‘Where are you, my love?’ Thousands attend Gay Parade in Istanbul

[Kemalisté]

Thousands of activists attended the LGBTI Gay Parade held on Istanbul’s İstiklal Avenue on June 29, capping this year’s Pride Week.

As in every year, the event was marked by colorful chants and slogans that defied both the political order and social discrimination that the LGBTI community regularly faces.

“Where are you my love?” part of the crowd chanted during the march, while the other answered “I am here my love.”

“Put your legs on your shoulders against fascism,” “We are the soldiers of Freddy Mercury,” “AKP go away, the queers are here,” and “The earth would shake if queers were free,” were other popular slogans used on banners.

“You wanted three children, then you don’t like it,” read the banner of one member of the LGBT families association, in reference to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s well-known instruction to families to have at least three offspring.

The police were again the instigator of moments of tension when they blocked entry to Taksim Square, preventing the march from finishing in the symbolic area. Gezi Park was cordoned off an hour before the start of the march. But some of the activists painted the infamous water cannons (TOMAs) omnipresent on İstiklal Avenue with loving rebellious messages.

Meanwhile, the British Consulate showed its support by raising a rainbow flag on its mast. The 12th Gay Parade ended the annual Pride Week that started with the Trans Pride March on June 22.

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[portusaus]

You won points with me this morning, Turks, and now you've just lost them all.

[Kemalisté]

http://www.dha.com.tr/fotogaleri/act/49150_29107_29062014212713_7.jpg
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[Kemalisté]

You won points with me this morning, Turks, and now you've just lost them all.

Someone put this guy in a homosexual prison

[Arianiti]

Big achievement, huge progress. Let's echo through the world that Turkey has thousands of gays :)

[Kemalisté]

Huge achievement, big progress.

Ordem e Progresso :)

Istanbul Pride has been organized for about 10 years, yet you had that in Tirana for the first time this year. Yours is an achievement, ours has been a regular practice.

[Rojava]

I support this, solely because it will piss off Erdogan and his Islamic nonsense.

[Arianiti]

Istanbul Pride has been organized for about 10 years, yet you had that in Tirana for the first time this year. Yours is an achievement, ours has been a regular practice.

I see that you have already created a tradition.

I have not seen the one in Tirana tbh, not even in photos. Did it really happen?

Homosexual tradition I believe has its roots in the east, so it could be called a traditional custom :P

[Kemalisté]

I support this, solely because it will piss off Erdogan and his Islamic nonsense.

as well as neo-nazi stormfront leftovers on this forum

[Equilibrium]

What's up with you and your gay pride threads?

[Kemalisté]

I see that you have already created a tradition.

I have not seen one in Tirana tbh, not even in photos. Did it really happen?

Homosexual tradition I believe has its roots in the east.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lmQBHvr5jA

[Kemalisté]

What's up with you and your gay pride threads?

Because this forum is full of far-right neo-nazi birdbrains. I like pissing them off.

[Arianiti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lmQBHvr5jA

I do not understand why they called it pride?

I see nothing to be proud of fucking in the shithole. I mean why you have to go on the streets and scream I am having sex, I fuck a shithole.

[Dandelion]

Kadin kadina. Woman to woman. An expression also used in Dutch 'for the women' (as a euphemism for lesbian).

[Kemalisté]

I do not understand why they called it pride?

I see nothing to be proud of fucking in the shithole.

It's called LGBT pride all over the world.

[Arianiti]

It's called LGBT pride all over the world.

Aha, oki doki .

[Danishmend]

I'm tired of seeing these gay threads in our subforum to be honest.

[Hayalet]

Because this forum is full of far-right neo-nazi birdbrains. I like pissing them off.
I will let you in on a secret: The neo-Nazis in this forum do not care about gay parades in Turkey. At all.

[Kemalisté]

I will let you in on a secret: The neo-Nazis in this forum do not care about gay parades in Turkey. At all.

Doesn't seem like that.


You won points with me this morning, Turks, and now you've just lost them all.

What's up with you and your gay pride threads?

[Hayalet]

Doesn't seem like that.
How is Equilibrium a neo-Nazi, stupid?

[Kemalisté]

How is Equilibrium a neo-Nazi, stupid?

If one feels disturbed about gay threads he is a homophobic, not necessarily a neo-nazi. But fits in with the general tendency here.

[Neanderthal]

If one feels disturbed about gay threads he is a homophobic, not necessarily a neo-nazi. But fits in with the general tendency here.

Or uninterested in faggot matters and tired of being flooded with such shit?

[Kemalisté]

Or uninterested in faggot matters and tired of being flooded with such shit?

