And this guy calls himself a diplomat

Egemen Bagis, the Turkish minister in charge of negotiating his country's entry into the European Union (don't hold your breath), defended his country's 10% threshold to enter parliament by pointing to Israel as a country that could benefit from the same rule (Hat Tip: Joshua I). “In Israel, they have a foreign minister who flushes the toilet as he speaks on radio,” State Minister Egemen Bağış