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A COMMENT ON FRIENDSHIP AND MARRIAGE WITH FOREIGN CITIZENS AND ESPECIALLY WITH TURKS
This world is united. As for another world to live in, there isn’t one as of now.
In this world there is only one race. It’s name is mankind.
In the unique place that each person lives, people from a variety of ethnic groups with a variety of cultures, Gods, and languages also live.
Forget about Turkey; first look at your own countries.
The citizens of America, England, France, Canada, Holland, Poland, Australia, and other countries…
You realize, you don’t live alone in the country that you feel so proud on the inside to live in….
In your country, millions of people from the each of the world’s varied ethnic groups and cultures, [who worship the world’s varied] Gods, and [speak the world’s varied] languages also live.
Can you point to any country in the world where you only find one pure ethic identity?
Of course you can’t.
Can you say that in your relations with the people in your esteemed country that belong to those varied ethic groups, acting as if you knew everything [about them], that there is a cultural difference?
Answer.
For example, in the USA there are 72 nations, 72 separate cultures, Gods, and languages.
For instance, a German citizen can wake up and become a USA citizen.
For instance, a Turk citizen can become a citizen of the USA, Canada, or Australia.
For instance, an Italian citizen can leave his country and become a USA citizen.
There are millions of examples of this.
Have you ever seen an American that says “In our relationship with the President of the USA, Barrack Obama, there are cultural differences”?
Again, have you ever seen a French person from a foreign culture that says “In our relationship with the French President, there are cultural differences”?
Have you ever heard of the understanding that says “if you don’t like it, go back to your country”?
Of course not.
The country that you live in is not a country where considerations aimed only at your race are made…
You’re not the only ones that live in this world…
Please look around you… in your country you can see foreigners who have established homes and who work there.
For example, you can see Turks, Chinese, and Japanese who have established themselves in your country.
Every day you greet each other.
For example, an Asian, and African, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian, and a Balkan who live in your country all have the same rights and are bound by the same laws.
And they also, just like you, set up work, go to the army, reside, and pay taxes there.
In other words, between you and them, there is no single exclusive right.
You live equally with them.
Can’t the person who works beside you, or the friend in your life, or your neighbor be a Turk or some other foreigner who became a citizen of your country?
Do you look at their ethnic identity, or do you forget their ethnic identity and look at your friendship? Or do you just cast them out?
Answer the question for yourselves.
The important thing is to be a person of good quality. The important thing is to raise people of a high quality; being an ordinary person is not a special feat.
In the world, there are few people of high quality; but the high quality people are the [same as the] high quality people of every country in the world.
As long as it’s this way, as long as there’s one world and one world culture, the way that some people study the Turkey’s ethnic groups – including the way that they analyze them and criticize them… displaying this type of approach is an action and behavior that is false, that is not right, and that is not seen as good.
It’s as if these people are all Prime Ministers, saving the world…
As for the reason that this approach attracts attention… it can’t be understood.
It is not possible to not find this strange. Isn’t this a behavior and thought to be a little bit amazed at – that’s defies logic and science?
Answer this question also for yourself.
Because anyone who criticizes other countries should stop and first look at their own country, and at the esteemed ethnic groups within.
In other words, he should look at himself in the mirror first.
Do you know history? History says: Of course, the Turkish Ottoman Empire was formed from a variety of ethnic groups.
Some of the mothers of the Ottoman Sultans were all European.
Now, the Turkish state’s people, like the Ottoman Empire, are also founded upon a variety of ethnic groups.
Everyone who is found within the Turkish peoples, whether they are Laz, Çerkez, Süryani, Rum, Kürt, Yahudi, Arap, Alevi, Aranavut, Mekadon, Balkan, Ermeni – whoever they are, they are all Turks.
According to Turkish laws, everyone has the same legal rights to freedom and democracy.
And these ethnic groups are reflected precisely within the Parliament.
After I explain things in this way, I ask you:
If your spouse, or your coworker, or your neighbor were a Turk or were another type of foreign citizen, what would it mean?
Let me give you the answer to this as well.
(This is, at the same time, the interpretation of the scientists, the sociologists, and the psychologists.)
What would you making friends with a Turk, or furthermore getting married to one and creating a new family, change?
This is, furthermore, your cultural richness and perfection: the things that bound everyone to each other, the love, the social ties, and the humanity.
Everything else is empty and meaningless.
Everyone lives their faith freely, however they want.
If an explanation is going to be given, then everyone should explain it for themselves.
People don’t have the right to decide this for others.
For example, a foreigner who gets married to a Turk gets introduced to the Turkish culture, and sees festivals that he has never known before, encounters beautiful and respected behaviors, eats delicious festival foods, becomes knowledgeable about the grandest world civilizations that have ever come and gone; in the end he experiences the great and beautiful richness [of that culture].
If only everyone could do this…
The important thing is to be able to be human,
The rest is only something that you will know…
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