Statue of Erdogan – level 3

04-09-2018 07:00

A golden statue of Turkish President Erdogan was part of a ‘bad news’-themed art festival in Wiesbaden, a city in Germany. The statue was based on the statue of Saddam Hussein which the US army toppled in 2003.

Authorities recently removed the four-metre effigy because, as they said, it provoked conflict by drawing pro and anti-Erdogan demonstrations. The artists behind the statue said that it started a public debate, so it fulfilled its purpose.

Difficult words: themed (with the motive, topic), topple (knock down), authorities (the administration, the local government), effigy (a sculpture of a person).

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