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welcoming the new year in Taxim Square!
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25 Dec 2007 Tue 11:08 pm |
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Quoting zbrct: A few years ago an English girl celebrating the new year with his boy friend was harrased by a group of Turkish guy. In another incident, a group of tourist girls were harrased by tens of Turkish people in the square.
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This is something happens almost every year. Those of you who can read Turkish please read the following link and if you can not read it, just watch the video:
http://www.haber3.com/haber.php?haber_id=191521
I would prefer a better place to celebrate the new year.
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25 Dec 2007 Tue 11:13 pm |
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Taksim works miracles on Brits..
Remember British football hooligans baring their asses to public in the middle of the square...only few years ago?... 
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25 Dec 2007 Tue 11:13 pm |
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Quoting zbrct: A few years ago an English girl celebrating the new year with his boy friend was harrased by a group of Turkish guy. In another incident, a group of tourist girls were harrased by tens of Turkish people in the square.
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Sexual psychosis
Even though the westernized and modern segments of society are more liberal and open in their approach to sexuality, it’s obvious that most Turks are still in a dilemma on the topic. In many cases these stringent sexual taboos have created a sense of sexual psychosis in Turkish society. Considering such attitudes, it’s often no wonder that we see such mind-boggling violence as “honor killings†where young boys are encouraged to kill their own sisters, often on nothing more than a rumor as to her “looseness,†or we see cases of adolescents blatantly harassing women in public, something which was most startlingly demonstrated during the New Years festivities in Taksim square when some Croatian tourist girls were molested, taunted, groped and even knocked over in the middle of the square by a mob of laughing revelers, all of which made the front pages in some of the biggest newspapers in Turkey. But this is just the most extreme manifestation of a widespread phenomenon of the objectification of women as either “mother†or “whore.†Many women are daily molested, followed, manhandled, verbally and physically harassed – and sometimes much worse. Women who are “modern,†who dress “openly,†or who are simply foreign/western, are often assumed by Turkish males to be “easy†and thus willing for sex and obvious targets for advances, even if it goes to the point of harassment and violence.
In a developing country of discernible have’s and have-not’s like Turkey where the income distribution gap is wide and widening, some parts of society have a standard of living and way of life on a par with the most modern societies, while other classes live distinctly different lives in which they have no possibility of accessing private schools and hospitals (which are the best in Turkey), in which they are increasingly conscious of themselves as the under-classes, as alienated and estranged elements of society in which they are between being rural and urban in a state of socio-cultural limbo. They are often ridiculed by the westernized elite as “kiro†or “maganda,†they are shunned and forced to live marginal existences on the fringes of the dominant popular culture, the culture that is upheld by the mainstream media, by the press, television, newspaper and magazine culture where every day the underprivileged see glamorous, scantily-clad women who inhabit a world beyond their reach. The sexual taboos and traditions they have been brought up with – many of them first or second generation migrants to Istanbul from rural Anatolian towns – clash with the sexually free, alluring, seductive life all around them, the models on TV, the glamorous girls in nightclubs where they’re not allowed in, the faces in the papers, in magazines and in the movies, everything that they can see but never have and never touch. The commodification of sex and its use as a marketing and advertising tool by businesses and media further add to the feeling of alienation and estrangement felt and instilling the feeling in large segments of the population of being cultural outsiders in their own country. The result is a societal psychosis whereby the fringe elements assume a counter-identity and an aggressive counter-assertion of their own sexuality which comes off even more extreme, alien and intractable. That which cannot be had is despised, dehumanized, yet desired all the more strongly for it precisely because of its exclusiveness.
For the whole article:
http://www.timeout.com.tr/yazi_goster.php?artID=500
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25 Dec 2007 Tue 11:20 pm |
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more on the harrasment in taksim suqare
the news in Turkish about the harrasment of two English tourist girls which happened last year:
http://haber.mynet.com/detail_news/type=Life&id=A010253F&date=01Ocak2007
In this one (with video clip) they celebrate the foundation of Turkish Republic by harrasing tourist girls:
http://www.ensonhaber.com/news_detail.php?id=14610
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25 Dec 2007 Tue 11:26 pm |
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Quoting zbrct: more on the harrasment in taksim suqare
the news in Turkish about the harrasment of two English tourist girls which happened last year:
http://haber.mynet.com/detail_news/type=Life&id=A010253F&date=01Ocak2007
In this one (with video clip) they celebrate the foundation of Turkish Republic by harrasing tourist girls:
http://www.ensonhaber.com/news_detail.php?id=14610
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go on zbrct.. thanks for finding and giving the examples I was too lazy to do it to support what I wanna say. I appreciate your efforts and energy to make the issue clearer.
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 12:10 am |
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Quoting AlphaF: Taksim works miracles on Brits..
Remember British football hooligans baring their asses to public in the middle of the square...only few years ago?... |
baring asses is a sort of expression to protest or to humiliate the enemy. a shamefully strange guesture 
there was a singer who stripped his ass at the concert just in front of a prime minister to show his disgust to the political decisions.
unfortunately its becoming more popular.
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 12:23 am |
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Your Brits were humiliated all right....They must have stopped baring their asses in public, since... 
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 12:27 am |
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Quoting AlphaF: Your Brits were humiliated all right....They must have stopped baring their asses in public, since... |
yesss. and the brave turkish race showed the whole world how they punish people showing asses in public... slaughtered 2 of them. ha Alpha?
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 08:02 am |
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Quoting kedycan: Quoting kafesteki kus: Quoting kedycan: hahah, I started a forum topic for the first time and no one joned...  this must be a record ha?
anyway I will support my thoughts.. let me post myself agreeing statements  |
Another one in trans)))Are you incarnation of Hamlet or you have just read James Joyce?? |
I studied english language and literature at university...
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That clarifies a lot your preaching attitude  
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 09:42 am |
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Lol, I was in Taksim last year to celebrate the new year, but nothing happened really...
does that mean I'm not very touchworthy?
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26 Dec 2007 Wed 10:09 am |
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Slanderers exposed now. The truth speaks..
You were probably very beautiful my dear. Turks appreciate and respect beauty... 
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