Muscat marks the 450th anniversary of the ‘great siege’

Published: September 17, 2015 at 9:53pm

These people write their own satire. One week after all that palaver about marking the 450th anniversary of the so-called ‘great siege’, which is portrayed as the victory of the valiant and heroic Maltese over the evilly Muslim Turks, our prime minister is in Ankara, holding out his begging-bowl to Tayyip Erdogan and boasting about Turkish investment in Malta.

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