Turkey

I'm not a religious person. He lived most of his life in the US and is a successful business man here, and we've been together for 2 1/2 years now. he never asked me this question before untill now and it feels like a requirement. Is he asking me to do this so I can be accepted by his family and friends? I will be going to Turkey in December to visit his family.
*no offense to anyone just wondering.

2007-10-30 13:29:48 · 48 answers · asked by sChNiTzEl 5

2007-10-30 10:16:52 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

1.Having nothing exciting left to do?
2.Losing ur friends?
3.Being dull?
4.Being unsuccessful?
5.Being out of touch with the world?
6.Someone holding u back in life?
7.Those u love hating u?
8.People thinking your un-original?
9.Your dreams being shattered?
10.People finding out ur secrets?

(And try to pick some out of these list not ur "own" list if u dont mind)

2007-10-30 08:09:25 · 25 answers · asked by . 6

Yes its me again....and Im still trying to secure flights from England to Konya but having REAL big trouble matching flights. Anyone out there got any ideas on cheap flights? PLEASE!!!!am stressed to buggary here!

2007-10-30 04:07:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-30 02:15:05 · 36 answers · asked by MORTİCİA 4

I've seen many times some saying "Turks are the best" and receiving noticeable support.I've got some questions:
1)Do you really think so?
2)Is there anything called "good" or "bad" nation?
3)If yes, have you compared Turks with ALL other nations of the world?
4)If yes, what aspects have you took for comparison?
5)How much time and effort have you spent for it?
6)So, can we have a list of nations sorted from best to worst and as a encourage of your work, we can give it to UN to sort the different flags in that order from top to down. (?)

Besides, 10 points + possible thumbs-up for the one can answer questions reasonably and move to the next...
Good Luck!

2007-10-30 00:37:42 · 31 answers · asked by ՎԱՀԷ 4

2007-10-29 11:10:40 · 11 answers · asked by . 6

That is to say " almost like a maniac" ...

Myself, I have an excessive habit of washing my hands everytime ...I don't know why, I always feel the need to wash my hands...

What about you ?

2007-10-29 08:32:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

TRICK-OR-TREAT?

2007-10-29 06:03:10 · 24 answers · asked by . 6

on the 31st it is Halloween - it is a traditional festival in the UK and is now very popular in America. Do you celebrate this or do you have something similar which you celebrate on a different day?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

2007-10-29 05:40:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am looking to frame a magazine that recently published an aritcle about our company. We actually made it on the front page so we would need a frame that shows the front cover and two open inside sections of a standard sized magazine.

Does anyone know of a store specalizing in frames in Izmit / Kocaeli?

2007-10-29 04:51:50 · 2 answers · asked by Matt 3

I'll give you a clue they are both Armenian Intellectuals with great achievments, very clever men indeed.

R v Demirian [1989] VR 97 at 123-124

Demirian (1988) 33 A Crim R 441

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terror2000_2001.htm

2007-10-29 03:59:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-28 23:41:59 · 32 answers · asked by hearsay 2

Hi Turkish people,

I see flags and celebrations everywhere. What's it all about? :)

Anybody have an idea?

Herkesin Cumhuriyet Bayramı kutlu olsun! :)

2007-10-28 22:50:58 · 16 answers · asked by Earthling 7

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/metin_yilmaz/october_2007/belgian_police_say_i_will_kill_you_all_turkish_m.htm

2007-10-28 21:56:09 · 6 answers · asked by Mehmet K 3

Should be any difference against terrorism.. I believe NOT...

We have a burning pain. We are losing our sons to terrorism every day and we want the state do something against terrorism in a manner that demonstrates the might of our state and the determination of our nation not to surrender to any threat. It hurts us to see our key ally the United States question our moves against terrorism in a blatantly hypocritical manner while it continues a global war against terrorism and receives our earnest contributions to its success. We are hurt as well to see that somehow the global war against terrorism is only confined to a perceived threat by the U.S. and when it comes to our own security, we receive nothing but advised restraint, dialogue and so on.

What about other countries ?

2007-10-28 21:52:44 · 7 answers · asked by Mehmet K 3

Britons are among foreigners attacking Turkish troops with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, a leading British paper reported yesterday.

The report in The Sunday Times also revealed that Russians, Germans, Greeks, Iranians and Arabs are helping the organization, listed as a terrorist organization by a large majority of the international community.
The Sunday Times article, sent from the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq, reports that several Europeans have joined forces with the PKK, citing PKK members. "At least three Britons were in the PKK's 3,000-strong force, boasted one fighter as he and a group of men huddled in a room discussing the latest clashes with the Turkish army. Others include Russians, Germans, Greeks, Iranians and Arabs," the article said.

