TSR Turkish Society

hello
im turkish
well half
but hello

Australian aborigines eat budgies. It's not part of the Turkish culture to

They've both been lying to me

Where were you, to help me out?

a full time geek.

You have budgie?
I think the only meat i have is chicken.

Ohh, so it does come naturally? Maybe they found that we have a biological trait that helps us to know how to cook.

A ballerina show....
It's strictly girls only i'm a afraid.
Last time a boy wanting to join, but they didn't let him
I felt sorry for the poor guy.

Hi, i've always seen you around and i have always thought you were scottish and full white.

From your picture you don't seem half turkish

Hi, i've always seen you around and i have always thought you were scottish and full white.

From your picture you don't seem half turkish

Many Turks are white. You've already said that you've never been to Turkey and you've made it even more obvious with this rather bizzare sentence.

I'm going to suppose that you're from London and that you've never been outside of it. The vast majority of Turks who've migrated to this country come from poverty stricken backgrounds and are, more often than not, completely uneducated. In the same way that the majority of these poverty stricken people are Blacks from Brazil, or Gypsies from Romania, they are Kurds from Turkey. Kurdish people, having been settled on the land for a long time have a more distinct appearance than the nomadic Turks. They're often quite dark in complexion and have dark hair. As I have already described, most Turks who've migrated to this country are of Kurdish background and are thus responsible for the image in your head of Turkish people being rather dark skinned and hairy, when the reality is that we're far more diverse than that.



How can a person 'seem' Turkish?

Here are some artist impressions of what our ancestors looked like:

6th the 8th centuries



11th to 12th centuries



14th century and beyond



You'll notice that there's a dramatic change in appearance from the Ottoman Empire. This is because of their 'millet' policy whereby if you were Muslim you were an Ottoman regardless of race or ethnicity. In fact, the Ottomans never called themselves 'Turks', they called themselves 'Ottoman'. The settled Turks also interbred with the Anatolian population to create the mixture we have now. When Ataturk came into power, a lot of ethnic exchange also took place. The Ottoman Empire had collapsed so in order to bring the people back to the 'homeland' from lost territories a policy took place whereby (if we take Greece as an example) the Muslim population migrated to Turkey and the Christian population migrated to Greece. As a result of this ethnic migration a lot of ethnic Turks migrated elsewhere and a lot of Greek and other ethnic converts to Islam migrated to Turkey. In the aftermath of it all the people became 'Turkish' as we know it today were the Muslim people of the Ottoman Empire regardless of whether their ancestors were Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Circassian or whatever.

I had three budgies once.. But they all died..

Wha? You dont eat lamb or beef?

Yes

so umm how are you thinking of paying me for me teaching you turkish and cooking

hahahha why scottish?
and i know im pasty compared to my family (except my dad)
when i go on holiday people approach my boyfriend (english) and talk to him in turkish and approach me and talk to me in english lol
i guess i inherited dads genes lol

Many Turks are white. You've already said that you've never been to Turkey and you've made it even more obvious with this rather bizzare sentence.

I'm going to suppose that you're from London and that you've never been outside of it. The vast majority of Turks who've migrated to this country come from poverty stricken backgrounds and are, more often than not, completely uneducated. In the same way that the majority of these poverty stricken people are Blacks from Brazil, or Gypsies from Romania, they are Kurds from Turkey. Kurdish people, having been settled on the land for a long time have a more distinct appearance than the nomadic Turks. They're often quite dark in complexion and have dark hair. As I have already described, most Turks who've migrated to this country are of Kurdish background and are thus responsible for the image in your head of Turkish people being rather dark skinned and hairy, when the reality is that we're far more diverse than that.

tbf to them even my mother says i dont look turkish
however by non - white i took her to mean olive skinned which id say is fairly accurate (my family comes from the west asian side/black sea)

i only knew that our ancestors are actually mongolian and descendants of genghis kahn (from what ive been told...)

Go away you lied to me
We don't eat budgies




I think scottish because probably the colour of your hair, or ones there was this girl that looked exactly like you on TV.



I am
How did you know?

Turks are hairy? Why do people think that, i'm not hairy

Also, apologies as i found difficulties trying to read your clogged up paragraph.

If we take a look at the map of Turkey,



We can see that the Black Sea coastline is the largest, larger than the Mediterannean and Aegean coastlines. People from the Black Sea region have a culture which is unique to the rest of Turkey. This is because their background is generally of Pontic and Laz descent. It's worth bearing note that the Pontic people are a Greek people and there are certainly whites among them.

Typical Laz person:



Woman of Pontic descent:



They also have an accent which is rather unusual, almost akin to the Scouse accent of England. For example, they will pronounce 'geliyorum' as 'celiyorum' and tend to replace the 'g' with 'c' quite a lot.



Well, our ancestors were related to the Mongolians, but they weren't actually Mongolian. If we look at this from a Linguistic perspective, it might help describe our relationship.

The Turkish language, is of the Turkic language group. In that group you have Turkmen, Azeri, Kazakh and many others, all of whom have Turkish ancestory. Now the Turkic languages are part of the Altaic language group. The Altay mountains, from which the name 'Altaic' comes from, is the ancesteral homeland of the Turks. Mongolian also falls under the Altaic branch.

So if you were to imagine this as a pyramid, you'd have one block on the top called 'Altaic' and two blocks under it called 'Turkic' and 'Mongolic'. Under the 'Turkic' block then you'd have all the different blocks, namely 'Turkish', 'Azeri', etc.

my hair is brown...? like at least half of the population of the uk...??
and yes turks are in general hairy. or at least appear so (dark hair + paler skin looks hairy)
we in general have thicker hair on our heads at least and men have a general tendency to have hair pretty much everywhere lol

LOL, yes i know, but it wasn't just the hair, the hair reinforced it..it looks chestnut.
They're hairy? lol, thats the first i've heard of it.
Hairy beasts!
Yes i have thick hair on my head...but thats about it.


By the way, you are i the same position as me, i do not know much about Turkish people either...and i'm sounding very dumb
I even believed when someone told me that they eat budgies

i still dont get how i look scottish...
in fact what does a scottish person look like...?

does anyone even eat budgies lol?

im pretty clued up on most aspects of the culture..
just not the history

im assuming its your granparents that are turkish...

I don't know either now

.... Well they both said it, so then i assumed...it was true, because in russia they eat dogs!

Yes my grandparents are only turkish, but still i want to know more.
So when you date, do you usually date turkish men?

I like turkish men

I like half turkish girls

You should hook up with this guy here.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=229069
thats how he looks like.

umm... nice paraphrasing....