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St.Valentine Day
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1.       Deniz girl
39 posts
 12 Feb 2007 Mon 12:45 pm

I wonder do turkish people celebrate this day? Do they consider it as lovings' day, do they celebrate it or ignore it? Really, I want to know..

2.       Müjde
posts
 12 Feb 2007 Mon 07:44 pm

Hi!
As you know, name of St. Valentine's Day associated with Christianity but meaning of the day is sweet for us.So,we celebrate 14th February as "Sevgililer Günü".It means "Lovers' Day"

3.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 12 Feb 2007 Mon 08:17 pm

Celebration is strongly dependent on the people. There are people who don't care/celebrate that day, as many as who care/celebrate.

4.       juliacernat
424 posts
 13 Feb 2007 Tue 10:36 am

"A few years ago I was strolling along the newly landscaped İzmir waterfront in early afternoon. Young couples passed me by, hand in hand. Others sat with their arms wrapped around each other on the sea wall. A few held red balloons. What a lovely town, I thought. Everyone seems so happy. Must be the new promenade. Then I glanced at the calendar and noticed the date. Of course it was Feb. 14, St. Valentine’s Day, that quintessentially Western celebration of love, newly adopted by the Turks.
These days Lovers Day is a familiar fixture in the İstanbul calendar, and shop windows are full of gift ideas. But in the same way that Western Christmas traditions that mean nothing to Muslims have migrated to the New Year, so, St. Valentine being a mystery to most Turks, his feast day has turned into the blander but altogether more intelligible Sevgililer Günü (Lovers’ Day).
Here in Cappadocia the idea has been slower to catch on. It’s true that young Göremelis, especially those with foreign girlfriends, appreciate the importance of flowers and chocolates. But otherwise this is one Western tradition too far for the locals. In Nevşehir the florists are as quiet as ever. Likewise the sweet shops. The only red balloons in evidence are those welcoming a new driving school to the town.
In Beğendik I spot sales staff casting doubtful eyes over their Lovers’ Day display. They’ve erected a veil and tied a big bow of ribbon over a basket of toiletries, but still it lacks a certain something, not least because the crucial explanatory words, Sevgililer Günü, are nowhere to be seen.
The trouble is that until recently most Cappadocian marriages had little to do with romance, and even now many Göreme partnerships are still arranged by the couple’s family. These days most people tie the knot in their late teens or early twenties, but there are still many older villagers whose nuptials took place when they were little more than children. One grizzled villager told me how he had become engaged when he was just 14: “My wife was only 13. When I went to visit her, she was so scared that she hid under the table.” Another reminisced about how his father had been allowed to look at his fiancée’s face for only as long as it took for a match to burn down.
In such circumstances love is something that grows over time, not the bedrock of marriage as is thought of in the West. But television advertising has a lot to answer for, and now middle-aged Göremelis, whose idea of romance would stretch no further than the offer of a sunflower seed, find their wives demanding to know what they will be receiving for Lovers’ Day. They’re joking, of course, but it’s an edgy kind of joking because all of them have heard about the exceptional husbands, the ones who’ve wised up to the new ways of the world and returned home clutching bouquets for their spouses".

Pat Yale, "Hearts and Flowers", Today`s Zaman, 13.02.2007

5.       Deniz girl
39 posts
 13 Feb 2007 Tue 01:38 pm

thanks for your answers!!

6.       catwoman
8933 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 02:40 am

Quoting Deniz girl:

I wonder do turkish people celebrate this day? Do they consider it as lovings' day, do they celebrate it or ignore it? Really, I want to know..


Hmmmmmm..... do they?

7.       catwoman
8933 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 02:41 am

I wonder if serious nationalists celebrate valentine's day... any thoughts, animal mother?

8.       Animal Mother
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 04:50 am

Quoting catwoman:

I wonder if serious nationalists celebrate valentine's day... any thoughts, animal mother?



I don't give a shit any other day except national days.

9.       AEnigma III
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 06:28 pm

Quoting Animal Mother:

I don't give a shit any other day except national days.



I am confused! Should I expect roses from you on Thursday or not Animal?

10.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 06:48 pm

Quoting AEnigma III:

Quoting Animal Mother:

I don't give a shit any other day except national days.



