Does anyone know how to pop rice. Should I use a microwave oven? I invented this method and it is a bit ineffiecient as some of the rice get burnt in the process.

Fill the paper filter of a coffee machine with rice.
Fill up the coffee jug with water and proceed as if you are making a jugful of coffee.

Put the wet rice in a saucapan and roast for 5-10 minutes.


Is there a better way?

Wish Yusuf have a dream of thee one of these nights
abandon all his property, (and say) I need nothing but thee.


This poem has been composed many times, here is one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bkTqRGjBk0

Azade, I am 40 years old. I have traveled in East Turkey extensively. As a university student, I had Kurdish schoolmates later on colleagues. I have learned enough.

Azade, you should remember that you are as biased as some of the most biased voices here. Yours is a thoroughly a Kurdish perspective.

If any ethnic group dares to establish a nation of their own they must fight a war of independence. In the foundation of all nations there is blood and ours is not an exception.

We are not fools, we have known this cause long enough to realize that Kurds essentially hate Turks, they want their own country, they blame all the problems they suffer on Turks.

Let me try and give you another perspective, most of the problems including economic, social, terror related and cultural alike are indeed caused by our Kurdish citizens.

Here are my reasons:

* They have a feudal, oppressive and primitive culture. Do you think most Kurds grant any rights to their women? What happens when a neighbor sees a woman's hair looking out from a window. News is rushed to the family board and the woman is executed by the most eligible male member of the family.
The dimensions of the male chauvenism is indeed apalling in most Kurdish families. As a woman, if you are raped, you are murdered by your family on account that you have become dirty.

* Despite decades that have passed by Kurds are still living in a feudal order where aga is the owner of the tribe. Most members of the tribe do not even hold identity cards. They have to ask the permission of their aga for anything including marriages. There are lots of other practices in family life for example, having to pay the father of the bride a large sum in order to get married, when your husband dies you are supposed to marry the brother of your husband among many other primitive traditions.

* Most Kurdish families have never heard of population planning. Families with 10-15 children are not uncommon. So is polygamy.

* Kurds do not live where they are they are always in pursuit of better opportunities elsewhere. Millions of them live in Europe and Western Turkish provinces. There are a great deal of mafiaman deliberately using the nick Kurd to infuriate people. Because in everyone's mind a Kurd is someone capable of all sorts of evil and they use this.


True our government made a number of big mistakes and it has still been doing many more. Nevertheless, you should think twice before believing in a video clip featuring Kurdish people being tormented by people. Most of those videos are set up by PKK militants. Usually, a few people begin throwing stones at the police and there are some terrorists firing their arms. When the police intervenes the group of women began wailing and throwing themselves in the middle of the street. Normally, demonstrations are restricted by the governor of that city and this situation is declared to public before that day. The police does make a mistake by using their clubs mercilessly on people. That is unfortunately the standard stuff in most of Turkey. But when all these elements come together in a video clip, you have a striking show at hand.

They first called the EU, The European Common Market and then European Economic Union and finally the EU. The organization has been evolving in a continent comprising highly incompatible elements. The EU has already positioned itself against Turkey. It pushes Turkey to recognize Greek Cypriot Government as the sole representative of the island; for long years it openly supported PKK terrorism. A significant number of PKK terrorists took shelter in European countries where they generated money for financing their operations.

In other words, it will not be a great surprize for Turkey if the EU supports a free Kurdistan in the country. After all, everybody wants to see some results when they make such a long term investment.

P.S. I am not knowledgeable enough to comment on Kosova independence. I will read a bit and write a comment.

Daydreamer, in international politics there is a concept called reciprocity. Nations determine their policies in response to those developed by other nations. This is an iron-clad rule in international relations.

There are a number of alliances which are not officially declared but known to everyone, accordingly:

Russia, Greece, Serbia form a league of Slavic/Orthodox countries. They use their influence to create advantage to other Slavic or Orthodox members, may it be Eurovision song contest or international politics. To offset the effects of such naturally forming pacts countries like Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania form another entity which is supported by Turkey. The Balkans have always been a center for ethnic, religious turbulance. Do I support countries being divided into camps like this? No. However, this is unfortunately the case.

As you know there are current/historical tensions between:

Macedonia - Greece
Albenia - Greece
Turkey - Greece
Turkey- Bulgaria
Turkey - Serbia
Serbia-Croatia
Serbia-Bosnia
Bosnia-Croatia
Bulgaria-Macedonia

It works like this: For example, If you are a Greek, you do your best to undermine Macedonia. You don't need a good reason for that. If something is bad for Macedonia it is good for you. Similarly, Turkey considers Bosnia as a natural extension of its culture and heritage in Europe and the country feels Bosnia is left alone in the middle of hostile powers. Hence it strives to protect Bosnian interests. During the war, people collected contributions everywhere in Istanbul to be sent to Bosnia. This is something that naturally happens. It is very much like the natural rapport between the Brits and the US people. The UK government openly declared on many occasions that they consider the US a natural ally on historical and cultural grounds and that they will always act together.

By virtue of such unwritten pacts between countries, The UK could capture Falkland islands from Argentina. Did the Argentine people have a strong Patogonian league that would defend their interests at all costs, this would not have been possible.

We don't need a source for this. Turkey is a country which has been in existence and recognized as a sovereign nation for a long time. The name of this country is Turkey, its cizitens are called Turks. There are Turks who are ethnically Kurdish, Circassian, Georgian, Greek, Albanian, Lazian, Arabic, Urdu, Polish, Abhazian, Assyrian and you name it. All these people are still Turkish citizens or Turks by nationality and whatever they are ethnically. Turkey is a unitarian country, it is not a federation. There are no multiple nationalities within this country.

None of the ethnic groups claim they are subjected to torture, it is only Kurds who claim so. In the streets they sing praises for Apo the jailed PKK leader by doing so they endorse the acts of the PKK. When they indicate their opinions in platforms like this, they say all they are asking for is improvements but in the streets the discourse changes. As Azade pointed out they chant Biji Kurdistan, biji Apo. Turkish government is responsible to its people. It cannot give away an inch of land to anyone. All the land we have is our common property. You are free to live on it, use it, buy it or do whatever you want with it but you are not free to launch a free Kurdistan on Turkey's soil.

The only way for Kurds to do that is by fighting just like we did when we acquired this land almost one thousand years ago. At that time there was still no Kurdistan here, there was the Byzantine Empire. As a matter of fact, a free Kurdistan has never existed in history. Now, the US is setting up a country for them as part of their A Better Middle East project. This project was realized by a complete disregard of the rights of Arabic and Turkoman populations in Northern Iraq. These people are crying for the land once rightfully belonged to them. The oil goes to the US and the land to the Kurds.

Quoting KeithL:


Quoting KeithL:

Let me ask a simple question to both of you. Do you think Turkey should give up any of its land for an independent Kurdistan?




Isn't it interesting that these two "free-thinkers" are not brave enough to answer this question!!!



haha
you never ever understood turkish politics and no knowledge at all about our history and culture..
You are embarresing as a mod to Turks here..


Which Turks Thehandsom?
P.S. I forgot to quote as usual.

Come on Catwoman, you rely too much on Wikipedia. There aer international norms governing such matters. The word Turk denotes exactly what the word American does.

I lived in Diyarbakir three months. I know certain things.