My humble opinion on the subject is that, in English Turkey is Turkey and turkey is turkey, whether you refer to that known animal or the country with it. Which one you refer to is totally a matter of the context. When I say "economy in Turkey", I am sure that that animal would be the last thing that springs to your mind, just like when we say "Mısır piramitleri"(Egyptian Pyramids), "mısır"(corn) is the last thing that springs into our mind.

We wouldn't wish the case to be so, but the historical fact is that, since the continent Europe had met turkey through Turks (Ottoman Empire of the era), for the british "turkey" is identical to both the country and that animal. I think there is no point in requesting the british and the american to write it as "Turkia" or "Turkiye". What if they started to request us to write "İngiltere" as "İnglınd" or "England"? There are too many disagreements and crisis all over the world; let us not cause a new one between the british and the turks.

Happy is the one who asks people for books as gift! -Cyrano de Bergerac

A Love Poem

To her... who likes ricocheting stone on the surface of water.

The streets turned on blue, misted up my eyes
I smiled, went mad, cried one more time
Neither the sky nor the sea is blue my beautiful love
Four times four nights, between us the four lost symphonies
I experienced the four seasons in your eyes
That all poets tried to describe, all painters draw
The most beautiful blue they are
How could I say now I had a mind
- I was blind, I was blind! -
The streets turned on blue, misted up my eyes
I smiled, went mad, loved you one more time
Look, I beg you, into my eyes.

23rd October'06, Turkey

Any comment is welcome.

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast - Pink Floyd

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Dear Responders,

You all disappointed me enormously. I deeply regret to have to utter that I will not accept your just one or two or few line response. Each one of you should have given, at least, an A4 paper response!

I swear I will no longer reproach for anything. No one here understands, nor pays attention to, reproach.

Right, very very right, I was - "I am not the mouth for these ears!"

Puberty by Edvard Munch