A shoe factory in Turkey had to hire 100 additional employees to cope with the increase in orders after the incident in which an Iraqi journalist he launched his pair of shoes to U.S. President George W. Bush.
Bayda has his shoe factory in Istanbul and said that was what made the shoes.
Now says it has tens of thousands of orders throughout the world, including Iraq and the United States. The shoe is the Model 271 but after the fact he changed the name to the shoe Bush, said the shoe store.
However, the brother of journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who launched the shoes to U.S. president, believes the pair is manufactured in Iraq. Durgham al-Zaidi criticized by people trying to exploit the action of his brother for commercial purposes.
“The Syrians claim that was made in Syria and the Turks claim that they were. Some suggest that bought in Egypt, but as far as I know those bought in Baghdad and were manufactured in Iraq,” he told the news agency AFP.
It is difficult to determine exactly where they were fabricated and that the journalist has not been seen since the incident eight days ago and the judge in the case says that the shoes were destroyed. In any case, Bogatekin Oner, head of exports of shoes Bayda noted that employees recognized the pattern on the news.
“We saw in the videos and in the newspapers. We have been producing these shoes for ten years, so we know them very well and we can recognize them anywhere,” he told the BBC. The employees say they recognized that in the video is the Model 271.
According to the owner of the shoe store, Ramazan Bayda, a U.S. company ordered 18,000 pairs. In addition some 15,000 additional will be sent to Iraq and a distributor in the UK applied to become a sales representative in Europe. Bogatekin said the shoe was happy with the publicity but insisted that the shoe would not hurt to President Bush. “There’s really no shoes are heavy so it would not hurt,” he said.
Muntadar al-Zaidi has been declared a hero by some after his pair of shoes thrown at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Dec. 14. That action is considered a very grave insult in the Arab world.
Bush also called for “dog” and said it was acting on the “widows and orphans and all those who died in Iraq.” Is expected to be tried on December 31 charged with “aggression against a foreign head of state” which implies a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
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