Can you tell me if it is accepted for a lady to send a Turkish male friend flowers as a get well wish?  I am American and would do it here.  Guys are usually pleasantly surprised at the thought of getting flowers and like to be pampered. I don´t want the gesture to come accross badly if it is not done in Turkey.

I would not do that if I were you..

I have never had any flowers from any girls..

And I dont think I have been  missing anything

You may embarres him..

 I´m even surprised as an American you have sent guys flowers...I don´t think it´s  a common thing women do even here.  Not to say, some men would like flowers.

 Of course it would be so kindly  if you would  send some flowers, no matter to men or women..of course it is so kindly behaviours here also.Dont worry, when we visit someone sick, we prefer to visit with flowers..

Even as an American girl, I like to do the unexpected and be creative.  Are you saying that there is at least nothing that is of tradition that would be horrifying to him if I did send flowers to him?  .......And if not flowers, is there something that I can do that is appropriate to send get well wishes to my friend.  I am trying to be more personal than always using internet for all correspondance. 

 as I turkish man, I would get flowers...we do live on the earth also..why we wouldnt get some flowers..

just be careful to send alive flowers, some hospitals do not accept them due to allergy, you  had better send  artifical if you are going to send to hospital..

He is not in a hospital.  He is not super sick.  I only wanted to show caring from far away.  Here in USA, I would make him my best cure of chicken soup and deliver it personally of course. ..and still probably bring him flowers to cheer him up.

 Artificial flowers?    You can´t send live flowers to a hospital? 

 How about sending him a planter?

I think flowers are nice. I have sent it in the past to male friends with different results - some loved it, others felt it wasn´t "manly".  I think showing caring when somebody is sick is a perfect occassion to send flowers regardless of gender - it´s not like you´re sending him roses to profess your undying love (in that case I´d say wait for him to send the flowers lol). Anyway, if you´re hesitant to send the flowers, I´d send some sweets or something like that - just makes sure not to send anything with gelatin if he doesn´t eat pork products.

Well

Clover..Since you want to be creative, unexpected and MORE personal..ermm..

what about something like you are wearing right now?

 Ãf he just had a vasectomy i dont think will be a good choice

just do whatever you want. you can not check every your decision or change yourself in accordance with:

1. .....

2. ....

3. ... etc

train your friend to accept you as you are, with your wish to present him flowers )

Reyhan..

I was thinking something like her shoes or her socks!!!! What are they got to do with vasectomy? 

And a Turkish man will never agree to have vasectomy..The chance he has had a vasectomy  is negligable here..

What were you thinking?    OMG..

 Aaa..she can give him the shoes..but she seems to care for him. So you only could think at ..underwear.

Sunflowers for any decent Turkish man....with good sized and full seeds, ready to be salted...

Thank you.  I like the idea of sunflowers.  They would be so cheerful.

i think you can send flowers, but you need to be careful with choosing which ones.sunflowers here is on all corners as they are for seeds and for oil, so i dont think that it will be something special even they look so cheerful.Good luck!

Thank you.  i didn´t know they were like that.  In America, there are no seeds in the kind that you woild send for a bouquet too someone.

I don´t think she should send pansi(e)s!  

 ??? what is your problem? why i cannot say my opinion? i am living in Turkey for 2 years and my friends are not affraid to get flowers from me

Oh dear  - it´s that language barrier thing again!   No problem at all Pansi - just my little joke, you see ´Pansy´ in the UK is a word people use/used for a gay or effiminate man.  Sorry if I upset you 

This barrier thing really can get annoying , offending when no offence was meant I knew where you were coming from but obviously not all did. 

Just in case it is still not fully understood the pansy is a flower , but describes an effiminate man as well.

 actually you did and i am not a man, more i dont see it funny to make jokes about nicknames or NAMES.more as we are all writting in forum - we all have rights to share our ideas about topic

I wasn´t making a joke about your nickname or your name dear - don´t be so sensitive.  I was making a joke about the name of the flower associated with your nickname.  Please don´t be one of those members who wants to turn everything into an argument - we have quite enough of them already.

i personally would like to get flowers but it wouldnt melt me as it does melt girls and something about men would be a better gift. like ermmmm playstation

 Gimme your address,please,I´d like to embarres you!

I am sure you will like that 

 ..and you´ll see what you´ve been missing!

