Hi there,

I have searched various internet sites and heard from some turkish people who are living/studying abroad and gathered funny
FAQs about TR...
They are all based on true stories abd I hope if any of them includes your view,dont be offended please (And I am sure they dont)

here are some

-do you have internet in Turkey?

-do you have roads??(FAQ from USA )

(after an international dinner of a well respected company)
-wont you get on top of the table and break dishes??
Turk: No,why?
-we have been told that the Turks get on top of the tables and break dishes after dinners
Turk: (blue screen )


(A conversation with an English)
-Do everyone wear fez in your country?
T: no one does
-So everyone wear turban..
T: No
-do you speak arabic in Turkey?
T: Hell NO!
-But arent you arabic?
T: I wish you die away...


(FAQs from Norway)
-its everytime summer in Turkey,so you can swin even in winters,dont you?
T: Have you ever heard of merrideans and parallels??
-...
T: nevermind...

-OH! your face is getting pink in the sun,but you are a Turk,arent you?
T: Nope,I am an alien

(here comes two italian faqs)
-with how many women can you marry???4?
and
-you dont eat pork,so do you eat horse??


(A question from Canada to a Turkish girl studying abroad)
-Can girls study in Turkey?
T: No,i am the first girl who studied in TR....


(A conversation with an Italian)
-do you eat rice with your bare hands?
T: No...with spoons
-Ok,so do you bathe one time in every three months?
T: No we are a muslim country and lots of us clean ourselves five times each day...
-But the TVs say otherwise
T: TVs are one-sided,for example some of the Turkish TVs show Italians as incestive people,who intercourse with their relatives and family members,but most of us know that the Italians are not that kind of people.
-ok,sorry for that but one more question
T: Ok so...
-Do you make skirmishes in the streets?do you use your weiled women as covers??
T: do you have sex with your family members?
-Oh,think I got the answer,thanx

(an arabic man was singing on the TV)
-what does he say?
T: I dont know,he is speaking arabic
-Dont you speak arabic?
T: we speak Turkish
-Are they different?I think they are not too different
T: Nope,they are both spoken via mouth like all the other languages ( )
- ...
T: (already gone miles away)

(pls dont get offended,they are all true stories...Hope u enjoyed)

Attila - I really enjoyed reading your post! It made me laugh at how ridiculous some peoples thoughts are! It reminds me of my how one time my flatmate was in Texas, and she said she came from London. The people she was talking to had never even heard of London! They thought she was making it up! Also, I remember once being in Turkey and talking to some Turks and I said I was from London. One of them said "Oh, my best friend lives in London!" - so I said, "oh really, whereabouts?" His reply??.... Birmingham!

Thanks again for your funny post Attila

Hey Attila!

Thank you for sharing those stories...made me laugh soooo much...



/Aslan

Whaaaaat! Turks don't speak arabic and eat horses? OMG!

hahahahaha. these posts made me laaaaaaaaaaugh! It's true realy about how silly people think sometimes.You know I am the standing joke in my family now because i am always on about turkiye and learning turkish.I try to educate my family about turkiye and they have come a long way so far. ahahaa. When I tell people here about turkiye usually i get a blank face while they are frantically trying to think of where turkiye is on the map.hahaha. Then finally after not being able to know, they ask...where is turkiye anyways?

My nephew is always teasing me about turkish dances and food...and everyone makes comments about turks being arabs. hahaha. i have to sit backin amazement and wonder, what are our public school systems teaching about history?? hahaha.

I guess knowing the truth about all this is what makes turkiye such a treasure to me. Its like a wonderful secret and on one hand i want to shout it out to the world, but on the other hand i dont want anyone to find out about it because i dont want turkiye to change from what it is.

Rhoda

You are right Rhoda, let's keep Turkey a secret from all 'foreigners' No one knows about it yet

I'm with you, Rhoda. Most people around me are the same way.
It's a bit unsettling to see how little our kids really learn about the world while they're in school.

Thanks for the laugh Attila!

i wana add something

foreigner:do you eat people who are not turk???
turk:no we are all vegeterian....

omg... dont tell me these things were actually said...! hehe.. funny!

ok... when i was in turkey... my bf's mother confronted me with what she thought was a very "serious issue"

we were all sitting there in the lounge.. u know.. like u do.. hehe... anyway.. she said to me...
"ceyda"
"yes" i said (waiting for something really serious and almost life threatening by the expression on her face!)
"do u wash ur hands after u use the toilet" she said
OMG I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANNOYED AND DISRESPECTED IN MY LIFE
"of course" i answered, trying not to actually get up and strangle her for her ignorance "whatever made u think that"
she answers, "because i have heard that foreigners dont wash their hands after using the wc and that they dont shower or clean themselves."
I PERSONALLY FINDTHIS QUITE FUNNY CONSIDERING THAT U CANT GET WITHIN 10METRES OF THE WOMAN BECAUSE OF HER STINKING PERSPIRATON... iiiyyhhh...

again bf.....as

her name...ouhh you lesbian??????

heheheee your quotes were funny too!

