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Turkish press outraged after sick PM locked in car

ANKARA -- The Turkish press Wednesday questioned the competence of high-level security staff after an unconscious Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was accidentally locked in his car while being taken to hospital for low blood sugar. "
A security scandal," blared the best-selling Hurriyet newspaper, decrying Erdogan's hospitalization Tuesday as "a chain of clumsiness and mistakes."
"Abandoned in the hands of fate," trumpeted the popular Aksam, while the mass-circulation Sabah asked: "What if the prime minister was having a heart attack?"

Struck by panic after Erdogan suddenly fell ill, his driver and bodyguards all jumped out of the car and slammed the doors as they arrived at the hospital, activating the vehicle's automatic lock system as the unconscious prime minister lay inside. They reportedly struggled for about 10 minutes to break the thick window of the armored car, aided by workers at a construction site near the hospital who brought a sledgehammer and a chisel.

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"The citizens who happened to be at the hospital watched bedazzled as the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey was taken out unconscious from a vehicle whose window was broken with a sledgehammer," the Vatan daily wrote.
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Doctors said that his blood sugar dropped due to exhaustion and fasting.

One of the possible reasons the bystanders at the hospital were so “bedazzled”, could be the danger associated with criticizing authority in Turkey, according to Article 301 of their penal code:

A person who publicly denigrates Turkishness, the Republic or the Grand
National Assembly of Turkey, shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six
months and three years.

A person who publicly denigrates the Government of the Republic of
Turkey, the judicial institutions of the State, the military or security
organizations shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months and two
years.

In cases where denigration of Turkishness is committed by a Turkish
citizen in another country the punishment shall be increased by one third.