Tintin in Turkey?

"Have you ever read Tintin?"  Marash Boy asked his Turkish neighbor.

"Of course," the neighbor answered.

"I was intrigued that Tintin's Captain Haddock uses Turkish expressions!"

"No, really?  What does he say in Turkish?"

"Bashu Bozuk", Marash Boy replied with glee (which, dear reader, means "irregular" in Turkish -- a non-complimentary term referring to irregulars in the army.)

"Well,  I read Tintin in Turkish when I was a kid -- it was the children's supplement in the Sunday paper," his neighbor replied with a grin . . . "It's all Turkish to me!"