2007-10-28 21:35:47 · 10 answers · asked by Mehmet K 3

The Anti Defamation League (ADL) has recently stated it supports the claim of an Armenian genocide occurrence. Does this come to anyone as a surprise? What else can we expect from a human rights group? The ADL is not a political group. The ADL is not Israel. It does not represent Israel (who has not taken a position). It does not represent the Jews. The ADL represents itself. That is all.

One would think that Israel or certainly some lone member of Knesset would support the claim on this sensitive issue of a possible genocide with an ally as close as Turkey is to Israel. Even more interesting is the time frame of this ‘ethnic cleansing’ that the Armenians claim. During the same time that they claim the Turks set out to annihilated their entire existence, the Ottoman Empire was in Palestine, in Jerusalem. For centuries the Armenian Quarter had existed in Jerusalem. Why not start there? One would think that the Turks occupying Palestine would wipe out that quarter. Even back then it would probably take them all but an hour to do so. However, not only did the Armenians in Jerusalem, survive, but they thrived. There were no skirmishes. In fact, the Turkish Ottomans gave the Armenians, just as they had given the Jews, the freedom to practice their own religion.


Must we Jews be reminded that on March 28, 1949, that Turkey became the first country with a Muslim majority to formally recognize the State of Israel? Not only this but they were among first nations to ratify Israel’s Statehood. When 150,000 Spanish Jews fled the inquisition, the crusades and the Black Death, They repopulated Constantinople’s declining population. These Sephardic Jews settled in Constantinople, but also in Thessaloniki which came to be known as "Mother of Israel" due to its large Jewish population.

Do we forget that Turkey also served as a transit for European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during the 1930s and 1940s? The Israeli foreign ministry has characterized its relations with Turkey as "perfect". With the dissolve of the Ottoman Empire, Israel has maintained a friendship for almost 90 years. These two countries train their armies together. If Israel had thought for a moment that their allies were capable of ethnic cleansing, then they would not have a long established friendship. If there were an ethnic cleansing, then the Armenian quarter that was long established for centuries would not have flourished during the Ottoman Empire.



We Jews know what ethnic cleansing is. Probably more so than many other ethnic groups do. What happened to the Armenians was a horrific massacre and loss of life. Was every massacre throughout history motivated by ethnic cleansing? Certainly not. What Hitler tried to accomplish is a far cry from any Armenian so-called genocide. You cannot deny that many Armenians lost their lives as they were looking for a land of their own, however, what is not recognized is that the Armenians themselves inflicted as much damage as others in the hostilities of that time for their own selfish objectives. The Turk's only policy was the removal of Armenians from the front line with Russia, where they were collaborating with the Ottoman Empire's enemies. They were a threat to security. This is called war.

Regarding persecution, the Ottomans had one of the most tolerant policies towards non-Turks of any empire of its day. The three communities of Jews, Greeks and Armenians were virtually autonomous within the empire. It cannot be denied that throughout history the Ottoman Empire unlike any other empire of its time allowed Jews to practice their own religion as well as many freedoms of their time. When the Ottoman Empire had taken over Jerusalem had they tried to annihilate the strong presence of the Armenians who had their own quarter? Never. Could you say that the Russians committed genocide against the Circassians and Adyghes? If you could then the Armenians slaughtered 200 000 people including Turks and Kurds and Jews in Eastern Anatolia during Turkey's Independence War while the Turks were fighting against the imperial powers of Europe in 5 fronts. Armenians took the advantage of Turks' weak position and waged a war against them by opening a new front. But, this was war.


As a Jewish, I have a huge respect for the Ottoman Empire as they gave us freedom of religion to not only Jews but to the Christians as well. My grandfather was born under the Ottoman Empire in Jerusalem. We return to our history books that once again show us that the Ottomans allowed freedom of religion unlike every other empire that existed. This set the precedence for a friendship between Israel and Turkey. Once more, one does not befriend its enemy. Could it be that the Armenians massacred were only the victims of war?

