Guest  +  66143 Fri, 07 Jan 05 06:59 PM This forum is so good. do you know turkey and what do you think about us? i'm really curious about. Do you want come to turkey? Do you want see our mosques,our palace? What do you know Ottoman empire? I'm waiting your answers... See you later Guest

	Alanis  +  66409 Sat, 08 Jan 05 10:09 PM I do not know much about turkey, but I love traditional turkish music and dances 9 i used to learn them), and i love turkish food. Alanis Joined on Sat, Nov 20 2004 New Member 18

	leandro_tami  +  66795 Mon, 10 Jan 05 03:01 PM I would love traveling to Turkey! Mainly because of its history. Although I know very few about the Ottoman Empire, I'm more interested about the Roman era. If I'm not mistaken, Istambul was the capital of the Oriental Roman Empire... I just can't imagine how excited I would become if I could travel there. leandro_tami Joined on Mon, Nov 15 2004 Mar del Plata, Argentina Junior Member 68

	YoungCalifornian  +  73950 Mon, 14 Feb 05 09:58 PM I don't know a whole lot regarding Turkey or its people; however, my grandfather is the son of Armenian immigrants, and so there is a lot of resentment of the Turks within my family. My great-grandparents (the Armenian immigrants) both suffered greatly at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during their attempted genocide of the Armenians in the two or three decades leading up to World War I. My great-grandfather witnessed his parents and older sister being slaughtered by Turks in broad daylight when he was 6 years old. In fairness, the only reason he was spared was because a Turkish woman took pity on him and hid him under her skirt. He would eventually immigrate to the United States when he was in his early twenties. My great-grandmother was forced to become a mistress to a Turkish army officer in exchange for the lives of her and her family (although her father was not spared), before she too immigrated. The present resentment felt by members of my family (and many Armenians around the world), stems largely from the Turkish goverment's continued refusal to acknowledge their attempted genocide. There is a famous quote by Adolf Hitler in response to a question about how the world would view the Holocaust, his response was something along the lines of, "Who remembers the Armenians?" Personally, I bear no hatred for Turkey or the Turks, but am surrounded much of the time by people who do. Also, I am a "mutt" of sorts and do not characterize myself as an Armenian or even Armenian-American. As far as my heritage goes, I'm only a quarter Armenian, with the rest a combination of German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and English. YoungCalifornian Joined on Mon, Feb 14 2005 Los Angeles, California Regular Member 586 Famous Quotes

	aficionado  +  74458 Wed, 16 Feb 05 10:01 PM Hi, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000HF4O/103-9245929-4183004?v=glance I strongly recommend you to listen to Burhan Ocal's CD named Gypsy Rum for a good example of Turkish dance music. You can find it above address... Regards, aficionado Joined on Wed, Feb 16 2005 New Member 04 Regards

	Fenerbahçeli  +  89511 Wed, 13 Apr 05 08:49 AM Hi. Fenerbahçe is the biggest soccer team of Turkey, and I support it. So my nick name is "Fenerbahçeli" here. Fenerbahçeli