# The most embarrassed man in Turkey

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759 "2021-10-02T01:52:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![filmstar-en](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759/1 "2021-10-02T01:52:53Z")

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> **[Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58746703)**
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> A Turkish man joined a search party without realising he was the person they were looking for.

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759/2 "2021-10-02T01:55:34Z")

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Also covered [here](https://loweringthebar.net/2021/09/missing-man-found-in-search-party.html), along with a couple of similar examples.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759/3 "2021-10-02T05:09:42Z")

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Years ago I read Rollo May’s [Man’s Search For Himself](https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Himself-Rollo-May/dp/0393333159), however…

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759/4 "2021-10-02T05:52:47Z")

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[![](https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-m-in-search-of-myself-have-you-seen-me-anywhere-ashleigh-brilliant-136-44-10.jpg) ](https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-m-in-search-of-myself-have-you-seen-me-anywhere-ashleigh-brilliant-136-44-10.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-embarrassed-man-in-turkey/951759/5 "2021-10-02T16:03:01Z")

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It is like that common movie/tv moment when everyone is staring sadly at the scene of someone’s death and the “dead” person joins them, trying to figure out what they are looking at.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Np4OojYGixI/maxresdefault.jpg "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (9/10) Movie CLIP - I've Lost Him (1989) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4OojYGixI)

There doesn’t seem to be a trope name for it.