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Liz
Joined: 22 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:33 am Post subject: Hard Times in Turkey |
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Not a good time to come to Turkey. There is a growing air of contempt toward foreigners here as the crisis drags on. A number of racially motivated attacks, at least one of them fatal, have occurred lately.
I work at EF (EFinst, no longer under the old English First brand, as they undoubtedly failed to comply with the criteria). It used to be a good school but not any more. Bit sad really. But things have gone downhill rapidly since the crisis kicked in.
Locally owned English schools are squeezing their employees. More hours, less money, less respect, lots of people getting laid off. Foreign employees mean little to Turkish business people when push comes to shove. |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| I...I don't even know how to respond to this. Thanks for the heads up on...Turkey? |
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roknroll
Joined: 29 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:17 am Post subject: |
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whose talking turkey?
go cold turkey on turkey? |
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turkishlover25
Joined: 15 Mar 2009
Location: Illinois; USA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks OP. I lived in Istanbul and Ankara for 2 years, taught and English Time in Istanbul, Kent English and Wall Street in Ankara. Overall I would have to say those were the most incredible years of my life, but I lived there from 2005-2007. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles--hopefully things pick up soon. |
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asmith
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| It's going to get bad here, too. This is a global crisis. |
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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| asmith wrote: |
| It's going to get bad here, too. This is a global crisis. |
Ok asmith, you went from posting the most random questions you could think of to basically predicting Armageddon in every post. Do you just need attention? Don't you have a wife and kids? |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I never really liked turkey.. maybe it was the was my grandmother over-cooked it at christmas..... but i always found it too dry for my liking. Much prefer chicken. |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| The evil penguin wrote: |
| I never really liked turkey.. maybe it was the was my grandmother over-cooked it at christmas..... but i always found it too dry for my liking. Much prefer chicken. |
Enter Gwangjuchicken with one of his tired old "I'm a chicken" schticks. |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| roadwork wrote: |
| The evil penguin wrote: |
| I never really liked turkey.. maybe it was the was my grandmother over-cooked it at christmas..... but i always found it too dry for my liking. Much prefer chicken. |
Enter Gwangjuchicken with one of his tired old "I'm a chicken" schticks. |
Hey Chicken!!!! somebody doesn't believe you really are a chicken!! Jeez, dave will let anybody into the forum these days..
Guess who's not invited to the non-human thread................... |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| What crisis is the OP referring to? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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From this book:
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I live in Istanbul, and I am regularly asked by concerned Americans whether secularism in Turkey is under threat. Do I fear, they ask, that the Turkish government has fallen under the control of Islamic crypto-fundamentalists. So far, I am not excessively alarmed. In fact, the only political violence here has nothing to do with Islam. On May Day 2008, just as I was finishing this book, the Turkish security forces used tear gas and water cannons to prevent crowds of trade unionists, communists and anarchists from marching to Istanbul's Taksim Square. Turkey's three main trade union confederations, which bitterly oppose the government's efforts to implement free market reforms, claimed to have mobilized half a million marchers. The demonstrators showed up with gas masks and Molotov cocktails, throwing rocks at the police. The police beat them indiscriminately. They fired gas bombs into the crowd and shot water canons into the trade union headquarters. Hundreds were arrested, dozens were injured. I was proofreading the chapter of this book titled 'I hate Communists' when the police chased some 500 wet, coughing communists right down the street in front of me.
This conflict, even more than the divide between religion and secularism, will be the faultline of the coming century. It has been the faultline of political life since the French Revolution.
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jahson4
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
Location: Jamsil
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| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, hard times in Turkey ... WTF?! |
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Princess Soraya
Joined: 30 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Asams said:
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| Ok asmith, you went from posting the most random questions you could think of to basically predicting Armageddon in every post. Do you just need attention? Don't you have a wife and kids? |
I think asmith is female so having a wife would be illegal here  |
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Clockout
Joined: 23 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| asmith is definitely a guy |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| asmith certainly has something that everyone has and it usually stinks. |
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