Diet Coke

Why is it so difficult to say Coca-Cola?

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has launched the opening of a Coca-Cola factory in the western province of Isparta. 

But "Coca-Cola" was insistently and sedulously not given a place in any official statement from the presidency, media or the social media accounts of the government. 

Instead, "Fruit Juice" was brought to the fore. 

But why is that? 

Muslim denied can of coke so she wouldn’t use it as a weapon!

Tahera Ahmad, aged 31, was denied an unopened can of diet coke aboard her United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington just after an unopened can was handed to another passenger. Ahmad, director of interfaith engagement and associate chaplain at Northwestern University,  was told that the refusal to hand her a coke was so that she wouldn’t “use it as a weapon.”