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Otterman Ollie · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: History lesson

Today we got embroiled in a bit of contempoary history, don't ask how it came up, I think one of the students had been reading a Turkish copy of Mein Kampf or somefink like it. Anyroad the subject of the d.day landings came up and I noted that the 65th annivsarry (sorry can't spell that one) was due. Guess what? Those naughty French or their Presssidant more like (aren't short French guys a bit like Napoleaon? another word I got a problem with) said "non" to the British royal family, bloody sauce or what!
Apparently he has this idea that those blokes from the other side of the pond won the war. Buck house are more than miffed. Bugger eh!

studymylesson · Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Turkey

Apparently, the French have had a rethink (possibly due to Otterman Ollie's post) and an invitation has now been sent to the British Royals.
The history lesson I try to avoid here is the annual �anakkale commemoration - win the battle but lose the war....
Don't even get me started!

fishmb · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Istanbul

It's neat that you talk about contemporary history with your class!

When I was interning at DC there was a bill going around (and there probably still is in some form) trying to get the US to classify the Armenian massacre as a genocide. I bet that would be a pretty explosive topic eh? It always gets brought up on all the newspaper headlines every year.

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

Speaking of history... i was working at the same place ollie was when that was happening. essentially the turks said the base in Adana would close and somehow the americans decided ... well that maybe it wasn't a genocide after all... actually politicians should not be talking history and turks should drop that unbelievably boring topic... i brought it up in class and the walls started shaking...

another armenian anecdote... when the ENTIRE WORLD was extatic about Obama the Turks protested him when he was in Ankara giving a speach about "not being at war with muslims" because he made some really small comment about that 130 year old subject the year before.

so how's the holidays ollie? is it august or july?

p.s. turks don't care about ww2 because they weren't in it.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:48 am Post subject:

Hi Tvik, yeah its holiday time, just chilling out and trying to make the days left streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttcccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh out.
We only get a month now! Bugger!