There are conscientious objectors in every country. There are also those who are just afraid and those who consider the whole thing a waste of time.

It is very nice to have you here exclusively on Turkishclass...

At least, the rest of our lives is still in peace.

Cattle names could compete with rocket science in terms of sophistication:

Sığır is the general name.

İnek is a female sığır.

Buzağı is the yearling of inek.

Düve is an inek that has reached puberty

Boğa is a male sığır.

Buzağı is the same.

Dana is a boğa that has reached puberty

Öküz is a castrated boğa.

Furthermore, we have manda which means weaned water buffalo.

There are other words such as camış, mal etc which are used in various locations in Anatolia.

I was in Afyon about a year ago. Our host offered us Afyon kaymak which he said should be eaten fresh. For that reason, it is not possible to take kaymak with you in a car. It quickly becomes oxidized and loses its unique taste.

Some people mix it with honey and some eat it straight.

It is a pity, we take every opportunity to distort some statements in an unnecessary defensive attitude. I am tired of pointing out to how irrelevant many of those are.

For God´s sake, it is an earthquake. It does not have anything to do with Norwegians or Turks. Help if you can and everyone else is invited to do so too.

 What about Denis Rodman

Trudy, organizations are run by people and they are supposed to make mistakes like anything handled by humans and I am not naive enough to claim that the aformentioned organizations are racist institutions.

It is however, those institutions´ responsibility to make sure that mistakes, ommissions and misconducts of this sort are thoroughly investigated. After all, misconduct is unfortunately a frequently observed aspect of human character. When investigations point out to an omission or an offense then those institutions must disassociate themselves from the mistakes of the persons involved in it by offering compensations, making formal apoligies, and by either prosecuting or punishing the perpetrators depending on the nature of the offense.

As you may have noticed I wrote those institutions and those persons. Because we are not talking about a single mistake committed by a single person instead we are talking about a chain of omissions, misunderstandings, and an utter lack of sympathy. Telephone conversations further denote to the presence of ethnic prejudices.

From a legal point of view, there is a death the cause of which must be investigated. There is suspicion over the roles of the family, emergency service and the police. In any modern country, this incident is stringently analyzed and investigated with an eye to establishing justice.

Therefore, I don´t have to restrain my thoughts when talking about possibilities. I am sure about the presence of some sort of omission and I believe any seasoned prosecutor would leave all doors open when handling a case like this with multiple potential culprits.

I am focusing on just one version of the truth the one that involves the treatment the Turkish family were subjected to. I have no problems with Europe being a cradle of civilizations where racism is unheard of. As a matter of fact, we must be talking specifically about Norway. That Norway is in Europe and that Europe is way more civilized than aggressive and oppressive East  are completely irrelevant.

I am sure, anyone living anywhere would complain did anything of this sort happen to them. I can´t understand why some of you are trying to come up with excuses, comparisons etc.

What does it take to say, "I protest" or at least "I dislike the way two of Norway´s major public organization handled that situation?

You are a bit irrelevant here.

I suppose my original idea was pointing out to the absurdity of making generalizations like the one mentioned in the title but instead it has turned into a show of proving how mature Christians are about jokes directed to its symbols...