What does a world leader do with a gun and six bullets? That was the conundrum Nato leaders faced after the Turkish president offered them each a revolver after the Ankara summit.
Keir Starmer was the first to mention the highly unusual gift presented by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to his guests. On the flight back from Ankara, where Nato leaders had gathered for two days, the British prime minister said he and others had received a revolver engraved with their names.
Alongside the gun sitting in a red box lined in black were six live rounds and a note exempting the weapons from export controls.
It was a surprising gift to say the least, several officials from the different alliance member states said, and gave rise to some “insane” scenes among the various delegations’ security teams.
“An unusual gift from president Erdoğan at the Nato summit: a Magnum revolver with ammunition, engraved with my name,” the Hungarian prime minister, Péter Magyar, said on X.
The Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever, only “learned of the exact nature of the gift” after landing in Belgium. “The prime minister was surprised and immediately handed it over to airport police so it could be placed in a secure safe and the matter was handled in accordance with relevant procedures,” an official said on Thursday.
De Wever’s security team also handled the revolvers given to the EU chiefs based in Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa, with all the security and protocol-related headaches such an effort brings.
— Agence France-Presse in Nato leaders surprised by Turkish president’s gift of guns after summit
I notice the note has no accent marks on “Turkiye”. Did they realize that demanding a name be written with special characters was a non-starter?
There are a couple dots over the u.
most will remain forever unfired.
we’ll know which ones get used by the shrapnel.
Generally any firearm in a presentation box remains unfired.
you speak to retaining value, “generally” suggesting that a majority are not fired. i’m am unsure how you would determine that.
i speak to the owners avoiding an explosion of these specifically.
I wonder if any of them will wind up being sold to collectors? (Let the bidding wars begin!)
Me, I wouldn’t bother. If I wanted one, I’d get a real one.
That there is next level trolling.
Perhaps so the leaders could kill themselves, saving their local islamists from having to do it?
Or they’re non-functional and useless in a fight, like the leaders themselves.
Those might be useful for their self defense when the civil wars start (all due to their policies of bringing in 3rd world barbarians Muslims to replace their native populations).
Six bullets? Five too many.
Maybe not – they would probably miss on the first try.
So, A ceremonial Sword is a perfectly acceptable gift, but a revolver is not?
what a collection of pu****s
Turkish Python Clone Revolver was the name of my first album!
Those will be valuable on the collector market.
Barrel looks a bit long for easy concealed carry.
If Gen. George Patton were alive today and a NATO leader attending, he would have loaded those six rounds and shot the British prime minister for self-defense from the Marx*ist Socia*list-Islamic Republic Of England.
CLONE Pythoons? They look real Pythons to me.
None of them said that the gift was awesome?
A beautiful and thoughtful gift; accept and display it proudly.
“Clone” = knockoff.
A knockoff is an odd ceremonial present.
Did Trump get one?
ROFLMAO!
Tukey was operating under the mistaken assumption that the leaders of those NATO nations were actually men.