RE: LeoThread 2025-03-01 01:26

Thanks for the clarification! I double-checked, and you are right.

The proverb was used by a Turkish reporter as "Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz ama saray ahır olur" in a criticism, against Erdogan - and she was detained for ‘insulting’ the Turkish President.

Later it was reworked and used against Boris Johnson.

Elizabeth Bangs wrote the history of this:
https://elizabethbangs.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/when-is-an-old-turkish-proverb-not-an-old-turkish-proverb/