I beg to differ with you, why do you think they are dressed as females if there is nothing do do with females? Isolation of one part of society gives rise to warped views, expectations and practices in place or reality.

For me, the disturbing issue in that documentary is the violation and theft of a child´s freedome and innocence, not homosexuality which has existed in all cultures throughout all times. In fact, homosexulity is known to exist in the animal kingdom, as well.

A homosexual is not necessarily a pedofile.

What consenting adults do in private is their business, not mine. I really don´t want to know, and I´m not peeping in keyholes, and I´d rather not have it thrown in my face.

"Discretion is the better part of valour."

i was partially answering the claim in post number 101.

pederastry in an isuue
cross dressing another issue
homosexuality another issue
child abuse another issue
...
and sometimes they interwined each other.

i am very sorry for the children whose freedom taken away and abused by sick people.

”Ormanımdan Ağaç Kesenin Başı Kesile”

(Fatih Sultan Mehmed 1451-1481)

“If someone cuts a tree from my forest may his head be cut.”

Old Turks used to have their cult of tree worship. Beech, oak, cypress, juniper and plane were holy trees for them. Their favourite trees seemed to be fruitless, massive, light in color, coarse and shadowing. Maybe as a result of this cultural tradition trees have been planted for centuries in Istanbul. There are certain trees which are prominent in Istanbul until today.

ÇINAR ‘plane’ symbolizes greatness and permanence. It often appears next to a mosque, a tomb or a fountain. Parents often plant planes in the name of their newborn children to wish them long and successful life. The oldest and most magnificient planes in Istanbul are in Bahçeköy area.

The evergreen SERVİ ‘cypress’ guarantees that the ancestors are in the paradise and their offspring is living happily. The greatest cypresses of Istanbul grow in the old cemeteries like Karacaahmet.

ERGUVAN ‘Judas tree’, the symbol of Byzantine, grows everywhere in Istanbul.

MANOLYA ‘magnolia’ grows especially in the manorhouse gardens on the shores of Bosphorus.

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ÇİTLEMBİK ‘nettle tree’ grows in many spiritual and historical places of Istanbul.

In a proverb, ÇAM ‘pine’ is compared with müftü, a religious teacher. In Istanbul pompous oaks spread like huge umbrellas typically on hills.

MEŞE ‘oak’ often gets nicnames like baba or dede. Oaks are often used as wish trees. You can find great oaks for instance in the surroundings of Hagia Sophia and at Sultanahmet square.

MİMOZA ‘acacia’ trees are the mark of spring. Go to the islands to enjoy them.

Source: http://www.istanbulkulturenvanteri.gov.tr/halk-kulturu/detay/envanter_id/197

1631. Ibn ´Abbas said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, cursed effeminate men and masculine women."

I honestly doubt if Ibn Abbas is authorized and qualified to make such a comment, considering both effeminate men and masculine women are god´s own creation.

We are supposed to love each and every creation of god, because we love their creator; says our Priminister.

If that is true, we may have to conclude Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi was Greek. 

http://www.unyeses.net/cellatmezarlari.htm

Cellat mezarlığı 

There is a corner in Eyüp graveyard where the simple square shaped stones have no name or any identification of the deceased written on them. It used to be a cursed place which no one wanted to visit and which out of fear has almost been destroyed by now. This is where the executioners of Ottoman Empire were buried. Ordinary people did not want to get mixed with these merciless men even after death. That is why they got their anonymous final address in the furthest corner of the city.

Executing was a successful craftmanship in the Empire. Cellat Çesmesi (‘the hangmen’s well’ ) in the garden of Topkapi Palace was where the executioners used to wash their bloody hands after finishing their work. There was often an exhibition of chopped heads at the entrance of the palace.

Cellatlar, Müslüman olan kişilerin infazdan sonra başlarını, cesedi sırt üstü yatırarak koltuğunun altına, Müslüman olmayanları ise yüzü koyun yatırarak, başlarını kıçlarının üzerine koyardı. The hatchet men laid the bodies of executed Muslims on their back and placed their head under their armpit, while the non-Muslims were laid on their bellies and their head was placed over their buttocks.

