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Turkey seeks names of YouTube´s Ataturk insulters from U.S.
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:11 pm |
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Teas, pm me your address, I will send you Midnight Express DVD. It is better if you watch it after all this..
I wonder what reward I would get from the Turkish government if I turned in a Turk who actually owns a copy of Midnight Express......Is that why you had to leave Turkey handsom?
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:28 pm |
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Does owning a copy of Midnight Express constitute an insult to Turkey? I own a copy  so I better not tell anyone otherwise they might not let me visit anymore 
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:28 pm |
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I wonder what reward I would get from the Turkish government if I turned in a Turk who actually owns a copy of Midnight Express......Is that why you had to leave Turkey handsom?
I dont think they will pay any reward for me Lis.. It is not even worth trying 
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:31 pm |
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This Turkish obsession with Ataturk is tiresome and ridiculous. I am not commenting on Ataturk himself - he´s not my hero as he´s not from my history book but if somebody considers him wonderful - fine by me. If you want to build him a monument in your garden - go ahead. But if somebody mocks him or makes fun of him they should have the right to do that. There isn´t a universal untouchable so if I want to name my pet pig Ataturk, it´s not Turkish government´s business. Free people are free to joke and/or criticise everybody. Some praise Ali Aðça, some praise Ataturk, others George Bush. Unless you forbid laughing at every single person, you shouldn´t cast stones at those who despise yoru local heroes...
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:37 pm |
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This Turkish obsession with Ataturk is tiresome and ridiculous. I am not commenting on Ataturk himself - he´s not my hero as he´s not from my history book but if somebody considers him wonderful - fine by me. If you want to build him a monument in your garden - go ahead. But if somebody mocks him or makes fun of him they should have the right to do that. There isn´t a universal untouchable so if I want to name my pet pig Ataturk, it´s not Turkish government´s business. Free people are free to joke and/or criticise everybody. Some praise Ali Aðça, some praise Ataturk, others George Bush. Unless you forbid laughing at every single person, you shouldn´t cast stones at those who despise yoru local heroes...
Well said! And plenty of people mock and insult our Queen but do we get upset? No we don´t.
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:40 pm |
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Well said! And plenty of people mock and insult our Queen but do we get upset? No we don´t.
This is a good point.....I often wonder why people get upset when someone makes a comment about a leader of their country. Personally, I really don´t care what people think of my countries leaders. I feel more strongly about protecting their rights to disagree with me rather then being upset about someone insulting a US leader.
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:44 pm |
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This is a good point.....I often wonder why people get upset when someone makes a comment about a leader of their country. Personally, I really don´t care what people think of my countries leaders. I feel more strongly about protecting their rights to disagree with me rather then being upset about someone insulting a US leader.
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:44 pm |
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This Turkish obsession with Ataturk is tiresome and ridiculous. I am not commenting on Ataturk himself - he´s not my hero as he´s not from my history book but if somebody considers him wonderful - fine by me. If you want to build him a monument in your garden - go ahead. But if somebody mocks him or makes fun of him they should have the right to do that. There isn´t a universal untouchable so if I want to name my pet pig Ataturk, it´s not Turkish government´s business. Free people are free to joke and/or criticise everybody. Some praise Ali Aðça, some praise Ataturk, others George Bush. Unless you forbid laughing at every single person, you shouldn´t cast stones at those who despise yoru local heroes...
Then why are you complaining? Please accept this is Turkish obsession  , and do not complain, go and name your pig Atatürk, you dont need to public it here to provoke...
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:47 pm |
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Does owning a copy of Midnight Express constitute an insult to Turkey? I own a copy so I better not tell anyone otherwise they might not let me visit anymore
No problem , but that movie is proven to be a lie by its director and the real character who jailed in Turkia...
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:50 pm |
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Then why are you complaining? Please accept this is Turkish obsession , and do not complain, go and name your pig Atatürk, you dont need to public it here to provoke...
I can never understand why "pig" is used to insult as they are the most amazing creatures. I used to have a pig as a pet when I was young and it was just like a dog. It would follow me around the farm, just like a dog and when I called it, it came running to me. I would go and sit with this pig when there was a storm and it would sit beside me. It had the most inventive name "Piggy"  I cried for ages when it had to go (you know where) 
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04 Dec 2008 Thu 11:57 pm |
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I cried for ages when it had to go (you know where)
where to? to the frying pan? 
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