Australian Journalist Makes Waves with 'Furkan Derya' Column
One joke and many people jumping to conclusions.
When the Sydney Morning Herald quoted former Australian youth center employee Furkan Derya for a March 10 article, they did so without making any jokes. It was part of an ISIS-related news item.
Tim Blair’s March 15 piece for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, on the other hand, is an opinion column and, as such, took some humorous liberty. Post-publication, many Twitter users were slack-jawed and conspiracy theorizing about this particular sentence:
I furkan derya to find a better name than Furkan Derya.
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