Turkish squirt sets world record

Ilker Yilmaz might just hold one of the world’s most bizarre world records.

The Turkish construction worker today poured milk into his hand, loudly snorted it up his nose and squirted it 9.223 feet out of his left eye in what he hopes will be recognised as a new world record.

“I’m happy and proud that I can get Turkey in the record book even if it’s for milk squirting,” said the 28-year-old in Istanbul.

He claimed he is among only a handful of people around the world who can perform the feat because of an anomaly in his tear gland.

The Guinness World Records says Canadian Mike Moraal set the existing record, of 8.745 feet in France in 2001.

“It is really good to hear that provisionally a new record may have been set,” said Sam Knights, a Guinness representative.

Mahir Kendusim, an Istanbul-based eye doctor, said a cavity links the lower eyelid to the nasal cavity, but added that he has never heard of anyone who was able to carry out a feat such as Yilmaz's.

The record attempt was sponsored by a Turkish milk company.