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Question Re: Dolmus
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:06 pm |
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Yes there's nothing more to it than get on and off whenver you'd like, they will stop for you, and they always have fixed routes like regular buses.
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:07 pm |
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Here's some useful information about using a dolmuş.
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:10 pm |
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Quoting azade: Yes there's nothing more to it than get on and off whenver you'd like, they will stop for you, and they always have fixed routes like regular buses. |
Do you literally put your hand out and it stops for you?
yep 
and each dolmus has a plaque that says where the dolmus goes to...
if you wanna get off you can say 'musait bir yerde indirir misiniz?' or 'inecek var'
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:20 pm |
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Thanks for that. Don't know why but its something I've wanted to avoid doing! lol. Wrong stop, wrong route, wrong money etc. Now I've got no choice 
I'll give it a go and see where I end up! 
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:32 pm |
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Quoting MelatyaGirl: Thanks for that. Don't know why but its something I've wanted to avoid doing! lol. Wrong stop, wrong route, wrong money etc. Now I've got no choice
I'll give it a go and see where I end up! |
so learn some turkish words and names of places you will go to and make it easier
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:40 pm |
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Good idea! 
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07 May 2007 Mon 10:43 pm |
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Quoting MelatyaGirl: Good idea! |
so why are u here? go learn something you lazy...
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08 May 2007 Tue 10:03 am |
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09 May 2007 Wed 03:14 pm |
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'İnebilir miyim' sounds easier to me İf you ask that, the driver will stop as soon as he can to let you off, you can also ask more specific like 'Köşede inebilir miyim?'.
The prices for dolmuş vary between 1.50 and 1.75 (rare occassion), depending on the route it takes and where you get on. If ıts crowded and hard to stay on your feet, dont bother to walk and give the driver the money: by saying 'Uzatır mısınız?' and giving the money to the person in front of you, it will just be passed on to the driver. I really like it, you even get your change back perfectly!
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09 May 2007 Wed 03:27 pm |
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girl... follow your heart coz it seems that your heart is taking you to the right path.
i am so sorry but out of my experience as a muslim i feel special,lucky,proud and most of all blessed coz i am muslim (with my full respect to other religions).
it is really an amazing connection between someone and allah(god),so every day when i pray or read quran at dawn or even wear my head scarf i feel that i am not alone and i am so protected with allah and after all when all this life will end i will rewarded for all that so nothing will be lost.
and believe me there some people who r trying to make islam look bad and athers trying to make obey thier thoughts or traditions.
but i say islam is from allah and no body can change it at all .
anyway it just an advice you stay the way you are now and if he loves you he will understand .
i do wish you the best.
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09 May 2007 Wed 03:27 pm |
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girl... follow your heart coz it seems that your heart is taking you to the right path.
i am so sorry but out of my experience as a muslim i feel special,lucky,proud and most of all blessed coz i am muslim (with my full respect to other religions).
it is really an amazing connection between someone and allah(god),so every day when i pray or read quran at dawn or even wear my head scarf i feel that i am not alone and i am so protected with allah and after all when all this life will end i will rewarded for all that so nothing will be lost.
and believe me there some people who r trying to make islam look bad and athers trying to make obey thier thoughts or traditions.
but i say islam is from allah and no body can change it at all .
anyway it just an advice you stay the way you are now and if he loves you he will understand .
i do wish you the best.
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09 May 2007 Wed 03:32 pm |
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You might want to copy-paste this in another forum Think you mis-replyed here.
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09 May 2007 Wed 04:25 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: 'İnebilir miyim' sounds easier to me İf you ask that, the driver will stop as soon as he can to let you off, you can also ask more specific like 'Köşede inebilir miyim?'.