If you're uninterested why are you here? fuck off then.

[Neanderthal]

If you're uninterested why are you here? fuck off then.

BECAUSE YOUR SHIT IS ALL OVER THE FORUM. FUCK OFF YOU MOTHERFUCKING DICK SUCKING BITCH.

[Kemalisté]

BECAUSE YOUR SHIT IS ALL OVER THE FORUM. FUCK OFF YOU MOTHERFUCKING DICK SUCKING BITCH.

Well; I see neo-nazi, homophobic, racistic bullshit all over the forum but do I complain that much?

[Equilibrium]

Because this forum is full of far-right neo-nazi birdbrains. I like pissing them off.

And so you concluded that threads about gay-pride parades in Turkey are the tool of choice for your ambitious endeavor? Well, can't argue with that logic.

[Beit El]

Because this forum is full of far-right neo-nazi birdbrains. I like pissing them off.

Because nothing speaks of your intellectual rigour like an ad hominem and a strawman argument in one sentence. :rolleyes:

[dado]

disgusting really...a lot of job for mr erdogan in next mandate

[Armand_Duval]

I wonder how is that the exteme muslim wing deals with this.

[Kemalisté]

Because nothing speaks of your intellectual rigour like an ad hominem and a strawman argument in one sentence. :rolleyes:

Suck my dick, terrorist sympathizer.

[Kemalisté]

I wonder how is that the exteme muslim wing deals with this.

Not as violently as extreme orthodox christian wing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/world/europe/gay-rights-rally-is-attacked-in-georgia.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/27/russia-gay-rights-protest-orthodox-church

[Beit El]

Suck my dick, terrorist sympathizer.

Great argument there, birdbrain. Unfortunately for you I'm heterosexual so I'm not interested in your dick.

[Virtuous]

Still not homosexual enough to join the Liberal-Communist European Union :laugh:

[LightHouse89]

I support right wing turks! not these rainbow clowns.

[LightHouse89]

Still not homosexual enough to join the Liberal-Communist European Union :laugh:

I wouldn't wish the liberal-clown EU on any poor soul......I support right wing turks they are turkey's future. not these rainbow clowns.

[Virtuous]

I wouldn't wish the liberal-clown EU on any poor soul......I support right wing turks they are turkey's future. not these rainbow clowns.

If I have to be honest I have no concern for their issues, as they have no concern for ours'. But of course, who the hell (in his right mind) would join this E.U?

[Kemalisté]

Great argument there, birdbrain. Unfortunately for you I'm heterosexual so I'm not interested in your dick.

What am I supposed to argue with a terrorist sympathizer?

[Kemalisté]

I wouldn't wish the liberal-clown EU on any poor soul......I support right wing turks they are turkey's future. not these rainbow clowns.

They're not our future. Turkey's future was previewed at the Gezi protests. The participation amount at the LGBT pride march last year amidst the Gezi protests was one of the highest in Europe, because heterosexuals were also there, to show solidarity with them. Right-wing mentality is destined to die! not only in Turkey also in Europe.

EU will keep growing.

[gültekin]

I wouldn't wish the liberal-clown EU on any poor soul......I support right wing turks they are turkey's future. not these rainbow clowns.
danke shön :thumbs up :D
http://www.odatv.com/images/resimler/foto(3).jpg

but dude, right wingers don't want to join E.U

[Kemalisté]

danke shön :thumbs up :D
http://www.odatv.com/images/resimler/foto(3).jpg

but dude, right wingers don't want to join E.U

I'm sure this is affiliated with the Turkish Nazi Party. Ridiculous.

[portusaus]

I'm tired of seeing these gay threads in our subforum to be honest.

They're coming for your nation too. Don't let them gain any ground!

[gültekin]

I'm sure this is affiliated with the Turkish Nazi Party. Ridiculous.
no, frome german nazis. "Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten" and check out the address

[Kemalisté]

They're coming for your nation too. Don't let them gain any ground!

No matter how much you stomp your feet; you can't prevent the world from changing. Novus Ordo Seclorum!

[Beit El]

What am I supposed to argue with a terrorist sympathizer?

You're supposed to give me an actual argument, despite what I might or might not be. Isn't that what you people are all about? No judgement towards people who are different? What happened to your tolerance?

[Kemalisté]

You're supposed to give me an actual argument, despite what I might or might not be. Isn't that what you people are all about? No judgement towards people who are different? What happened to your tolerance?

Well; I'm sure you would tolerate a Bin Laden sympathizer. It's different when the terrorist is a Westerner, right?

Also I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a pro-Robespierre Jacobinist. Death to all those who reject the change.

