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The Bosphorus option

29 October 2018

12:09 PM

29 October 2018

12:09 PM

Failed leaders or pretenders to the throne in the old Ottoman Empire received no mercy.

Having failed the test to seize power, they were doomed to be strangled (the Ottoman code mandated that no blood be shed) and dropped silently into the deepest part of the Bosphorus

The Bosphorus Option or its Antipodean equivalent must surely have crossed the mind of many current political leaders at home and overseas.

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