He would prefer to be embarrassed with a laptop!  .  Could you find one decorated with flowers?  Something like this perhaps?

 Perfect! Very suitable for theH.!!!

Gorgeous isn´t it??  

 Yes, especially that the flowers are pink......

I am fairly sure that my husband, who is the biggest tightwad in history, would be very upset that I "wasted" money on such a silly thing.  I can hear him now, in his Turkish accent, "Why you are sending to me flowers?  Am I made of money that you can send this?  Why you can´t bring to me some soup?"

Psstt.....Lis....didn´t you marry a rich guy?  What´s wrong with you???? 

 Are  you joking....my husband has the first penny he ever made!  And besides....I married for love...and because my husband is a hot Turkish guy.

The sunflowe can be of any kind, so long as it is wrapped up in a brand new, navy blue sports Mercedes...That would definitely win his heart...

Ý think a funny personalized mug will be a nice gift for your friend.

Thanks for the ideas.

I already have a sexy laptop that I would share with him if we were in the same country. I would definitely make him the best soup in the world that would cure everything if we were in the same country. I will share my car  (not quite a mercedes) if he were here.  I must first teach him to drive.......I think a guy likes some extravagance spent on him and will enjoy the surprise because it is not expected.  Fortuately, he is recovered pretty much since I was trying to decide if sending the flowers was an appropriate thing to do.  I will wait util another occasion to do so.  Thank you everyone for your suggestions.  I am always open to other gift ideas for a hot Turkisk guy for other occasions.  Do you give gifts for birthdays in Turkey?

Birthdays?

Turkish men come out of crocodile eggs !

wueks ... cheeky!!!

actually, have you ever thought about what if the difference between ask and sevgi causes all this turmoil? because, lest if there were not the haunt about sevgi, many people could coop up with ask, without getting clinged into an interest - paying romance.... delimit emotions, in exchange they will limit you...

I think it is bad idea .. guys dont like flowers so much maybe he will get blushed.. you are from America woooow so far from Turkey..

þu yabancýlar komik ya taa Amerikadan çiçek yollucak ..  aþk bu olsa gerek xD

 lol..Don´t worry I don´t think she was going to send them all the way from USA, probably she would have found florist in Turkey and ordered them there..    (did you blush ? ) 

ayy çok utandým .. taa Amerikadan buraya çiçek yollamayacaðýný bende biliyorum .. ama garip yani dünyanýn diðer ucundan tanýmadýðý birine çiçek yollucak .. hemde bir kýz erkeðe yollucak .. mmm interesting xD

   ok sorry then ..I see what you say and agree with you ....hmmm well maybe it´s the modern man who can accept flowers....    One day all men will have flowers I am sure lol hahaha

haha maybe because period getting changed.. girl to boy - boy to girl looooll...

yolda yürüyen bi insanýn kýzmý erkekmi olduðunu zor anlýyorum. düþün artýk nasýl bi dönemdeyiz xD

Don´t send flowers to your Turkish man - they will go straight into the bin.  Send something of value - a laptop, cell phone perhaps?  Failing that a big wad of cash always goes down well

 Awwww you will take the wind out of her sails................ I am sure someone like Graham Norton would really appreciate a lovely bunch of flowers

Oh btw those of you who are unsure who Graham Norton is, he is sort of "in touch with his feminine side"

I like men who are in touch with their feminine side - but only to go shopping and gossip with!

And I don´t like men who are in touch with their feminine side...but I like Graham Norton. I can´t help it, I like mean people (and I loved him in Father Ted "You know what I´m talking about" )

I would think men who are in touch with their partners´ feminine sides are more widely preferred. Your type of men are usually weird...

I didn´t care much about Liberace until I watched a Youtube video of his. He is proof that sexual preferences must be regarded personal and that they have no bearing on who you actually are... Somehow, both sexes seem to have a problem with that...

I knew you like me!!!

Of course I do! Why do you think I still bother replying to ya?

Dobrowski-Turko love!

Vallah bence de garip...

I dont think you should send a turkish men flowers

I guess my bro AlphaF would accept flowers..but he is from other epoch

i used to send flowers to men here in italy too...but it depends from the situation i think.

i think everywhere in the world flowers are common, but only in certain circustamces...hospital, b-day, a new job or things like this...i don´t think it´s an original gift just to celebrate an anniversary for example