on.
 
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Not knowing how good he was in soccer, I don't like seeing a professional soccer player's determination and credentials to be simplified or easily attenable because it is not easy to make it to the big league. I would prefer the reporter to state his interest in soccer that to give him much credit i...
Senol
Erdogan in our Hearts.
mamad
I think Mr. Erdogan has the necessary fitness to play politics and sport together with cooperative international parts .
Khaled
It is to be feared though that soon the esteemed PM will do another own goal. He is brilliant at that!
migo
When it comes to making real decisions, the man has no balls at all.
DaniC
PM Erdogan making clever use of his head with soccerball. Too bad he doesn't use it this well doing his job, rather than trying to destroy Turkey's standing in the world today.
Curious
Considering how long the AKM concert complex in Istanbul has been closed for the last 3 years at least. it is nice that the PM is now revealing his philistine attitude to art by heading a football directly at an expensive piece of art (which I think belongs to the state of Turkey, and not to him pe...
Veronica
The Premier Erdogan demonstrates that it knows how to make a clever use of his head! The near countries pull a relief sigh and they send in gift concrete footballs to it!
Ivan Julievich Orlov
Erdogan a previous promising football player? ROFL.
fball
Watch out the valuable paintings.Anybody knows who the painters are?
VTiger
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