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| An illustration found on the pro-government Turkish media shows US President Donald Trump receiving an "Ottoman slap" by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Source: A Haber) |
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday stepped up threats of a potential confrontation with the US Army backing the Kurdish forces in Syrian Kurdistan.
Speaking to a weekly parliamentary convention of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, Erdogan said American generals defying Ankara’s calls to withdraw from the Kurdish-held town of Manbij in northern Syria were yet to receive an Ottoman slap.
The “Ottoman slap” was a potentially fatal martial arts technique used in close combat by Asappes, unmarried paid soldiers, in case they became unarmed while leading assaults on enemy positions in conquests into Europe from the 16th century onward.
Its cultural significance as a form of military superiority to Westerners persists for the Turks with frequent evocations at times of foreign policy crises.
State TV TRT produced a series in 2013 titled “Ottoman slap,” retelling the story of the Turkish capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire Constantinople, the modern-day Istanbul.
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