The prices for dolmuş vary between 1.50 and 1.75 (rare occassion), depending on the route it takes and where you get on. If ıts crowded and hard to stay on your feet, dont bother to walk and give the driver the money: by saying 'Uzatır mısınız?' and giving the money to the person in front of you, it will just be passed on to the driver. I really like it, you even get your change back perfectly! |
Ooopps, sorry but, I think you're confusing "dolmuş" with "minibüs". It's the minibüs in your case. In fact they are not very different. I don't know, maybe in other cities minibüs is also called dolmuş, but in İstanbul dolmuş and minibüs are two different type of public transports. Dolmuş are between taxi and minibus, they're yellow. In dolmuş, you always sit, and it takes just 7 people. It's more comfortable, it has different routes, different stops, but in theory all the things you said are valid for the two. They stop every where, even if you don't wait for them, when they see you standing by the road, they make klaxon and try to take you in.
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:10 pm |
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Quoting mltm:
Ooopps, sorry but, I think you're confusing "dolmuş" with "minibüs". It's the minibüs in your case. In fact they are not very different. I don't know, maybe in other cities minibüs is also called dolmuş, but in İstanbul dolmuş and minibüs are two different type of public transports. Dolmuş are between taxi and minibus, they're yellow. In dolmuş, you always sit, and it takes just 7 people. It's more comfortable, it has different routes, different stops, but in theory all the things you said are valid for the two. They stop every where, even if you don't wait for them, when they see you standing by the road, they make klaxon and try to take you in. |
I have never heard of minibüs and everybody calls it the dolmuş in İzmir.. They are turquoise-green with yellow here, and the ones in Ankara, who work the same, are darkblue. I will ask Kadir when he comes home, but that might be late because he is going to the kupa final
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:40 pm |
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...and the ones I have used have always been white  - are they not dolmuş?
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:44 pm |
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Quoting reBooped: ...and the ones I have used have always been white - are they not dolmuş? |
The ones İ described are fairly new, so maybe the old ones in Izmir were white. There are white minibuses in İzmir, but they go from small places outside the city to the centre, such as Urla-İzmir, Seferihsar-İzmir, but they are not called dolmuş here. They might be the minibüs Meltem spoke about.
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:48 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting reBooped: ...and the ones I have used have always been white - are they not dolmuş? |
The ones İ described are fairly new, so maybe the old ones in Izmir were white. There are white minibuses in İzmir, but they go from small places outside the city to the centre, such as Urla-İzmir, Seferihsar-İzmir, but they are not called dolmuş here. They might be the minibüs Meltem spoke about. |
Aah I see - well these were from the Kaş region
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:50 pm |
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What Mlt wrote is true for Istanbul, almost every city has its unique transportation "culture" in Turkey, which is sometimes confusing If you're not used to it.
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:50 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting reBooped: ...and the ones I have used have always been white - are they not dolmuş? |
The ones İ described are fairly new, so maybe the old ones in Izmir were white. There are white minibuses in İzmir, but they go from small places outside the city to the centre, such as Urla-İzmir, Seferihsar-İzmir, but they are not called dolmuş here. They might be the minibüs Meltem spoke about. |
I understood the ones you told Esther, we call them in İstanbul minibüs. In İstanbul, they are either blue or beige. Look, these are the dolmuş I'm talking about:
http://kadifhe.wordpress.com/files/2006/07/dolmus.JPG
In fact, it is not wrong to call yours as dolmuş in İstanbul either, but I think these dolmuş in the picture exist only in istanbul, so in order to make a distinction between them, we call them dolmuş and the others minibüs. Both of them work just within the city, but in different quartiers.
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09 May 2007 Wed 06:59 pm |
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Quoting mltm: Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting reBooped: ...and the ones I have used have always been white - are they not dolmuş? |
The ones İ described are fairly new, so maybe the old ones in Izmir were white. There are white minibuses in İzmir, but they go from small places outside the city to the centre, such as Urla-İzmir, Seferihsar-İzmir, but they are not called dolmuş here. They might be the minibüs Meltem spoke about. |
I understood the ones you told Esther, we call them in İstanbul minibüs. In İstanbul, they are either blue or beige. Look, these are the dolmuş I'm talking about:
http://kadifhe.wordpress.com/files/2006/07/dolmus.JPG
In fact, it is not wrong to call yours as dolmuş in İstanbul either, but I think these dolmuş in the picture exist only in istanbul, so in order to make a distinction between them, we call them dolmuş and the others minibüs. Both of them work just within the city, but in different quartiers. |
Never thought a discussion about dolmuş could be so interesting. Or minibüs for that matter
I searched too, couldnt find a picture of the İzmir-version As a matter of fact, some dolmuş-drivers let people stand when its full in İzmir, though its forbidden. I heard the driver can ask you to bend down if he sees police
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:06 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: I heard the driver can ask you to bend down if he sees police |
It seems you are getting used to live in turkey, deli kızın!  Still you are very lucky since you live in Izmir.