[Beit El]

Well; I'm sure you would tolerate a Bin Laden sympathizer. It's different when the terrorist is a Westerner, right?

That's not really relevant though, I'm not the one who identifies as "Centre-left, Social liberalism, Republicanism". So it's not my duty to be tolerant because tolerance is not my political agenda.

As for Osama Bin Laden, he wasn't such a bad guy, even though again this isn't relevant since Breivik was a domestic terrorist, not an international one.

[LightHouse89]

You're supposed to give me an actual argument, despite what I might or might not be. Isn't that what you people are all about? No judgement towards people who are different? What happened to your tolerance?

white people are not alone in this fight....... my god they will reach the gates of mecca before its all over..... then the muslims will realize they must work with us to defeat this unstoppable train........ we are doomed if we do not work together.....my god it will be everywhere within a 100 years.

[LightHouse89]

That's not really relevant though, I'm not the one who identifies as "Centre-left, Social liberalism, Republicanism". So it's not my duty to be tolerant because tolerance is not my political agenda.

As for Osama Bin Laden, he wasn't such a bad guy, even though again this isn't relevant since Breivik was a domestic terrorist, not an international one.

well killing children was not wise....or random people but we have to constructively use liberal tactics to defeat them......... imagine a pacifist Nazi? that would be hilarious but it could easily work. it sounds absurd but it could work..... this rainbow fascist parade will stop at nothing......they will conquer the world with their rainbow flags and destroy everything.....how intolerant of them!

[LightHouse89]

They're coming for your nation too. Don't let them gain any ground!

they are everywhere......they will be parading and conquering mecca....... once the muslims are defeat they are doomed.

[Kemalisté]

they are everywhere......they will be parading and conquering mecca....... once the muslims are defeat they are doomed.

LGBT groups aren't parading freely in a middle eastern Muslim country soon so don't worry about that... People just can't see the fact that Turkey is much closer to Europe than to the Middle East so this event should be considered to be within that frame. You're all illusioned by the presence of a bunch of devout Muslim immigrants coming from poor, undeveloped parts of some Islamic countries so that you think as if all Muslims are like that. Bible also has some doctrines that are not given a fuck in the Western world which is secularized (LGBT people could't parade in a literally Biblical country). Turkey is also a secularized and Europeanized nation where Quranic doctrines are often not given as much fuck as they are in the Middle East.

[Casandrinos]

''Durkey is a secular state''

''Let's take a pic of every homo we have''

[DarkSecret]

they are everywhere......they will be parading and conquering mecca....... once the muslims are defeat they are doomed.

So Dejjal is LGBTI Pride? LOL

[DarkSecret]

''Durkey is a secular state''

''Let's take a pic of every homo we have''

Why are you jealous of our secularity? We don't have to prove anything. It is by law we are secular...

[Kemalisté]

Why are you jealous of our secularity? We don't have to prove anything. It is by law we are secular...

Which Greece is not. Hahaha.

[Casandrinos]

A lot of Israeli sperms in this forum.

Mister President and his supporters will not be happy.

http://tundratabloids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/erdogan-the-protest-breaker.jpg

[Sky earth]

As long as Turkish gays are totally isolated from the mainstram Turkish society, parades like this must continue year by year to show that they should have the same rights as hetereosexuals.

[Wadaad]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.

[LightHouse89]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.

I thought Montreal was worse than Toronto.

[cally]

I do not understand why they called it pride?

I see nothing to be proud of fucking in the shithole. I mean why you have to go on the streets and scream I am having sex, I fuck a shithole.
:rotfl:

[Kamal900]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.

Well said dude. You dont need to copy everything in the west to be considered civilized and all that. Im an atheist, and while i do support secularism, but at the same time, i wouldn't support anything that are harmful to the society either(homosexuality, perversion, feminism and etc). Those are marxist ideals, and they are very harmful to the majority populace.

[Casandrinos]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.

The protesters except from the gayturks are a new westernized middle class that evolved during their economic ''miracle''

They would do anything to be considered secular by the west.

Even despise their own culture if the west think of it as backwards

Sad cases prone to trolling :icon_lol:

[legolasbozo]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.


İ think this is more than some european wannabe Turks pretending how much progressed they are for western standarts. The thing is the parade held duing ramadan and there isnt any criminal report about that. Western media like to portray Turkey as "islamization" but this organization is a proof how turkish society is tolerable.

[Dandelion]

İ think this is more than some european wannabe Turks pretending how much progressed they are for western standarts. The thing is the parade held duing ramadan and there isnt any criminal report about that. Western media like to portray Turkey as "islamization" but this organization is a proof how turkish society is tolerable.

