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lovetowander · Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 78 Location: Australia temp..

HI
I was reading in the news that the turkish army has mobilised 20 tanks to the iraq border and maybe planning to invade iraq.
I'm coming over there soon with my daughter and was wondering what the general feeling is on the ground. I know it can often sound worse in the news, just like here in Bangkok. Any thoughts on the subject appreciated

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

aside from the occasional terrorist bombing and the manical driving habits turkey is quite safe.

it needs to remembered that what we call "news" is usually a recounting of the most fantastic happenings around the world. the crime rate in Los Angeles and the 100's of murders every day in Brazil don't get the same international coverage as a bomb in a muslim country. what the exact reason is i'm not too sure. even though places in africa and the philipenes would make for really good horror stories, for some reason people tend to focus on the handful that get blown up by suicide bombers. My only guess is that "the war on terror", meaning the clash between the christian and muslim worlds, suits the needs of the western governments and is more entertaining than say east-timor or the last few headhunters and cannibals in papua new guini

turkey is much safer than most large western cities.... bombs and all

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

watch out for the trannies in istanbul though, they might make you think twice about where you're gonna spend that little bit of extra cash

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:46 am Post subject:

Yes I would second that ,never been blown up yet or mugged or murdered even ,bloody boring place ,only excitement I get is creating a ruckus on this here forum .

tvik · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 371 Location: here

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lovetowander · Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 78 Location: Australia temp..

Thanks for the info and I agree with you regarding the news.
I was just saying to a friend today about all the coverage there is about the little english girl getting abducted, which is extemely sad and horrific for anyone, dont get me wrong. But how many children go missing in other countries, without so much as a weeny story written. It does your head in to think too hard about how many atrocities are going on in the world at this very moment, without so much as a mention in the news.
I watched a movie the other day called Border town, about the amount of women who go missing or are murdered on the mexican border, that work in the sweat shops and factories. The story was about how this reporter could not get her story published, as too many large corporations didn't want it printed. Shocking story and a typical example of how the greedy, get their way.
And your right about it all being safer than some western countries, I feel safer he
re in Bangkok, than in Australia.
Thanks for the info
Cheers
Oh and Im female, so no trannie worries lol. I know enough of them here anyway haha

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:59 am Post subject:

ollie farts back !

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Don't believe the hype(great tune btw) Even so called respectable news channels tend to make news rather than report it. They do have ratings after all.
I am a self confessed news junkie but I still take news with a pinch of salt. My reason for this is because when Gulf war 2 broke out I was living in Doha along with a lot of the western press and Camp snoopy. Anyway I had been in the Marriot hotel having a few beers with some foreign journalists and one of them had to leave.I forget his name. He was working for skytv. About half an hour later he was doing a live broadcast saying things like 'the people on the street are panicking" etc. Rubbish. I'm here. no one gives a toss. Bagdad is 100s of km away. Ever since then when I watch the news I am a bit dubious.

tararu · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 494

I was chatting to my mum on the phone a few years back, and she mentioned that she had seen on the news back in Oz that there had been a bomb attack at a wedding in Ankara. In actual fact, some drunken tool had driven himself into a petrol bowser at a petrol station, incinerated himself and a few people at a wedding salon next to the the petrol station. The same thing happened in Australia about ten years ago (minus the wedding salon), but news agencies around the world certainly didn't report it as a terrorist attack.

The thing that annoys me is that the mistake was never corrected. No newspaper or tv station stood up and said oh we're sorry. The explosion in Turkey was just an accident.