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[eclectic]

IN a strange and potentially horrifying development this week, which also illustrates succinctly just what I meant in my New Topic of a a few weeeks ago titled "Anything Can Happen", the Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan has made a public statement to Turkish media as well as to the BBC, that Turkey will "deport immediately all 100,000 Armenians living and working in Turkey", which is clearly in retaliation for the US COngress voting to pass the Armenian Genocide Bill.

THis is precisely the kind of "anything can happen" I was referring to, yet I was only responded to with disbelief and insults. It could be any kind of sudden, unexpected social upheaval/development or geopolitically-motivated thing, like this thing here.

To make it more relevant to my own personal situation, I am an Armenian-American whose ancestors fled Sivas and Bursa in 1909 and 1915 respectively.

It is an horrific thing for Erdogan to treat this utterly sensitive topic with such statements about deporting immediately all 100,000 Armenians from Turkey. What do Armenians in Turkey have to do with the US COngress moving nearer to passing the Armenian Genocide Bill?

As teachers of EFL, we all have to keep on the lookout for any kind of potential dangers, and this is a perfectly-timed example. We are alll or mostly all living as mere guests in our host countries, living from year to year or even tourist visa to tourist visa, without many legal rights for the most part.

We should stick together in some type of support group internationally, by country or region, in case of this kind or even worse developments. IN these times, neo-survivalism is a growing necessity.

[kazazt]

If you read what he really said he did not say immediately and it was just posturing. The illegals have been there for years and are going nowhere. Who would want to be in your tefler group and if you are on a tourist visa then you have no right to work. People on tourist visas and working for years are stupid or desperate or both.

[billy orr]

You are lying. Erdoğan did not say: Turkey will "deport immediately all 100,000 Armenians living and working in Turkey in retaliation for the US COngress voting to pass the Armenian Genocide Bill".

[eclectic]

[fishmb]

I think your post was pretty misleading. First of all your quote was not a direct quote, just sensational paraphrasing, but you still used quotation marks. You made it sound like every Armenian in Turkey (citizen or no) was going to be forcibly removed.

Erdogans comments were stupid, but he already tried to awkwardly back-peddle. It seems like some Turkish politicians have condemned the remarks too. It seems very unlikely anything is going to happen. It goes on to say that he is only speaking about illegal immigrants - he puts the number at 100,000 but other sources but the number as less than 60,000.

Of course his comments are unconscionable, but it's not like illegal immigrants have right in countries where they illegally reside.

[eclectic]

[TeachEnglish]

lesson to be learned here.. be careful what you post because these people will pick it apart as they look for any reason to make trouble or stir up crap. Whether it is an idiot calling someone a liar, when maybe saying the post was exaggerated would have been better, or another knucklehead that wants to insult people by saying they are stupid. Just learn from this situation because many people reading and commenting are just negative miserable troublemakers.

Back to the original post. Don't worry about the prime minister, he is just angry and using a scare tactic. If people are here illegally, and he knows about them, then why are they still here?

[PC Parrot]

[eclectic]

[Mr. Kalgukshi]

Locked due to insults & O/T postings. Some members on the Turkey forum are incredibly close to being permanently banned along with their iSPs.