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90.       Trudy
7887 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:05 pm

Quoting SuiGeneris:

Quoting Trudy:

Quoting uYkuSuz:

herşeyin bir ilki vardır



Please translate, these words are not in my dictionary.



herseyin bir ilki vardır means that "everything has a start"

Teşekkürler!

91.       CANLI
5084 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:27 pm

İ keep reading and reading all those posts and i don't find the problem till now !

There is something i learnt,and i found it it really leads to a good understanding. 'my man taught it to me '

Why don't all of you before posting or before attacking i must say,why don't you put yourself in the other one shoes ?!

Here we have 2 sides,West,and Türkiye,or maybe that goes for all the East too,but here we are talking about Türkiye.

İn the West people have been hearing and watching their Media,and know Türkiye,or hear about it from there.

So it is a life time for them.

Maybe some come here to understand,maybe some come to attack,that is irrelevant,in the end,they only know what they have heard.

You,Turkish people i mean,love your country,you have your own way of thinking,of believes,which they don't understand.

So isn't it part of loving your country to explain your view to those people ?

Maybe some will accept,maybe some will understand,and even those who doesn't accept,maybe they will stop attacking because they understood you have a piont,and it is your right to be different.

İsn't it part from your love to your country to let people understand that those point of view coming from a great history,not a shallow one?

Whether anyone likes or not,history form people characters,form nations characters.

İts not some nice,or sad stories written in a book.

İts a life of whole nation.

So if you say don't post,don't talk,don't ask ,so tell me.

You are leaving them to their Media to say and convince them by what they want,wheather its right or wrong ?

İs this part of loving your country ?

And in the end,they come and say you can buy camels in Türkiye,and you get mad about it ?

Why ? you were the one who is holding your knowledge back from them .

Of course you can buy camels in Türkiye,as you can buy horses in UK too,but that doesn't mean people ride horses in the streets in UK,or riding camels in Türkiye .

And for those who feel Turkish are aggressive.

You too put yourselves in their shoes,all they hear from the West only criticism.

For their way of living,for their thoughts,for their traditions,for their religions.
You just don't accept what is different from you,and they won't change their thought,their traditions,their character just to please the West,and that is their right too.
İ didn't see West changed to please the East,did they ?
Or its matter of power ?

Of course i don't mean all you in the West,but to honest, the majority.

They just fed up,and you really cann't blame them.

Put yourself in each other shoes,and you will get good communication,good understanding.
And accept each other.

İ say this,and i rest my case,enjoy

Ps: How wise you are my love
Bismellah maşallah

92.       KeithL
1455 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:34 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting SuiGeneris:

the person who insults government of Turkish Republic, the justice branches of governmet, military or the police orginzation openly/directly/clearly is sentenced to imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years

"here it says if it is done in abroad by a Turkish citizen that person gets ban 3 times more"



If you cannot criticise your government, then where is democracy?

It certainly explains a lot about the behaviour on this website....



This has nothing to do about criticism of the government. Sezer, Erdogan, Gul...all politicians receive tremendous criticism daily. In the street, on the television, in the newspapers. This incident is about writing potential derogatory remarks about Ataturk. Lets not confuse the issues here.

93.       KeithL
1455 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:41 pm

Quoting SuiGeneris:



The problem is here... who said that Turkey has democracy totally? lots of people can get angry on me about this but this is what it is... or which place on earth has that utopic thing?

let me ask you? did your insultings Tony Blair change anything? about iraq?



This is another excellent point. As I have pointed out before, the military has more power in this "democratic country" than the military's have in other EU nations as well as the US.

I THINK THIS IS A GOOD THING FOR TURKEY!

This is what keeps Turkey secular. This is what keeps Turkey resolute on issues like Cyprus, an independent Kurdistan, the Aremenian question.

94.       harikayim
103 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:43 pm

Quoting CANLI:



seninle 100% hemfikirim

95.       KeithL
1455 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:44 pm

Quoting uYkuSuz:

there is only one truth.
maybe i m right maybe i m wrong. But if the people do not know enough information about what they re talkin about. How can we discuss about it ? how can they think they are right ? ?



Because through discussion comes education. And people are more open to foreign ideas through discussion then confrontation...

96.       qdemir
813 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:54 pm

Quote:

the military has more power in this "democratic country"



military has more power = democratic country.!?
"....." is an irony?

97.       qdemir
813 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 10:57 pm

"democracy is really cool when it is for me only."

98.       KeithL
1455 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 11:03 pm

Quoting qdemir:

Quote:

the military has more power in this "democratic country"



military has more power = democratic country.!?
"....." is an irony?



Its not ironic. Ataturk purposely set it up this way. He made sure that no follower of his could take the powers he set up and lead Turkey the wrong direction. Additionally, this also assured that sympathizers of the Osmans or any other Islamic based government could not lead the country away from its secularism.
The military is the protector of the people, not the protector of the politicians.
Why do you think that the approval of Turkey's military and general staff is always between 95 and 99%?

What other country do you know where the military is so respected by its people?

99.       femme_fatal
0 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 11:05 pm

canli,
u talk too much about shoes, but nothin. what u brought to this discussion is just super neutral colorless useless words very usual to european pacifists.
i havent noticed any western attacking turks in this forum. learn to differ the words (there is a difference between critisism, discussion, arguement and attack) and learn to use proper words, dear. the word attack is so much used by some people, cos they take everything as an attack or insult (thats how actually behave children or immature grown ups)
the only person who attacks them is me. unfortunately europeans have very little knowledge on history and can bring really very little in here and often talk just rubbish. they simply have no arguements but they strangely join the discussion, i donno for what purpose.
this is the clash of the west and east simply. and very simply the westerners cant be in the shoes of proud easterners and easterners cant be in the shoes of western ignorants.
btw, talking about shoes, i myself am from the east, and i know well (too well) of the mentality. i know what it is to live totally brainwashed in the illusion of false propaganda.
its just a matter of becoming an individual and start using your own brain. a matter of choice to stay without no change or do smth about your own viewpoints developing them.

canli, you advise turks not to change? to stick to the old feudalistic customs and traditions? very odd! very unwise!
the person who doesnt interact, communicate or learn from others becomes a complete idiot whos very limited and awkward in relationships. it is the same with a nation (any nation, dont wanna give a reason to turks to use this as an attack as usual). the more you are closed and isolated and stuck with your own behavour the more emotional and social cripple you are!

100.       Elisa
0 posts
 21 Dec 2006 Thu 11:08 pm

Quoting CANLI:

So isn't it part of loving your country to explain your view to those people ?



+1.........


So many people here, including myself, say, ask, mention things, just because they want to learn, not to insult! One would have to have a very sick mind to come and ask those things just to bug and annoy or insult other people.
Please, please read posts twice before you draw any conclusions or feel attacked. Share your opinion, not in a defensive way. Someone mentioned googling for information here, that's one way to find information, that's true. But can't you see that a lot of people prefer to hear from people they 'know', even if it's only virtually?
Turkish history is such a rich, complicated history. You can't possibly blame foreign people for asking things, can you?? Some questions may seem naive to natives, but believe me, I think I can safely say that the majority here is nothing but eager to learn.

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