First I want to say: I like this country. Being a tourist and having some business to do with people there, I enjoy spending time there. Yet I am still an outsider, not attempting to move over to Turkey.

BUT, when I read many of the posts in forums and some profiles of the members...and of course met some friends in the chat room, I couldn't help but wonder:
Why there are quite a lot of people 'in love' with Turkey. Many are learning seriously the language, some planning to move to this country and express their love towards it. Of course there are cross-cultural love relationships that contribute to the 'love of Turkey'. And there should be attractive things people experience during their travel...

I like this country, I appreciate the hospitality, I am interested in the east-west culture and history, I respect the traditions...but I won't love this country more than my own nation.

So I am really curious about what so amazing about Turkey...

You are already hooked..

All you need now is a cross-cultural love relationship, to be safely landed..

I don't think it is a case of loving Turkey more than our own nations.

Just loving it a lot, and differently from our own nation.

It is a fascination for the way Turkey manages to mix east and west, and constantly surprise us.

Of course the love relationships, love of travel, love of
different place, having money to spend, nite life perhaps -
All those and many other things contribute to the
different 'Love of Turkey' feelings.

This would be the same of ANY country perhaps.
I'd never been to Canada and then I had to work there. Well,
let me say that I loved it. The aura, the people, the job,
TV shows, nite life. I had no love relationships there.
But it would have just added to the feelings I'm sure.

And I am from USA. There are many beautiful things there
like in Turkey, just different beautiful that's all.

All countries have the same - sites to see, food, beaches,
mountains, history and the people - Ahhh...the people !
Your treatment of the people there will usually dictate
their treatment of you......

The point is, the difference ! ! Love of your own country will never change !....But you can have 'another love '.
For some that love is Turkey.....

Those that write these good things about Turkey are sincere.
They are just a 'gust of wind' blowing through a very
beautiful place I'm sure....some stay , some don't.

Like any other place, Turkey can only be beautiful if you
possess that spirit of being able to see the beauty all
around - no matter where you are.....

: >

Nicely put Eddie !!

It is the Turkish woman that I worked with in Canada that
made me think about beauty in Turkey. She was an simple
lady, but what a BEAUTIFUL spirit she possessed.

I never forgot her kindness....No relationship, mind you,
just kindness and inner beauty...

All I know is that when I am fortunate enough to travel to
such a beautiful place like Turkey, a place with so much history, I hope to run into more people like her.


Thank you... teşekkürler ....MarioninTurkey

I know this feeling well (read my very first post from 2005). Nothing has changed for me since then, except a few years older.
Its something that you can't put into words and its certainly nothing that anyone whom has never been here can ever understand.