I am confused! Should I expect roses from you on Thursday or not Animal?


he doesnt give a shit on thursday

11.       Cacık
296 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 06:55 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7239005.stm

this is how it goes in Arabia !

12.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 06:57 pm

Quoting Cacık:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7239005.stm

this is how it goes in Arabia !



Religious police in Saudi Arabia are banning the sale of Valentine's Day gifts including red roses, a local newspaper has reported.

The Saudi Gazette quoted shop workers as saying that officials had warned them to remove all red items including flowers and wrapping paper.

Black market prices for roses were already rising, the paper said.

Saudi authorities consider Valentine's Day, along with a host of other annual celebrations, as un-Islamic.

In addition to the prohibition on celebrating non-Islamic festivals, the authorities consider Valentine's Day as encouraging relations between men and women outside wedlock - punishable by law in the conservative kingdom.

The Saudi Gazette reported that some people placed orders with florists days or weeks before Valentine's Day in anticipation of the ban, which is a regular occurrence.

"Sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the middle of the night or early morning, to avoid suspicion," one florist said.

Others were planning to travel to the more religiously liberal neighbouring countries, Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates, to celebrate.

Saudi Arabian authorities impose a strict Islamic code that prevents men and women from mixing.


i told you lol haram haram!

13.       azade
1606 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:02 pm

It's not haram, it's a very commercial day ideal for flower and chocolate shop owners, but it's not haram Why would it be anyway?

14.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:04 pm

Quoting azade:

It's not haram, it's a very commercial day ideal for flower and chocolate shop owners, but it's not haram Why would it be anyway?



awwww
you tell us as a representative of islam
why is it considered as haram in saudi holy arabia? lol

15.       azade
1606 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:06 pm

Quoting femme_fatal:

Quoting azade:

It's not haram, it's a very commercial day ideal for flower and chocolate shop owners, but it's not haram Why would it be anyway?



awwww
you tell us as a representative of islam
why is it considered as haram in saudi holy arabia? lol



Because the people behind the power there are corrupt...possibly paranoid too

16.       AEnigma III
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:07 pm

Quoting azade:

Because the people behind the power there are corrupt...possibly paranoid too



Yes
Cataturk is the same about TC

17.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:10 pm



Quoting AEnigma III:

Quoting azade:

Because the people behind the power there are corrupt...possibly paranoid too



Yes
Cataturk is the same about TC

18.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 11 Feb 2008 Mon 07:12 pm

Quoting azade:

Quoting femme_fatal:

Quoting azade:

It's not haram, it's a very commercial day ideal for flower and chocolate shop owners, but it's not haram Why would it be anyway?



awwww
you tell us as a representative of islam
why is it considered as haram in saudi holy arabia? lol



Because the people behind the power there are corrupt...possibly paranoid too


the power is not corrupt, it stays pure from the western influence, its the society who gets impure to celebrate things that come against the religious aspects.

19.       catwoman
8933 posts
 12 Feb 2008 Tue 02:02 am

Quoting AEnigma III:

Quoting azade:

Because the people behind the power there are corrupt...possibly paranoid too



Yes
Cataturk is the same about TC


No more gifts for you!!!!!

20.       AEnigma III
0 posts
 12 Feb 2008 Tue 02:02 am

Quote:

Quoting catwoman:

Cataturk is the same about TC


No more gifts for you!!!!!



Ooops

21.       catwoman
8933 posts
 12 Feb 2008 Tue 02:05 am

Quote:

Quoting AEnigma III:

Quoting catwoman:

Cataturk is the same about TC


No more gifts for you!!!!!



Ooops


Do you deeply regret and understand your mischief and promise to always agree with me from now on?

22.       AEnigma III
0 posts
 12 Feb 2008 Tue 02:07 am

Quoting catwoman:

Do you deeply regret and understand your mischief and promise to always agree with me from now on?



Ermmm even when it SEEMS like I am disagreeing, in my heart I am agreeing

23.       catwoman
8933 posts
 12 Feb 2008 Tue 02:08 am

Quoting AEnigma III:

Ermmm even when it SEEMS like I am disagreeing, in my heart I am agreeing


Ok, that's good enough for now. lol Small steps at a time...
You can go ahead and sign that package.....

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