we love our country if you call this nationalism yes Im nationalist and Im proud of it. I dont think it s dangerous to love my country. but it s dangerous for my country if someone, like you, accepts and believes whatever some columnists wrote about turkey and post it to everywhere to show as if there is a genocide against other nations in turkey. and someone who always denies every special thing about turkey as u posted some comments about out national events.

I really wonder what u give to my country except insulting every special thing about turkey???

and making ppl believe different about turkey???

 I don´t think there is anything wrong with loving your country.  However, it does become a problem when you can´t accept it´s good and bad points together.

 Every country has its drawbacks to more or less extend,the thing that becomes a problem is ,in my opinion ,when drawbacks are more intensively exposed and used as a basis to form foreigners´ opinions about this particular country.This happens in case of Turkey,travelling across EU and living in some of EU countries I haven´t noticed positive advertising of Turkey in media apart touristic spots.

On the contrary Turkey is depicted as underdeveloped country, which works as a deterent  to accept it to EU.

No wonder that those who love their country ,trying to emphasise its good points,are sooner or later called nationalists here.

I am not sure we are talking about the right concept here..

We are talking about people, allagedly loving their country so much that they can even kill others who think that they are the enemy of the country..

Hrant Dink got killed with the same feelings for example..

According to them you have to love your country the way they want...You can not come up and say that I do love my country but this is wrong or this was wrong in the past..

That is why they planned to kill Orhan Pamuk for instance..

We are NOT talking about love of a country here..We are talking about something else..

This is a common misconception.  People do not change their minds about a country just because of a few newspaper articles, or posts.  People are on this site because they have an interest in Turkey, and unless you are of a very weak character, you are not going to change your mind about the country as a whole - are YOU so easily swayed in your opinions?

If anything, the opposite is true. For example, posts like Chiko´s Survey increase my liking for Turkey and Turks because they are brave enough to criticise and I think "yeah they are just like us".  Posts where every bad thing is denied just makes me see Turkey as some kind of regime.

I think people worldwide generally have not much idea about other countries unless they´re genuinely interested in them. Usually they operate on stereotypes.

 I agree.

 Actually I agree too....

yep, CANLI has become "þamar oðlaný" for some.

what is it you all are agreeing really? 

Canli might be trying her best but with her performance as a mod is terrible...