In the West people are realists that Istanbul tends to be 'Western' and the inland and the East more 'Eastern' (as in very conservative and traditional euphemistically put). We're not as ignorant as you may think.
Depending on where in Turkey, you're obviously better off in Turkey than in much of Europe as a LGBT person.

[Linebacker]

Where are you,my AK and a bag of full mags?

[Dandelion]

Well, the first gay prides might have happened in the so-called Western World, but I don't think that makes it a something that defines the west. In the end I just don't care, don't like it, though don't care. Many homosexual people also think such parades are distasteful because in some regard it reinforces the stereotype about their sexuality. I can also see positive aspects of this. You can make fun of it.

If someone sees the West as a morally depraved place because of this, I think that person has to look closer to what happens in the world and set his/her priorities straight. Most normal people care more about real problems.
Even more tragocomedic when it's coming from a third world immigrant to the West. It's like spitting on our civilization, while hypocritically not wanting to live in his own. The least wanted kind of immigrant.

[LightHouse89]

Where are you,my AK and a bag of full mags?

lol hahahahahahahaahaha :p:cool:

[LightHouse89]

In the West people are realists that Istanbul tends to be 'Western' and the inland and the East more 'Eastern' (as in very conservative and traditional euphemistically put). We're not as ignorant as you may think.
Depending on where in Turkey, you're obviously better off in Turkey than in much of Europe as a LGBT person.

What is accepted in own city in US is not accepted everywhere else. If homosexuals threw a march down south or in the rural out west people would protest against it...in the south it would be a violent counter protest. I could image the KKK would show up...... LOL it would be pretty funny to see on tv though.

[Dandelion]

What is accepted in own city in US is not accepted everywhere else. If homosexuals threw a march down south or in the rural out west people would protest against it...in the south it would be a violent counter protest. I could image the KKK would show up...... LOL it would be pretty funny to see on tv though.

That's a spectacle I would be willing to see. However, the Klan of today isn't the Klan of 60 years ago, so it might be some tea party type counter protesters and some klansmen showing up who offend the first counter protesters by 'associating with them'. :p Even more hilarious then.

A bit like follows:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/152162/a-town-undecided

[Kemalisté]

In the West people are realists that Istanbul tends to be 'Western' and the inland and the East more 'Eastern' (as in very conservative and traditional euphemistically put). We're not as ignorant as you may think.
Depending on where in Turkey, you're obviously better off in Turkey than in much of Europe as a LGBT person.

It's not just Istanbul. There are quite a lot of cities in the Aegean and Mediterrenean as well as Eastern Thrace which are not much different than an average European city (southern). Also; not all the inland is conservative. Ankara is the capital, and its biggest district Cankaya is a secular headquarters. Eskisehir, in the central Anatolia which hosts many young university students, has been turned into a Turkish Venice under the incumbent mayor. Tunceli, while very undeveloped thanks to the state isolation, is an Alevi majority city and thus not conservative.

[Sky earth]

The homosexuality doesnt disgust me as much as the deep desire to mimic the west in everything, even when western progress leads you down the cliff, you still want to mimic it?

Imitate the west all you want, you will never match it, whether in its achievements or even its decadence...those Istanbul queers think their gay pride festival is so cool and ultimate? It's just a cheap cheap copy of the gay pride events here, and if they think of any decadent act, it has been done and surpassed by an infinite mile here, so go ahead...try to top the faggottry you get in places like San fransisco or Toronto, good luck.

This has nothing to do with copying the west. Gays from Turkey have a harder life than gays from any Western countries and they should fight for their basic rights with those parades. They are discriminated, isolated and ignored by the mainstram Turkish society which shouldn't be the case in a progressive state.

[legolasbozo]

In the West people are realists that Istanbul tends to be 'Western' and the inland and the East more 'Eastern' (as in very conservative and traditional euphemistically put). We're not as ignorant as you may think.
Depending on where in Turkey, you're obviously better off in Turkey than in much of Europe as a LGBT person.

This parade held in ankara as well, central anatolia. And there are folks around cities living there, çankırı-çorum-yozgat for instance. And those people conservative like hell. But there isnt any criminal report about this event in ankara as well. İ m living in çankırı, central anatolia, when i was a child you cant eat anything during ramadan, you couldnt have been walk as a guy with earring. but today it is much different though, conversely what western media think, people tend to be more liberal since akp. Even expats living in my city from usa to japan.

