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betacygnus
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cartago
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| The headline says honor killings account for half of Turkey's murders but further down they amend that and say it's 200 out of 4,400 murders a year. This was in Kahta in Adıyaman. There's a big difference between the villages and the cities. |
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cartago
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| The other thing in Malatya, all I can say is that in my experience Turks are normally tolerant of Christians as long as they're not seen to be proselytizing. |
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PC Parrot
Joined: 11 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| The other thing in Malatya, all I can say is that in my experience Turks are normally tolerant of Christians as long as they're not seen to be proselytizing. |
And as long as they're not one of the few remaining resident Christians who descended from those that inhabited the land long before the Turks turned up.
According to Dalrymple, the dispossession of the Christians is unique in that it represents a subject over which the Kurds and Turks of Eastern Turkey can actually agree. |
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cartago
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Don't know when the last time he wandered through Turkey was or what exactly he's referring to, the Genocide or more recent things.
If the subject is how much this affects expats in Turkey, it doesn't much unless they're trying to convert people. |
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Özcan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| The headline says honor killings account for half of Turkey's murders but further down they amend that and say it's 200 out of 4,400 murders a year. This was in Kahta in Adıyaman. There's a big difference between the villages and the cities. |
Don't worry, there are much more rape and murder cases in the West and especially the U.S. than in Turkey. Turkey doesn't even come close. |
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PC Parrot
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Where is the emoticon for grroooaaaannnnn ? |
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cartago
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I'm not sure about murder but that may be true. With rape I don't believe it. For one thing rape is more difficult to define sometimes and may be under-reported. When we see that Sweden is near the top for number of reported rapes and some Middle Eastern countries near the bottom this doesn't mean that Sweden actually has a lot more rape.
This is anecdotal I admit but one of my Turkish friends told me that rape is often not taken seriously by police in Turkey. |
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delal
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Especially as there's a prevailing attitude of "it's the girl's/woman's fault anyway". |
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