I have heard about the heavy raining only now. I am so sad to see such floods on the streets and between the houses.

I wrote down my opinion in the EU thread. I am so happy to see Turkey wants reforms and new relationships with other countries. It was time to begin. Good luck!

I read a Hungarian article about Ahmet Davutoðlu´s politic. I am so happy to see that Turkey began to walk on the right way. The Kurd and Armenian questions have to be answered, if Turkey wants to join EU. When I walked in Istanbul, I could feel it already did, because I had a so positive experience about the Turkish people. Istanbul was a very modern city and they could keep the old Turkish culture as well. If I couldn´t see the advertisements in Turkish language, I could feel I was in Spain or Italy. But I saw the bright side of Turkey, so I wish they could find a permanent solution and they could sign peace with the neighbours and minorities at the east borders.

On the other hand, I am not so sure you will win with the EU connection. You can work more easier in West European countries, but I fear the richer EU companies will buy everything in Turkey as they did in Hungary. And you have to controll the borders even harder, because so many immigrants will come from Middle Asia.

You should watch these Turkey videos too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyNg-ve_m7w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YAvfxA6a94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDVpFTiHxbM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBllQ3Uchk

The last two is similar, because the sound is the same, but the video is different. These videos remind me how wonderful time I could spend in your lovely country.

I was last year in Turkey as part of a bus trip on the Balkan penninsula. I could spend 4 day in Turkey and we visitied Çannakale, Troia, Bursa, Istanbul, Tekirdað and Edirne, so we went around the Marmara sea. I still think it was like a dream. Every time I watch the photos I made there, than my very positive experiences warm my heart and soul. I have never thought I will like this country and culture at the first time. I can promise I will visit it again in the next years.

Here is an online Turkey advertisment, what I really love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBllQ3Uchk

I don´t know.  "Tesek" is not a word, because it is "tessék". This has no easy translation in English, but maybe the "please" word is equal. We use it, when you want to speak someone with very politely.

Köszönöm = Thank you

cocoanna: Thank you for the long story. Your family history is really interesting.

Maybe the ending of numbers is a heritage of Turkish influence, but I haven´t heard about it.

The personal pronoun sounds similar too:

Ben - én

Sen - te

O - ő

Biz - mi

Siz - ti

Onlar - ők

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Even my name, Ákos has a Turkish origin. Somewhere I´ve read it means in old Turkish "white bird" as ak-kush.

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Here are some interesting article:

http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/Turkiye/macarca.turkce.html

http://mek.niif.hu/01900/01911/html/index2.html

http://www.ghs-mh.de/migration/projects/language/la_hu_1.htm

Yes, I know. I don´t want any border changes, because I would like to see peace between the two folk. This is the most important. 

I came here, because I began to like the Turkish language. It reminds me to Hungarian. Both of them is very hard to learn for non-native speaker, but it is not impossible.

I don´t know what have you learned about Hungary, but we were conquered for 150 years in the middle age by Turks. This perios had positive and negative effects too, but our culture and language evolved because of the Turkish people.

As far as I know 9% of our words have a Turkish origin. Here are some example:

• Lovaglás: gyeplő
• Törzsi rend, nomád társadalom: gyula, kündü, karcha, kapu, sereg, tábor, bilincs, törvény, tanú
• Népnevek: besenyő, nándor, böszörmény, káliz, bular (belár)
• Vallás, hiedelemvilág: báj, ige, igéz, boszorkány, ünnep, egyház, búcsú, gyón
• Állattartás: barom, ökör, bika, tinó, ünő, borjú, ürü, kos, kecske, disznó, ártány, tyúk, túró, író, köpű, ól, karám, vályú, komondor, kuvasz
• Földművelés: arat, búza, árpa, őröl, ocsú, kölyű, eke, sarló, tarló, borsó, gyümölcs, alma, körte, som, dió, kökény, kender, csalán, tiló, csepű, orsó, szőlő, bor, seprő, csiger
• Halászat: gyalom, vejsze, tok, süllő, gyertya
• Solymászás, madarászás: sólyom, keselyű, ölyv, turul, karvaly, tőr
• Mesterségek: ács, szűcs
• Közlekedés: tengely, szál
• Kereskedés: bársony, gyöngy, bors, tár, szatócs
• Természeti környezet: tenger, sár, szél
• Állatvilág: oroszlán, bölény, gödény, túzok, ürge, borz, bögöly
• Növényvilág: gyertyán, kőris, katáng, kóró, gyékény, gyom, bojtorján, kökörcsin, üröm
• Család: gyermek, kölyök, iker
• Test, testi tulajdonságok: térd, boka, gyomor, köldök, tar, csipa, szeplő
• Lakás, eszközök: sátor, cserge, karó, szék, teknő, bölcső, koporsó, balta
• Ruházat: süveg, saru, ködmön, csat, tükör
• Igék: gyűl, dől, szór, szűr, csavar, söpör, arat

But if you follow this link, there will be better examples with Turkish words:

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language

What I could discover, when I was in Turkey:

kapu = kapýsý

sál = eþarp

sárga = sarý

alma = elma

sok = çok