Actually this reminded me a marching thing we used to sing with the sargent while we were in the army:

S: sergeant P : privates

S: kim geliyor?   /Who is coming?
P: canavarlar   /monsters
S: kim geliyor? /Who is coming?
P: canavarlar  /monsters
S: canavarlar  /monsters
P: geliyorlar   /are coming
S: daglari     /the mountains
P: deliyorlar  /they are drilling
S: kizlari      /the girls
P: seviyorlar /they are loving
S: hangisini? /which one?
P: sarisin esmer kumral farketmez çünkü biz topçuyuz. topçulara affetmez. hey hey hey.

/ blondes, brunettes, darkskinned do not matter, because we are the infantary and the infantary never misses. Hey hey hey

It is kind of like this :

(Kind of "This is my rifle, this is my gun" - from Full Matel Jacket)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U  

 Hummmm....an army of fearsome perverts!  And guess who their leader was?????   

 I have only ever seen one fair skinned Turk and she lives in America and has skin the colour of milk!

I suppose Nifrititi took herself as point of reference? Compared to me all Turks were dark, even despite my best tan If I could choose I´d love to have a darker complexion...too bad with both parents having skin pale enough not to require make-up if they wanted to have the main part in a popular franchise about vampires, I stood no chance

I was never really happy with my extremely white skin. Untillll I visited Turkey! I visited the family of a friend of mine, who never actually saw a foreign person in real life. They were touching my skin all the time, and said it was sooo pretty! Since then I accept the colour that I have, and I don´t try my best to get a tan anymore

I guess people generally want to be the colour that they are not. Dark people want to be lighter. Lighter people want to be darker. People with curly hair want to have straigh hair, people with straight hair want to have curls, etc. etc.

Solariums are full of ladies who are trying to be tunned...Seems they think Turkish man find tunned skin more attractive...

In my opinion lots of man do not have skin color preference, this is a matter for women. The best skin color for you is the one in which you feel yourself more confident. For sure, man will find you attractive in both situations..Especcially in Turkey

I dont know but i think every body like the different for example the dark like the fair and the fair like the dark .

I know the poeple who have yellow hair when they see black hair they are admire of it .

so in my last post i didnt said the turks are white I said fair I mean average not blond not tan .

Oh I mean like you know how in western countries like USA, europe, australia, they like getting tan skin and have all these creams to make their skin tan whereas in asian countries like japan, china, korea they like fair skin and have creams to make their skin more fair.

That´s kind of what I was wondering...

What do the common skin products sold in turkey do - make skin tan or fair?

Thanks for all the replies by the way!

Maybe this is just my own experience... like I mentioned before, people have complimented my white skin in Turkey. All the people who thought my whiter than white skin was pretty, were from more traditional villages or towns. The people who thought I should go sit in the sun and get a tan were from more beachy tourist resorts. They clearly preferred a tan on a girl.

I was thinking... perhaps it has something to do with how you get a tan... If you live in a tourist resort, and you´re white as milk, it probably means you have an office job and are locked up inside all day. Getting a tan means you have free time, like a luxary. If you are from the more traditional areas that I talked about, you get a tan if you work on the fields, picking tomatoes, cotton, etc. If you are white, it means you are not working, but being the proper housewife, staying all day inside the home.

Any thoughts on this?

 Cosmetic shops are full of self-tanning creams and lots of bronzing facial powders are sold as well. The first question about skin color was a bit unclear about what you were looking for. Skin color isn´t really an issue here. Foreign people are appreciated and well liked here. However, that is not due to their skin color. Turkish people are attracted to what is different. So the extreme from light to extremely dark are appreciated. Mostly, they are curious about other people as many have never met a foreigner before. I get stopped alot and asked to pose for pictures by men and women. Whole families stop and stare as I walk down the street. When my Swedish best friend and i walk together we can literally stop traffic as people can´t drive and stare at the same time. It has nothing to do with beauty. It has everything to do with curiosity. It can be annoying. I just try to imagine what it must be like to grow up without really knowing a lot of different people.  I more likely than not will say no to photos but will just smile when i see people staring and say ´Merhaba´ then they will smile back, say ´merhaba´ and turn around. There is some racism here and it´s unfortunate. I have experienced it as well as some of my Russian friends. On the whole, there is curiosity and appreciation for what is new and different. Keep in mind, while I have travelled quite a bit in Turkeky, I live in Istanbul and my opinion is based on largely my experiences here.

When it comes to hair, without doubt it´s straight hair that people love most. I have long curly hair. When i got it cut the hair dresser begged me to let him blow dry it straight. I love my curly hair but I also love trying new things so I allowed him to. Well, i was stunned by the number of Turkish people that stopped to tell me how much ´better´ I looked with straight hair. My foreign friends all love my curly hair! It´s ironic. I wear it straight or curly depending on my mood. But, curly hair is something that they don´t like very much at least that is my experience.

Actually  a very interesting discussion is going here..