Hey listen here,two more coming up!

-Do you have "sex" in Turkey?
T: No,we reproduce by stoplasmic division...

(A conv. with a canadian -they really dunno nothing about TR I think,coz there are a million canadian FAQs about TR on the internet )
(The turkish guy begins to write smth to his notebook while sightseeing a place in Tibet with his Canadian friend)

C: So you have an alphabet???
T: No my friend,we scan our body gestures and movements with 3D sensors to send e-mail

3D sensors and scanning gestures? AhhhhA! You ARE aliens!!!

ignorance may be funny sometimes... but the same ignorance is the reason why your fellow neighbors just watch when people are being killed and their country is expolited.


here comes a quote from an american general for the people in Iraq. "they are just a*s Holes who beat their wifes, they deserve that"

this may not be the exact phrase but the meaning is something like that. it was openly said in public and was published in newspapers.

is this ignorance or a nicely created image? it is not easily acceptable to kill people. but what if you dont realy believe that they are human...

Neuro, what you have said is true, but I think a bit 'heavy' for this lighthearted forum topic. I think Attila intended us to see the lighter side of ignorance. Why don't you start a separate thread?

let me add something...,

Could I just apologise for some my fellow English countrymen?
I know this thread was started in a light-hearted way - but some of the questions asked are so ridiculous, it is hard to believe people can be so ignorant in this century.
Unfortunately there are a lot of rude and ill-educated people in my country - I am sorry on their behalf

I have also encountered some strange (silly questions abroad (in fact in the Netherlands) These are my real experiences that come to my mind.

- I saw you patted a dog.
- (me) : Yes, I like dogs very much, in fact all the animals. why is it strange?
- yes, I was surprised when you patted a dog, I thought turks hate animals.
- (me)what??


- Ohhh, don't you write from right to left?!
- (me)No..! ofcourse not. it's arabic not turkish!
- Oh!


(while I'm sitting with friends from france, the turkish channel is open on the tv and it shows the scenes from turkey, then one of the girls:
- what?!! Does it snow in Turkey?


- another time (with Dutch people,I'm talking about the high oil prices in Turkey)
- ehehehe you're very funny. it's cheap in Turkey.
-(me) No, I swear that it's one of the most expensive in the world.
- hehehehe, no it can't be, you know it wrongly. You're very close to Iraq. It must be cheap. We're very far, that's why the price is very high here.
and I could never make him belive me...

And I don't know why, but when an arabic music plays, people ask "is this turkish?"
I can't understand whether turkish sounds arabic because it's my native language, so I would like to ask you, does turkish sound like arabic? How does it sound?

Apologies from the English for all their very funny and ridiculous comments! The English get this as well though.

When I was working at a conference in Texas a man said to me "are you English?" Yes, I said. "ahh I have a cousin in London, John Reed - do you know him?"

Hmmmmmmmmm big place London.... :-S

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
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Before you frown upon the fact that people in some parts of the world do eat rice with their bare hands, you should see the kind of spoon they will bring you in a remote Saudi desert restaurant, if you insist that you must absolutely have one.. You will join the Fingers Club, immediately.

Eating rice with fingers is a tricky affair, which takes a lot of practice to master. First of all the rice is usually too hot to touch for the inexperienced and, unless you are well trained in this antient ritual, you might easily end up with most of the rice in your nose and eyes. That does not look dignified at all.

You will get friendly smiles of encouragment from the Saudis, but no help !

(No offense to Saudi, They also have some of the finest restaurants of the world)

When my mum and i were in Turkey in October we saw a dog that looked like Lassie, she said to Serhat 'Is that an import?', He replied 'no, we have dogs in Turkey too!!'

Bless her!!

Further to the apologies for ignorant English and there are many of them!! Class and age does not divide!

In reply to one message - a lot of older women do not wash their hands after the toilet - I have been witness to this recently on a weekend at what could only be described an "old peoples camp" so the Turkish lady was in fact right to make that observation in a sense

Also the American thing. I was asked if I knew Aunty Betty in Cambridge and did I go to Stone Henge for the day after I told them I lived about 400 miles away.

here is another joke for you guys...a german a french an eglish men and a turk are standing on top of a building.the french man reaches in his pocket and pulls out his franc's and throws them down by saying we have lots of them.the the english man does the same reaches in his pocket and pulls out his pound's and trows them down the building by saying we have lots of them.well than the german man picks up the turkish guy and throws him down the building and says
"we have lots of them"