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:14 pm |
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Quoting panta rei: Quoting Deli_kizin: I heard the driver can ask you to bend down if he sees police |
It seems you are getting used to live in turkey, deli kızın! Still you are very lucky since you live in Izmir. |
Are you new here? Haven't seen you before and I really wouldve remembered if I did, because I really love your username.
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:19 pm |
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Aaa! Deli kızın! You are really breaking my heart! How come you couldn't recognize me - me, Cyrano, Cyrano the Great, Romantic Poet, the Great Musketeer?
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:23 pm |
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Quoting panta rei: Aaa! Deli kızın! You are really breaking my heart! How come you couldn't recognize me - me, Cyrano, Cyrano the Great, Romantic Poet, the Great Musketeer? |
Ciddi olamazsın, aşk olsun bana. Aşktır zaten Her neyse, hoşgeldin! biraz geç fark ettiğim için özür diliyom ama.. geç asladan daha iyidir
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:27 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Quoting panta rei: Aaa! Deli kızın! You are really breaking my heart! How come you couldn't recognize me - me, Cyrano, Cyrano the Great, Romantic Poet, the Great Musketeer? |
Ciddi olamazsın, aşk olsun bana. Aşktır zaten Her neyse, hoşgeldin! biraz geç fark ettiğim için özür diliyom ama.. geç asladan daha iyidir |
Hahaha! Sağol deli kızın. Naber? How is Kadir? And then Bornova? Ege Ãœniversitesi? And Kipa? I miss them a lot ya...  Enjoy İzmir, kızım, you are really lucky!
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09 May 2007 Wed 07:59 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: Güneş sıcak bir yorgan gibi kendisini koydu, güzel izmirin üstüne, şehir çok daha güzel bir şiir oldu bu günlerde.. |
Wooow! Woow! Woow! What a poetic language you use now! Impressive! Didn't I say you are lucky before? See - Izmir makes people even poet and poetic! (If you had lived in Istanbul, you would probably become a monster now! )
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09 May 2007 Wed 08:10 pm |
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Quoting panta rei: Wooow! Woow! Woow! What a poetic language you use now! Impressive! Didn't I say you are lucky before? See - Izmir makes people even poet and poetic! (If you had lived in Istanbul, you would probably become a monster now! ) |
Have always been this way, but this city makes me wanna say it out loud too
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11 May 2007 Fri 12:15 am |
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Quoting panta rei:
(If you had lived in Istanbul, you would probably become a monster now! ) |
Hey, I'm really offended now! 
Istanbul is such a poetic city. It's important from where you look at İstanbul.
İstanbul has inspired so many poets and musiciens.
I guess you're not a real İstanbullu! 
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11 May 2007 Fri 12:19 am |
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Quoting mltm: Quoting panta rei:
(If you had lived in Istanbul, you would probably become a monster now! ) |
Hey, I'm really offended now!
Istanbul is such a poetic city. It's important from where you look at İstanbul.
İstanbul has inspired so many poets and musiciens.
I guess you're not a real İstanbullu! |
When I read it, I understood it as a 'poetical freak' instead of a monster really! I understood that he thinks İstanbul is more poetic than İzmir but I could be mistaken here...
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11 May 2007 Fri 12:37 am |
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Quoting mltm: Quoting panta rei:
(If you had lived in Istanbul, you would probably become a monster now! ) |
Hey, I'm really offended now!
Istanbul is such a poetic city. It's important from where you look at İstanbul.
İstanbul has inspired so many poets and musiciens.
I guess you're not a real İstanbullu! |
Ahh, mltm, why don't you go to Paris and see the city of poets while in France?
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