Quoting azade:

Ya rab!
I understand where you are coming from MrX67. Your efforts are applauded from this side and it is indeed sad to see that everything has to be turned into a combat on political views nowadays. Sigh.

Quoting leander:

Quoting MrX67:

and i think you don't aware of you giving so big harm to people with this worries and selfish democracy opinions,Opposite as your saids you just want democracy for only urself,and you say democracy is exist just how you understood.

Quoting leander:

Really? Where were you when AKP propagandists spam the board with zillions of anti-state, anti secular articles and irrelevant AKP eulogies on Turkey section back to back, taken from the same islamist source?

Quoting leander:

1-Only a small percentage of turkish people live in rural areas.
Vast majority of Turks live in cities.Only Istanbuls population reached 25 million which is more than 1/3 of Turkey...add other cities to that in which tens of millions of people live...So how come some people claim only people who live in rural areas,farmers are the only representatives of turkish "culture"?
2-The purpose of this video may be open to interpretation but the reason for posting such a video here is clear,especially since this place have been invaded by islamist AKP propagandists who post anti-secular, anti state, pro headscarf islamist articles three times a day.They probably want to say with this: "Look this is the turkish culture! Wearing headscarfs! Türban is just a modernised version of it." Which is actually the oposite of the message of the video.'Cus it says in turkish that those political islamist "türban" wearing models have nothing in common with those hardworking humble rural women.Also they wear headscarf not for islamist reasons,- if you look closer you can see some oftheir hair- , but for tradition and protection from the sun 'cause they work in the farm all day long.

3-I think people who have a critical aproach and question the women rights in rural Turkey here have much more love and respect for those women than the ones who say they are "proud " of their condition and cloths and the way they live, cus it represents the "culture" they approve and want to preserve as islamists, who want to see women covered from head to toe, their role limited to geting married to the one their parents want them to, raising children and doing whats told by their husband, whom many of them didn't even had the chance to choose by themselves.
No need to attack catwoman and others just because they don't faint with delight and admiration to the "culture" when they see a 65 year old women wearing old ragged cloths and carrying heavy loads in her back while probably their men are playing cards in the "kahvehane".
I admire village people, they are wonderful in many ways, but the role of women is not one of those admirable qualities.

It's funny how some islamists who constantly talk about human rights and democracy when it comes to being allowed wearing headscarves in universities, get mad and accuse others of disrespecting the "culture" when people point out to severe woman rights violations in rural areas or islamist circles.

Quoting libralady:

It is very sad that a few harmless photos on YouTube can provoke such unreasonable behaviour. Opinions will differ but does that mean everyone is wrong?

Is it not about time this thread was locked??

Quoting femme_fatal:

mrx,
thats it, when islamists and others attacked catwoman, you seemed enjoying it and didnt ask to close the thread? when they spoke things that may fit your mentality it was ok.
now when some clever turks spoke up, and you want it to be closed? strange, you think so?

now im pretty sure you posted the video with some purpose, always acting as innocent as angel. i dont trust you.

i ask admins not to close the thread.