When the public is given the correct information, then we can make an intelligent choice. Our history books give us the proof as the Armenians had a complete alphabet at that time and kept good records as did the Ottomans. However in 2007 history ignored and replaced with slanting, propaganda and lies. The House's decision to rewrite history and rename the Armenian/Turkish conflict as genocide is ridiculous. Not even the United Nations or Israel has supported this as true. It was not racially motivated. There was no ethnic cleansing. If this held any truth then the Armenian quarter could have been wiped out in an hour but instead was respected by the Muslim Ottomans allowing the Armenian quarter to flourish and grow giving them freedom of religion.
In a recent article in the Jerusalem Post Armenians in Israel led a small protest and were upset that Israel had not taken an official position. One would think that Israel would be the first country to define Genocide with its own history. The problem is that Genocide is being used as a loose term. Israel, a people who have tasted the bitterness of ethnic cleansing would be the first to declare this as genocide. They have had nearly 90 years to do so. Instead, they have befriended Turkey as the two nations train their military together and have become close allies.
Here in the year 2007 nearly 100 years after the decline of the Ottoman Empire Armenians are still trying wake the dead in this controversy. This is alike to Black African Americans looking for reparations for slavery. And like this it falls upon deaf ears. Society has little tolerance for people with a chip on their shoulder.
It is not enough that this country had not learned from Vietnam and Iraq, but now the House wants to re-write history concerning the Armenian Turkish conflict. The problem is, the West is trying to judge history with respect to its own historical and cultural references. Racism is a Western concept, which didn't have a place in Turkish or Ottoman history and the West cannot understand anti-racist Ottomans. Annihilation is a Western concept and the West cannot understand the Ottomans which chose to let live instead of wipe out. Assimilation is a Western concept and the West cannot accept the fact that different ethnic groups could live together.
Mainstream Western understanding has given the word "culture" a specific meaning and does not understand culture beyond that. And it chooses to denigrate what it does not understand. The problem is, the last real empire that the West had was the Roman Empire. Later so-called "empires" were only colonial formations, not real empires, and depended on exploitation and repression. Like Ilber Ortayli said, the last Roman type empire was the Ottoman Empire.

You can't really expect the (declining) Western powers to understand and appreciate something that is really different from their understanding of politics. That's like Americans appreciating Martian culture and politics. However while the House voted, acknowledging the Armenian Genocide, it disregarded the Azerbaijan Genocide of 1905-1907 by the Armenians. War is war. This claim of genocide happened as much as the Jews crucified Jesus. When will the House stop robbing Peter to pay Paul? The ADL, and like organizations such as CAIR and the NAACP should go back to their support of illegal immigrants rights as they have been doing and leave history to the books.

2007-10-28 08:06:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-28 03:10:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I laugh a lot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR_R_TcGQx4

2007-10-27 16:26:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I realize that some Armenian users are abusing history and keep asking questions here to mislead people with no back-ground knowledge about Turkish history. I have seen too many stupid questions coming from some ignorant fanatics who don't seem to be bothered about the Armenians in Turkey. I, as a Turkish-Armenian feel embaressed about their attitude and would like to apologize in the name of many Armenians in Turkey. Would you accept that?

2007-10-27 11:50:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

If any of you know X-factor or American Idol, this video is so funny. I wonder who's mouth is on Simon Cowell though??? :D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmA0RPTFz2I

2007-10-27 11:45:08 · 4 answers · asked by Qu'est ce que tu penses? 6

2007-10-27 00:37:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

People are becoming aware that the politics of Bush is just.....
Don't know how to explain???
Look at this:
http://video.haberturk.com/Video.aspx?v_ID=32556&k_A=haberturk

2007-10-26 07:43:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live in the 1st floor ( that is to say level 2 of the building,on the street side ),and in the back side of my appartement there is a terrace which is linked to some other terraces and roofs or other buildings.
There are a few street cats who come and go, for years, and sometimes I used to give them, through my window, some food ( french cheese, meat,fish, etc...)
But for several weeks, they come more often, and one of the cat even had babies, and now they are 8 cats who don't even look for food elsewhere, they just come every morning and everynight to my window...
The problem is that I felt pity, as most of us do, and those cats grow up fast and become parents very fast, and I'm begining to worry about that...
It's not just a problem of money ( food for cats everyday is not free, as these animals don't eat bread ), it's also the fact that I feel guilty feeding cats while there are humans starving...But I feel guilty too when these cats are watching me in my eyes, begging help.

2007-10-26 05:24:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine is Rivington Pike

Here are some pictures:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattjsmith/

2007-10-26 01:54:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/turkey_usa_armenia_dc

2007-10-25 22:02:53 · 12 answers · asked by Mr. Bobo 3

example: song: goes for: name

before anyone asks, yes I am bored :P

2007-10-25 08:23:41 · 15 answers · asked by DejaVu 4

A Turkish cashier in the US scares away an armed robber. Check it out :)

http://www.youtube.com/swf/cps.swf?video_id=GhZRf4GIw0w&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/GhZRf4GIw0w/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIqg0e_sUhrRxdOE7PTBmd4&&rel=1&border=0

2007-10-25 06:59:19 · 20 answers · asked by Ipek K 7

you know it's right...

2007-10-25 06:37:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous