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[ghost]

Who Will Stop This Terror?

[wyldfiregyrl]

My roomate was beaten and mugged leaving the Yeşil cafe in Bakirk�y on last tues. night at about 11 pm. After they took all his money and passport they continued to kick him while he was down. He ended up with stitches, concussion, and bruises and the like....
I never much liked him... but not that much.

Be careful everywhere!

[ghost]

Post script - the unfortunate Canidemir died from his injuries.

Of course - in a city of some 20 million people, your chances of encountering some bad apples are increased.

Most other cities in Turkish are pretty safe, and you can walk everywhere and feel safe.

[scot47]

GHOST ! I thought you had escaped from this awful world of TEFL !

[ghost]

More articles in the Turkish press about crime increase:

[dmb]

Ghost, stop trying to put people coming to Istanbul. These are isolated incidents. Crime is far more common in London or New York. Istanbul is still one of the safest cities in the world.

[Glasgow Rangers FC]

If you have ever seen Glasgow's Queen St. station at 3am then I'm sure you would think of Istanbul as the Garden of Eden. You get headcases everywhere. You just need to learn how to deal with them. My advice: if there's more than two of the wideos, run...

Eskisehir is a real safe place. I haven't had one bit of bother in over a year. I've been to Istanbul countless times and nobody has said a word. Just implement a wee bit of common sense, same as anywhere else. If you see a nutter with a kebab sword in the street, don't ask him for a light.

[ghost]

But.... G.R.F.C. - you told ghost and the South African springbok that you had been beaten up by a few guys near the train station in Eskisehir....do you still remember that incident?....(or maybe the alcohol you consumed then has had an effect of amnesia on your memory faculties...)

You are both right (G.R.F.C. and D.M.B.) - Istanbul and Turkey are safer than many of the places we are familiar with, however the point is - there has been an increase in crime during the past couple of years, in some parts of Istanbul - quite a significant increase. Some of the crime is drug related, and other crimes are also committed by Turks who have learned some bad habits in other countries.

No need for paranoia - but there is no room for complacency either, because the crime stats are up and continuing to rise, whichever way you look at it. Speak to some of the Turkish teachers and they will corroborate this. We are often lulled into a fall sense of security, until the day, we ourselves become the victims of a crime.

[dmb]

Do you think that a reason for the rise in Crime is related to the Ecevit Amnesty. (When he freed ,I don't know how many, loads of prisoners)

[ghost]

[Glasgow Rangers FC]

Ghost, the incident that you refer to was instigated entirely by yours truly. I was to blame. If I hadn't gone looking for trouble then I wouldn't have found it. Guaranteed. Glasgow has learned to calm the jets since then and has had no subsequent violent escapades. By the way, Can't thank you enough for introducing the kickbox school to me. Now that the winter months are here it's my main source of entertainment. Give me a bell the next time you're in town.

[ghost]

G.R.F.C.

So you still like Eski? ghost thought it was a pretty boring place, and the climate is pretty bad in winter, with those muddy streets.....

Is it true that you are the Director of Studies at the school we know about? This is rather ironic, because, you will have admitted yourself, you were never a committed scholar or pedagogue....you seem to have landed a position of great responsibility, and hope the students benefit from your unorthodox methodology. One must confess that one has never met a D.O.S. who subscribes to your unusual philosophy of pedagogy in general......

One supposes that there are compensations for you, and one assumes that a nice "Madame" at the school in question is still looking after you. In any case we wish you luck, and many more Tuborgs (but after class, rather than before....).

It would be interesting to get some insight into the present teacher composition of the school...i.e. how many foreign teachers are there now, what nationalities? Are the same Turkish English teachers there as last year?

Can you explain what happened to our South African Springbok friend, because it seems impossible to garner a straightforward answer on that one? Quite a shame he was not able to stay on, because from what one gathers, he was generally popular with the students, especially the female ones.

Greetings from Montreal, Canada.....

[Glasgow Rangers FC]

Ghost.

The S.A. boy we know left as a result of falling student numbers within his classes. In the end the students got sick of him. More importantly as far as I'm concerned, he vanished with the iron and heater from the apartment. Weird. As far as the school is concerned, there has been a huge shake up here. Almost all of the Turkish teachers have been replaced and I'm the only yabanci here, wich makes life boring sometimes. And no, I'm not the D.A. Nobody in their right mind would give me a position which I could openly abuse. Suits me as it means more drinking time. I am at a point now where I am seriously thinking of relocating to Bursa. Bigger city, more women and tekel shops etc. Speaking of which......

[ghost]

G.R.F.C.

Before you relocate, think hard about the advantages you will miss if you go somewhere else.

1. In Eski. you have a "sicak kadin" bayan looking after you and your welfare. You would not get this type of close attention anywhere else.

2. The owner of the school in Eski. tolerates your unorthodox philosophy of pedagogy and education. This would not be the case anywhere else.

From ghost's persective, if G.R.F.C. moves somewhere else, that might entail difficulties, because most schools run a much tighter ship, in comparison with the school you work at in Eski.

In any case, whatever your decision, we wish you luck, many Tuborgs (after class - not before), and keep us posted on what happens.

[Glasgow Rangers FC]

Ghost. The bayan you refer to is no longer working within the school, so thats not what's keeping me here. Unorthodox? Listen pal, I've had a steady stream of students coming here making inquires re. my classes. I bring customers here, plain and simple. All my classes are full and my students have no complaints. Perhaps you have a bee in your bonnet re. your termination of contract? I'm sick and tired of people telling me that the only reason I outlasted the rest of the clowns last year was somebody looking out for me. By the way, what a result against the catholic scumbags. Twice in ten days. Yee haa.