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Thread: A rug trade experience

1.       Sfarog
14 posts
 09 Aug 2008 Sat 10:06 pm

Nice, nice

 

When I was in Istanbul it was so nice and I thought till now that there was nobody trying to persude me like this. But when I think about it there was this man who approached me but then he understood that I am accompanied by a girl who´s native to istanbul so he left.

I just remmembered the story because it was in the same place as this man talks about.



Thread: Turkish Reading Materials

2.       Sfarog
14 posts
 09 Aug 2008 Sat 03:58 am

Me too. I really like the stories and essays here but I need a bit more



Thread: No sign of artists painting the skyline of Istanbul off Galata Bridge

3.       Sfarog
14 posts
 09 Aug 2008 Sat 03:55 am

I would just like to note that a lot of Czech people would really love to get rid of these so-called artists.



Thread: Top court rejects closure, nation heaves sigh of relief

4.       Sfarog
14 posts
 09 Aug 2008 Sat 03:52 am

It´s interesting to see the debate here. I feel a bit strange that I can´t enter it from the inside, but from the outside the AKP party is turning Turkey away from where I, as a european, would like to see it and where I believe it would find the best - EU.

The fact is that becase Erdogan was Pro - EU they supported him but in the last year or so Turkeys credit has fallen greately in Europe. I put aside the obvious reasons (which are not important) like that EU treats Turkey like crap (even ´tho in many ways Turkey has been stubborn also), which creates long and boring debates which frustrates turkish citizens -> they turn away from EU. But from the political, economical and historical point of view Turkey should come into EU as soon as possible. This, sadly, is getting more and more unreal.

Turkeys goverment muslimise the country greately and countries like Poland and Germany who opposed the entrance talks all the time are now even inclined to totaly freeze any talks through their right of veto. There are rumors of political oppresion, fake trials, wide-spread corruption and a videspread religious outbreak which scares the hell of Poland and other more religious states. All this (if continuing) will escalate into another rejection of Turkeys application and will leave it alone on the shores of EU with no real friends in muslim world also.

Please note that I come from a state who has been in EU for four years now and that I am no EU mongler. I would say I am more a sceptic than anything else.
Also who knows something about the history of my country knows that we had a great deal of totality here over the years so I feel really worried about things.



Thread: Top court rejects closure, nation heaves sigh of relief

5.       Sfarog
14 posts
 02 Aug 2008 Sat 12:03 pm

Quoting AEnigmamagnadea:

Quoting Sfarog:

We´ll see what future will bring for Turkey. But I hope it´ll be less of what AKP stands for.



In YOUR view presumably?



If you payed attention to what I said I you´d notice "I hope..."
Anyway there is no doubt that AKP party uses her influence to cripple Turkey´s future no matter what they say and what they (or the people) belive. Since today they just managed to lead Turkey to what all the prejudices say about the country. And if they´ll get re-elected they´ll only continue in this.
Anyways it´s also funny how they abandoned all their promises made before the election. Didn´t even take a year. It reminds me of the comunist & socialist allience we had here



Thread: Top court rejects closure, nation heaves sigh of relief

6.       Sfarog
14 posts
 31 Jul 2008 Thu 11:58 pm

We´ll see what future will bring for Turkey. But I hope it´ll be less of what AKP stands for.



Thread: Top court rejects closure, nation heaves sigh of relief

7.       Sfarog
14 posts
 31 Jul 2008 Thu 12:43 pm

Dang. So many bad news for Turkey



Thread: Interent Porn ?????

8.       Sfarog
14 posts
 29 Jul 2008 Tue 11:45 pm

Quoting catwoman:

-- first of all, porn does not spice up sex life. ok, maybe it does - in a similar way as alcohol, or cocaine may spice up a relationship. however, the alcohol - porn comparison is not quite accurate because men and women are not depicted the same way in porn. pornography depicts females in a degraded, submissive, dominated way and the females often suffer in porn - so that the male can have some sadistic ´fun´. females in porn don´t experience any pleasure, so to say that women like porn is like saying that women like to be raped and abused. no healthy woman would freely like to watch the mainstream porn. it is only about male fantasy of dominance and sexual abuse.

-- some women may watch porn, but the fact is that most women who do, report that they felt pressured and/or intimidated to do so. it is a fact that pornography leads to lower self-esteem, much more serious then usual body image problems, depression.

-- pornography does not exist in a vacuum and is not a product of people´s creativity. it is an industrial product, a product of misogyny and hatred of women. it is a disgusting and ugly expression of sexuality - sexuality where a woman is a piece of meat that the man can cum in the mouth of, can penetrate anally, can give her any amount of pain he wants. these men call women "three orifices" - that´s exactly what women mean to these men.

-- we live in a patriarchal, sexist culture, where women are not valued as full human beings, but mainly for their appearance. in this culture boys are socialized from a very early age to identify their sexuality with objectification of women. once you justify objectification (dehumanization), a lot of cruel and appalling products can be possible to watch and ´enjoy´. so a lot of ´normal´ men can watch porn and not be considered perverted or sick, because our culture accepts as normal at least some level of perversion and disrespecting female bodies.

-- it is wrong to say that pornography has no effect on a person. of course it does. there are countless of examples. it is not a sole factor, but it is a very big one. men who view pornography report that monogamous relationships are not normal or natural, they say that rape is not a crime, it is an acceptable act, they cease being satisfied with sex with a ´normal´ woman and it may even progress to not wanting any sex with a real person at all, it leads to sexual dysfunction... and many others.

-- i am not even going to get into the practices of the industry itself....



Wow. Seriously - WOW!



Thread: Studies in Turkey

9.       Sfarog
14 posts
 27 Jul 2008 Sun 05:03 am

Hey,

I would like to study foreign affairs / international relationships + languages.
You are right that companies like to have experienced workers but you can´t be very well educated and also work. For example I have a good job, working only for about 13 or 14 days in months. So I will be able to study at home while on the distance studies. But even ´tho I have to drop the languages because studying them is very, very hard. Also studying alone or under the tutorship or teachers is a big difference I think.



Thread: turkish to english please asap

10.       Sfarog
14 posts
 27 Jul 2008 Sun 05:00 am

Jeeebus, somebody asks for a translation and there is like a milion of topics about stupid stuff.

You know, just to make you a bit out of a balance, for example I work on the airport in Prague / Czech republic and most of the workers here has no idea about our language at all. They are hired to work for a foreign company. That means Aeroflot Russian airlines has workers who can speak only russian and no czech etc.

well but this doesn´t concern me. Just hate the tone of "my language is the biggest and best".



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