Sometimes the condemned got two graves: one for their body somewhere in Anatolia and another one for their head in Istanbul. That was because the Emperor wanted to be sure the poor provincial vizier or government officer who had fallen into disgrace had really been decapitated. Usually the head was preserved in honey, put into a leather bag, brought to the capital and carried in front of the Sultan on a silver plate.

One of the easiest ways to get executed in the Ottoman Empire was to be born as the son of the Emperor. The executioners often had the final word in battles for the throne. Royalties were never killed by a bladed weapon though: instead, according to an old tradition they had the privilege of getting strangled of hanged.

The executors were often of Croatian origin, later Gypsies. They were deaf and dumb. Usually their tongue was cut in the beginning of their career.

The post above looks like a scary movie scene!

Hangman´s Curse

1509, 1766 ve 1894 İstanbul depremleri

http://avnidincer.8m.com/1894depremi.html

http://www.angelfire.com/de2/zelzele/istanbul2.html

https://eksisozluk.com/22-mayis-1766-buyuk-istanbul-depremi--614416?nr=true&rf=22%20mayis%201766%20buyuk%20istanbul%20depremi

In the view of seismic investigations the biggest earthquake in Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire took place on September 10th 1509. Its epicentre was on the islands and it measured more than 7.4 in the Richter scale. 5000-6000 people lost their lives, huge material damage was suffered. The earthquake caused a tsunami which brought the waves up to the streets of the city. People called the incident Küçük kıyamet ‘a small doomsday’.

The 1766 earthquake befell early in the morning on the third day of eid-al-adha. The death toll was about 4000, among many other public buildings big parts of the Topkapı sarayı were damaged so that the Sultan had to dwell in a tent in the palace garden for quite a long time.

The last powerful earthquake happened in Istanbul in the summer 1894. The disaster was widely described in the newspapers as follows:

Kapalıçarşı kelimenin tam manasıyla "bir facia yeri" idi. Öğle vaktinin halk ve esnaf kalabalığı, çarşının sokaklarından dışarı fırlamaya çalıştı. Fakat sarsıntılardan kapılar kapanmış ve Kapalıçarşı´nın duvarları, içeride kalanların üzerine çökmeye başlamıştı. Sonunda, Kapalıçarşı´nın kubbeleri de çöktü! The Grand Bazaar was a scene of disaster in the full meaning of the word. The midday crowd, public and salesmen, tried to rush out from he streets of the bazaar. But the doors were closed by the quakes and the walls of the Grand Bazaar began to fall down over those who were inside. In the end even the domes of the Grand Bazaar collapsed!

"En yüksek sınıftan kadınların, saç baş dağınık, ürküntü içinde veya üstlerine yalnızca bir sabahlık, bir kombinezon veya jüponla kaçtıkları görülebiliyordu. Her yerde çığlıklar, gözyaşları, ağlamalar, sinir krizleri, bayılmalar, Allah´a, Meryem´e yakarmalar duyuluyordu." Noblewomen were seen escaping with their hair disheveled, only wearing a robe or a petticoat. Screams, tears, crying, nervous breakdowns, faintings, invocations to Allah and St. Mary were heard everywhere.

Denizdekiler mavnalardan, balıkçı teknelerinden, Şirket-i Hayriye vapurlarından kente baktıklarında, çöken binalardan yükselen toz bulutlarını görmüşlerdi. When those at sea looked at the city from their barges, fishing boats, vessels of the steamship company, what they saw was clouds of dust rising from the collapsing buildings.

Thanks for this..

I dont want to think what will happen when ´the expected earthquake´ strikes. The latest estimation was around 80.000 dead by the Institution of Civil Engineers. South part of Istanbul in European part specially would take the most serious hit.

It might be a huge disaster!

Yes it makes one think. Actually about two things:

1. How old is the earth and how short is our life on it. I mean, if Istanbul shakes again after forty years geologically it is almost like today but in the human lifespan it makes a huge difference.

2. How effectively the human brain protects itself against the thought of disaster and death. We may think about the danger for fifteen minutes but no one loses his night´s sleep because probably one day in the future an earthquake will strike and kill thousands. Before I used to think it is living on the bedrock that gives this peace of mind but it is not: it is written in our brain.