He was known as The Ugly King to the Turkish movie goers of the time. Did he not kill that judge and flee from the prison afterwards, I would respect him more. I do have this thing about people terminating the lives of others whatever the cause may be. I also detest those who did not see anything wrong in awarding a Palm d'Or to a fugitive murderer.

Whatever cause he had, he had to defend it in a civilized manner.

Don't you ever read Poe dear? Try The Cask of Amontillado

I wish I had such a cellar though.

You are right teaschip.

That's a point of view that won't ease the feelings of Besiktas fans who read the headlines of todays's British newspapers boasting of having stuffed (the) turkey.

Congratulations Liverpool. They surprized everyone including themselves. I can't find a word to describe the dismal performance of Besiktas. That was one of the gravest defeats in their history. I feel lucky that I don't support them but am sorry for my friends who do.

What is this dudu thing? I couldn't find out the where all this bitterness started.

Under the circumstances, I am thinking of asking the admin to open a flaming section where people could bash one another without ever worrying about being misunderstood. There are examples of this elsewhere. I remember back in the early 90's, at a time when we were spending a fortune on our dial up connections to local BBS's, we could completely solve this problem by arranging those flaming corners. Being hardly ever censored or noticed by anyone, aggressors could actually curse the other party and be responded to similarly. Because messages posted there would not count as real messages you would continue to communicate elsewhere in the forum normally. Violation of that simple rule however, would result in the suspension of your account which in some cases would have other graver consequences like being excommunicated from the BBS community as the service turned on the pocket money of the BBS owners who were the real Gods of the glorious BBS age.

Thanks but I don't consider them finished yet. Many of them are just 5-10 minute translations. When I have time, I will take another look at them.

The daily rent of a Chevrolet TAHOE 5.7 is €155 plus 18% VAT upto 6 days. a six day tour will cost 1097 Euros in total. Assuming that there will be 4 people in the vehicle the cost per head will be roughly 275 Euros.

Whether to sleep in tents or in hotels or boarding houses can be decided.

I didn't read your messages Gizli Yuz. I just wrote what I wrote there and that is my genuine opinion.

I criticized Catwoman in the past when I felt a need for criticism and praised her when I thought she was telling the truth. This is just one of such happy moments.

It is obviously not a good idea to be stuck with the past. Every day brings along a new chance to get somethings right. Let us not create enemies among ourselves.

The punchline is try to show a little sympathy to others if you want to be treated with sympathy.

We cannot create that sympathy by increasing the ethnic awareness.

You are right in general Catwoman but let me correct something. We shouldn't be talking about equal rights here. There is no ethnic discrimination in our laws (at least as far as I know). What we should be talking about is equal opportunities to Western and Eastern regions. The government carries out a number of projects and offers incentives to those wishing to invest in the Eastern provinces. Nevertheless, because of the unique geography of Turkey, East has always been more difficult to develop.


Anatolia is like a ladder. Whereas the altitude on the Western end is 0 it increases dramatically as you travel to east standing at altitudes of a couple of thousand meters on avarage in the farther parts of Anatolia. People live in small villages there with little communication, transportation and economic means. Many of them emigrate abroad and use the pretext we are being oppressed by the government.