Talk:Mahir Çağrı

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1 Was this guy the inspiration for Borat?
2 from Vfd
3 ESC
4 Meta-web?

[edit] Was this guy the inspiration for Borat?

Was this guy the inspiration for Borat? -R. fiend 00:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The Borat page claims so. Tempshill 05:26, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mahir thinks so, and says he is talking to lawyers in London to evaluate his legal options against Sacha Baron Cohen. This is spelled out in the Borat section, which is very up to date (as I write this on Nov. 7). --Spiff666 16:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

According to http://celebs.electronicnewsnetwork.com/sacha-cohen/index.php, Cohen's Borat character was around for years before Mahir's site showed up.

[edit] from Vfd

On 3 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Mahir Cagri for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 15:47, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Yay, the system works! Tempshill 05:26, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ESC

When Sweden was arranging the Eurovision Song Contest, they had the Mahir Cagri webpage as an introduction to Turkey, (mostly to show that Sweden was a high-tech country with a lot of computerization.)