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Turkish soldiers killed at border today...
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 12:02 pm |
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Quoting vineyards: There is actually the thought that foreigners peek fun at the English name of our country on account that it also means guniea fowl. I find either making such jokes or taking them seriously equally pathetic. |
+1000 Actually I never heard any jokes about Turkey and turkeys. After all, the turkey bird was named after Turkey the country - not the OTHER way round  !
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 02:19 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Quoting vineyards: There is actually the thought that foreigners peek fun at the English name of our country on account that it also means guniea fowl. I find either making such jokes or taking them seriously equally pathetic. |
+1000 Actually I never heard any jokes about Turkey and turkeys. After all, the turkey bird was named after Turkey the country - not the OTHER way round ! |
I have never heard any jokes about Turkey either. But I happen to love both Turkeys. Gobble Gobble...
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 02:55 pm |
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Wow, as I read these posts all I can think is history truly repeats itself and we learn nothing from the mistakes of the past. It seems as we progress in science and technology, we regress as human beings. I dont care who dies today, the point is someone died. That person was a child, a brother, a father, someone's wife or husband, someone's best friend. That person meant something to somebody. I am concerned as a US citizen for every race or color.
My empathy does not stop at the US border. My heart aches for all the suffering throughout this world, the children starving, the war torn, the forgotten.
I can make a difference by being tolerant of others and respecting that we are not all the same in color, culture, language but we are all human beings. We all bleed the same, and we all die.
I can teach my children that all life is beautiful, and it is not okay to be judge and jury.
I can love and embrace my husband's culture, for that is what made him the beautiful person he is today.
I can remember to do anything and everything I can to make this world a better place and not live my life in vain.
How about we quit pointing fingers at each other and decide to find different ways to make this life better. Maybe the wicked will began to be outnumbered instead of becoming our leaders.
That was just my 2 cents. Take it or leave it.
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 03:02 pm |
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You are right in your ideals.
But you can hardly realize any of them when a group of terrorist attack your homeland for 30 years, ambush your army and start crying and hiding under skirts of others, when things get rough. 30000 dead here already: How many were killed in the American Civil War?
We shall finish this terrorism, one way or the other, we may then talk about ideals.
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 04:00 pm |
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Quoting nucuk34: I can make a difference by being tolerant of others and respecting that we are not all the same in color, culture, language but we are all human beings. We all bleed the same, and we all die..... I can love and embrace my husband's culture, for that is what made him the beautiful person he is today. |
Well, they are wonderful, somewhat idealistic, statements. I have no idea what your husband's culture is, but what if ( for example) your husband's culture included the selling of young girls as "brides", rape, no education for females, and mercy killings.
Would you still "love and embrace" it? 
Is complete tolerance such a good thing when it can be also described as standing by and doing nothing while other's suffer?
(Femme has pointed this out to me, and she is right ...just this ONCE! )
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 04:18 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III:
(Femme has pointed this out to me, and she is right ...just this ONCE! ) |
 neredesin femme ? i miss your comments
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 09:13 pm |
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Press says Turks have cornered a 100 strong terrorist PKK group in the mountains on the Turkish side.
Make a wild guess, guys.
1) Turkia recently launched a military spy sattelite, no terror groups can go unnoticed anymore.
2) Some other country, who is known to have such survelliance sattelites over the area, started selling PKK out.
(1) or (2) ?
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 09:17 pm |
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or (3) Turkish government, desparate to apease revengeful Nationalists (paranoid that all countries are assisting the PKK) fabricate or exaggerate this story to calm everyone down?
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 09:22 pm |
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I said "wild", not stupid !
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 09:32 pm |
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Quoting AlphaF: Press says Turks have cornered a 100 strong terrorist PKK group in the mountains on the Turkish side. |
How wonderful (and convenient) that this news should come on the 84th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic! 
"The struggle that we have been leading for a long time, as a nation, against this terrorism curse is now being led with more determination," said Turkish President Abdullah Gul after a parade through the capital.
What better way to calm rabid nationalists!!!!
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