No. Silver ring is a religios symbol for men.

If you marry a somebody you expect to share your life. You expect to make desicions together related to your marriage.

For instance you expect to decide together where you will live, buy a house, grow your children, where you invest your money etc. In a traditional family a man, instead talking to his wife will talk to other male members of his familiy and then will make desicions on these issues.

Of course it is possible that the male members might decide on directions where it is the most to benefit from. In all possible cases, in too tradition families the females have no say but the man and his family may pretend differently until a certain time.

If you think this is not a problem for you then good luck.

It can be a sign of respect but in this case the ones who kiss give the respect and not the ones who let their hand kissed ask for respect. There is reason to be suspicious since the person should not ask for her hand to be kissed.

I agree that it is a sign of respect but it is more common for children. Kissing hands between adults is very limited to certain relatives.

In any case there is strong reason for being suspicious. Most of our members in this website are from West Turkia and they have no idea about these traditional families. If it had been reletad to themselves they would automaticaly avoid contact with those people.

Signs to be suspicious of:

1. If adults kiss another adults hand
2. If there is economical relation inside the bigger family
3. If the family owns lots of land but is very poor
4. If there is a female living in a house of relatives that you can not explain
5. If young female members of the family wear headscarf
6. When walking in the street if female family members are walking behind a male family member (age of this male is unimportant).
7. If your boyfriend has no normal female friend at all
8. If your botfriend listens arabesk music
9. If your boyfriend can't wear a short and t-short in public or he shows some resistance for wearing either shorts or t-shorts.
10. If any of the male members of the family wear a silver ring

You should be suspicious about this family.

There is a whole and unique way of understanding the World behind this hand kissing tradition. I don't want to talk to much on this unique way but it is sick. If my parents were the type of people who let their hands kissed by adults I would stop talking to my parents. It's too sick.

I see your point. When putting it that way it makes more sense.

In short, I think, looking for a smillarity between 'çünkü' and any word that has a relative pronoun (dünkü, buradaki etc) was a bad idea but pointing to the fact that 'için' and 'çünkü' have a relation between each other that comes from their etymological backgrounds, is a good point. To tell the turth, I didn't know these words were etymologicaly connected.

I think your last examples are a good educational approach to the issue.

'lakin' is old fashioned. It is almost omited from the language.

'Fakat' and 'ama' are used. I always pick 'ama' and almost never use 'fakat'.