If you were to come to where I live, I could warn you about dangerous critters that live here. Things like Black Widow spiders, Brown Recluse spiders, scorpions, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, ticks, rattlesnakes, stingrays, deadly mushrooms and sharks. That's all I can think of in my area now When one goes to foreign areas they don't know what to look for.

I stepped on a rattlesnake once, and have numerous friends who have been bitten by brown recluse spiders (it's really quite a horror) and I know people who have shot large bears that entered their homes. In the Western US, I know to keep my eyes and ears alert for rattlesnakes and the other creatures. In other parts of the USA are the deadly poisonous cottonmouth, copperhead snakes.

What dangerous critters are in Turkey and where are they?

Dudu's!!!

Ok....until now I have managed to stay out of all this Dudu talk but I just could not resist!!!!!

Turkey obviously is a huge country with much of it mountainous. It has a variety of snakes, spiders and insects. Also there are different sizes of cats, coyotes and wolves. Bears? I don't know. Lets not forget about the jellyfish in the bogas waters. They can leave quite a sting.

When I was serving my military duty in Narlidere, Izmir, I learned that there are lots of wild boars in the mountains on the Aegean coast. (Like everywhere in Turkey). We were marching to somewhere as a group of 30 or so soldiers then we came accross with a flock of boars about as many as we were. They stopped somewhere further up from where we were on the dirt road that we were climbing. As there was no going back we had to face the animals. We didn't have any rifles or weapons and were completely unprotected if the animals decided to charge us.

I intinctively began picking up some rocks and some others found some sticks. Then we saw the sergeant running to us calling us idiots yelling you can't scare a boar with rocks or sticks. We learned that even a bullet from a pistol would not penetrate its thick hide and here we are talking about 30 boars with razor sharp teeth.

We saw the same boars back in the barracks a few days later. The soldiers who lived with them for years have kind of domesticated those wild boars and they regularly visit their premises for free food.

Turkish nationalists are the most dangerous creatures in Turkey nowadays

Ouh! You have some scary creatures!!! I love boars, but Alemeda, I don't know where you live, but I am NEVER visiting you!!!!!

We dont have ANY dangerous creatures where I live - not even Dudus