The book 'ince memed' by Yaşar Kemal shows how arranged marriages can affect the life of entire villages.

ince Mehmet fell in love with a girl, Hatché (this is her name in the dutch translation :-S I find it a rather weird name translated like this!), but she was already 'promised' to the cousin of Abdi Aga (the 'boss' of 5 villages). The aga abused a lot of his villagers and wasn't loved. However, Hatchés family couldn't refuse the marriage proposal and they agreed. Hatché and Ince Mehmet decided to run away, but they got caught. Mehmet killed the fiancee of Hatché and shot Abdi Aga too. As Mehmet escaped and became a bandit in the woods, Hatché was brought to prison. I haven't finished the book yet, so more than this I don't know.. but many villagers suffered only because they didn't let those two young lovers marry!!

Now that I think of it.. actually YOU are Miss Turkishclass, Marzena

I think only Admin can be the real Mr. Turkishclass
So this is a useless contest

I didn't see the contest as sexistic or anything in any way, for the reason that Yusuf was the one who came up with the idea in the first place! Knowing him slightly gave me the feeling he had not such intentions what so ever.

I don't understand the fuss about it. It's not like the 'miss turkishclass' will get something to make the others jealous and it's not like you should be ashamed if you're not voted for???

Wow I got a vote That's sweeet In this case I like the contest



I think we had something similar before, but I can't remember??


I vote for Aenigma x and Slavica.

Well in 3 months you won't learn much more than the basic Turkish I have It's really hard to learn a lot in 3 months, but you'll get the basic and I always think that once you at least made a start, it will stay in the back of your mind till you have time and opportunity to work further on it

I had around 9 months of Spanish class, but I really just fooled around and I don't speak a word now. The teacher I had made it easy to cheat, i even used to swap tests with a friend: she would study vocabulary and I would study grammar. So i made the grammar parts of my test and she would make the vocabulary parts of her test and then we would swap and i would make the grammar parts on her paper and she'd make the vocab ones on mine!!!
So I really didn't learn anything except grammar rules, but i dont know the words to apply them to
However, I did keep the material and I will study in free time once I enter turkish uni and speak it fluently.