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The modern capital may be planned, but Ankara (as far as I know) is the Turkish name for Ankyra, the name of the original ancient city, in medieval times also known as Angora.
I'm curious as to which battle you're referring to. (I've studied history, though not Turkish history specifically.)
caketastydelish
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I heard somewhere that converting from Islam to Christanity is illegal in Turkey and you can go to jail for it. Is this true?
Battle of the Sakkaria River, which isn't technically Ankara. Also, the importance of it for the 'survival of the Turkish nation' is vastly overrated; it was more of a struggle to see which group, Turks or Greeks, would get genocided along the Aegean coastline of Anatolia. Had the Greeks won, there was no way in hell that they were going to be able to grab more than northwestern and Aegean littoral regions of Anatolia.
Thanks. (Though I was actually curious as to a Turkish response.) I found it occurred in 1923; I thought it might have been an earlier battle I hadn't heard of.
According to the sharia, or islamic religious law, it is a mortal sin. Turkey is a secular country - unlike Saudi Arabia or Iran - so the answer should be no.
According to the sharia, or islamic religious law, it is a mortal sin. Turkey is a secular country - unlike Saudi Arabia or Iran - so the answer should be no.
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Hadesspirit
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Our country is very big.
And Greece is too small if to make a comparison.It makes me feel proud of my country.But im worried about the last events in our country.Im worried about my countries future.I pray God.I hope Turkey's end will not be similar to Ottoman's or other Turkish countries.
No its completely wrong.Christianity is a right for people in our country.Turkey is a secular country for now (although our government tries to build a nonsecular regime.)
If to ask my idea about it,every person has a right to choose his own belief.Noone has the right to interfere it.Its something between humans and God.
the one with apple aroma or chocolate aroma.oh you know some Turkish words arkadaşım.
There are some mistakes that German government has been doing.Especially some over-nationalist(Nationalism is too weak to call the events done to Turkish people)people gives harm Turkish people both morally and physically.German people must know that Turkish people and German people are friends for centuries.We supported your economy,your industry by our human power.
German government must have precaution to prevent our people being harmed.Thats all
Bigfoot3814
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What's a good Turkish meal like?
Hadesspirit
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There are a lot of good Turkish meals.Dolma,Hünkar beğendi.I suppose you've heard about döner and kebap.There are a lot of kebap kinds.İskender kebap,tas kebabı etc...
They all taste good and you will forget their taste.Majority do believe we are gonna enter one way or another (probably by being second in the group stage), the rest think that we will not qualify thanks to stupid moves by Terim.
Turkish people generally look at the map and see how much bigger Russia is than
Turkey. and feel sad thinking how big we were once. but then cheer up suddenly
by looking at the Italy since our peninsula is much bigger.
Hadesspirit
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But we should know that the only person who can get our national team through World Cup is,FATIH TERIM.Whatever he does,he is the emperor of our country.
plarq
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Turkish people generally look at the map and see how much bigger Russia is than
Turkey. and feel sad thinking how big we were once. but then cheer up suddenly
by looking at the Italy since our peninsula is much bigger.
Well, once you were bigger than Russia
BTW, a question, how do you view Russia?
Well, after late 90s many russians came to Turkey first to trade and now for tourism. Since then many people interacted with them and we seem to love em.
They quickly become the second largest group of tourists after germans and we appriciate that a lot.
Turkish men's weaknesses for blondes also resulted in many marriages which are especially common in the region Turkish Riviera (Antalya, Alanya, Bodrum etc..)
They in return sell us gas at the highest price and made quiet a lot of money and there exist a huge trade imbalance in favor of Russia.
For negative points: some russian dudes who doesn't know Turkey or Turks, are by default pro-Greek anti-Turk just because they think they should side with Orthodox people.
To sum up, Russia and Russians has a rising good image at the Turks' eyes. I hope our leaders don't do stupid things to mess this.
They quickly become the second largest group of tourists after germans and we appriciate that a lot.
Turkish men's weaknesses for blondes also resulted in many marriages which are especially common in the region Turkish Riviera (Antalya, Alanya, Bodrum etc..)
They in return sell us gas at the highest price and made quiet a lot of money and there exist a huge trade imbalance in favor of Russia.
For negative points: some russian dudes who doesn't know Turkey or Turks, are by default pro-Greek anti-Turk just because they think they should side with Orthodox people.
To sum up, Russia and Russians has a rising good image at the Turks' eyes. I hope our leaders don't do stupid things to mess this.
Bigfoot3814
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What does the word "Turkey" mean in the Turkish language?
Bigfoot3814
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What? Why?
