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"She's White and his dad is Turkish, mom Bangladeshi. But he has visibly brown skin and looks more like his mom."
"I asked my host about it and he said he'd only seen people sleeping rough a handful of times ever (barring the months following the earthquake last year). I asked if the government provide housing and he just laughed. He said that the first question people would ask if they saw someone sleeping roug"
"I will begin: Turkey. I'm adopted, so I don't have a dog in this fight per se, but my family is Armenian so it seems like a natural origin for my bias. Their treatment of the Kurds and Syrians pisses me off. Hate their shady dealings with Azerbaijan right now too."
"He's paying a grand to get a tattoo lazered off his arm because he went to Turkey and got Attaturk's signature tattooed and then realized oh wait this is the name of a genocidal maniac in a language I do not speak."
"There's an obese man called Yasin Genghis who just shakes his belly to a skibidi-bop song and probably creates the most viral content in Turkey and the Gulf States"
"We often talked politics but she rarely gave a shit about American politics and was more focused on the Kurdish struggle in Turkey and Syria."
"This is fucking insane. Like this shit is going on in brazil, spain, italy, turkey, etc All this fucking jaw surgery and face lifts."
"I had been plotting on the nosejob for years. After working shit jobs for a couple of years and selling things, I had enough saved to take the plunge.... Back then, for no reason, I had no sense of fear. I pretty much told my parents I was going to do it regardless of what they said."
"The most openly, and brazenly racist people I've met have been Somali, Tunisian , Turkish and Colombian."
"If you're in the Eastern Med, bound for Cyprus or Turkey, your plane is getting spoofed. It's just how it is."
"One summer in college I had a roommate who was an international student from Turkey. His name was Ismail, and these are some events that occurred... One night I got blackout drunk and he explained Turkish politics to me for the whole night. We watched so many fucking youtube videos about this but it"
"It's tragic that Charlie died but there is chaos in France, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Bangladesh, Georgia, the Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia, Argentina…"
"In Germany, German-born Turks are often far more religious and nationalist than their Turkish born parents."
"Who remembers the girl who had the blasphemy lawsuit bc of a tweet in T*rkey? Well that is I. (Also the Russian mail bride girl) I deleted my old account bc I kinda got ~paranoid they could find the posts. Good news is that I won the case!"
"At the border between Bulgaria and Turkey -- a massive no-mans-land parking lot -- one of the girls had a violent seizure"
"I could tell you tons about Serbia, Greece and Turkey but I don't know the first thing about Bulgaria."
"Turkey will, unfortunately, become a major world power and probably annex a few countries"
"In Turkey, the average age is 33, and whilst the economy is struggling there, it really did feel more a more youthful and vibrant country, like there was more energy about the whole place."
"I'm not too well versed in Turkish politics but it seems like all rightwing nationalist islamists movements in Turkey trace their origins to NATO stay behind groups. They organized a pogrom against Istanbul's Greek community which led to the flight of the majority of the population, annually slaught"
"It's also why a country like Turkey will never be part of Europe in a political sense, no matter how "secular" they become, they will be seen as post-Muslim."
"When I was in Georgia I went to an orthodox church and saw people in tears as they kissed the cross. In Turkey I saw pilgrims in tears at the house of the Virgin Mary. I saw a Sufi Prayer cricle that was hypnotizing."
"Phrygian Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, Turkey. The so-called Midas Monument owes its name to the fact that the word Mida is used in an inscription on the upper left-hand side of the façade, which is almost eighteen meters high."
"A bunch of supremacist colonizers who oppressed the native balkan people with their invasions and slave trade shaking my smh."
"Same with Turkey bordering Bulgaria, Iran with Armenia, Russia with North Korea, Italy with Slovenia"
"I have always felt weird about the Turkish."
"In Turkey, the average age is 33, and whilst the economy is struggling there, it really did feel more a more youthful and vibrant country"
"flying to turkey for norwood on demand"
"Why, they've only just quit over in Turkey"
"In Turkey I saw pilgrims in tears at the house of the Virgin Mary. I saw a Sufi Prayer cricle that was hypnotizing."