[Azmar]

Actually homosexual sex was decriminalized during the Tanzimat reforms in the 19th century. Up until the last decade, anal sex was a criminal offence in Texas. Historically, the West was more severe about homosexuality than Turkey. It's only more recently that things have changed. The gay pride parades are a western phenomenon that comes from the Stonewall riots, which is why it is held in June. However, homosexuality is not at all something new for Turkey and there was a gay subculture in the Ottoman Empire.

[Kemalisté]

This has nothing to do with copying the west. Gays from Turkey have a harder life than gays from any Western countries and they should fight for their basic rights with those parades. They are discriminated, isolated and ignored by the mainstram Turkish society which shouldn't be the case in a progressive state.

You're talking to a barbaric man eating somalian. Don't even bother discussing human values with it.

[Azmar]

white people are not alone in this fight....... my god they will reach the gates of mecca before its all over..... then the muslims will realize they must work with us to defeat this unstoppable train........ we are doomed if we do not work together.....my god it will be everywhere within a 100 years.

Wow. Are you against civil rights or do you support it but you just hate gay people and you never heard of James Baldwin or Bayard Rustin. It really surprises me to see such nasty people with your mentality still exist.

[Böri]

''Durkey is a secular state''

''Let's take a pic of every homo we have''

Actually in the mind of European people this can play as positive aspect. In Europe they seem to like homosexuals more than Muslims. Turkey is really secular btw and this is a proof. Some people are Muslims and some are not, the state isn't Muslim either

[Wadaad]

You're talking to a barbaric man eating somalian. Don't even bother discussing human values with it.

ancestry: alevi

three for three with you guys.

[Wadaad]

Actually homosexual sex was decriminalized during the Tanzimat reforms in the 19th century. Up until the last decade, anal sex was a criminal offence in Texas. Historically, the West was more severe about homosexuality than Turkey. It's only more recently that things have changed. The gay pride parades are a western phenomenon that comes from the Stonewall riots, which is why it is held in June. However, homosexuality is not at all something new for Turkey and there was a gay subculture in the Ottoman Empire.

the Victorians explained it away by claiming you live in a climactic zone that elicits sodomy:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Sotadic_Zone.PNG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotadic_zone


The difference between the 'gay subculture' before tanzeemat and after, is that before, it wasnt an attempt to ape the West in everything, ie: its virtues and also its vices.

[Annihilus]

the Victorians explained it away by claiming you live in a climactic zone that elicits sodomy:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Sotadic_Zone.PNG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotadic_zone


The difference between the 'gay subculture' before tanzeemat and after, is that before, it wasnt an attempt to ape the West in everything, ie: its virtues and also its vices.

Wait wut, you talk about sodomy?

don't do that dude

[Ryujin]

don't bump this old thread you idiots

[Böri]

Some Turkish members blame and say if as I act like the 'Aga,(Boss) of the Turkish TA section and people are afraid of me. I am really sorry if İ caused this so people please dont stop from posting what you want to post.
Our homosexual Communist Kiro OP friend is also bothered by me, he hates me and cant start his threads. Please do, no worry.

lgbt prides Turkey 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbD52yd3j0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeB7VLxsjA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnDbFw-rhY


that will help him not to hate my people and he will hopefully stop his LEFTIST HATE SPEECH against my people, Türks as he call my people Reactionnary and anti-Progress and in Leftist rethoric this is call for genocide and massacre as you know (like how fascists call subhuman and call for massacres)

[Böri]

Some Turkish members blame and say if as I act like the 'Aga,(Boss) of the Turkish TA section and people are afraid of me. I am really sorry if İ caused this so people please dont stop from posting what you want to post.
Our homosexual Communist Kiro OP friend is also bothered by me, he hates me and cant start his threads. Please do, no worry.

lgbt prides Turkey 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbD52yd3j0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeB7VLxsjA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnDbFw-rhY


that will help him not to hate my people and he will hopefully stop his LEFTIST HATE SPEECH against my people, Türks as he call my people Reactionnary and anti-Progress and in Leftist rethoric this is call for genocide and massacre as you know (like how fascists call subhuman and call for massacres)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfz5x4D53HM

[Newman]

Lol, Turks.. The swedes of the muslim world..

[Böri]

Lol, Turks.. The swedes of the muslim world..

Sweden is officially Lutheran and a kingdom. Turkey is officialy secular. We arent part of the Muzzies world.

[Newman]

Sweden is officially Lutheran and a kingdom. Turkey is officialy secular. We arent part of the Muzzies world.

You know what I meant, turkoman.
Like you said, secularism is the key.


PS: Sweden has no state religion, you have mistaken with Norway & Denmark.

[crazyladybutterfly]

“Put your legs on your shoulders against fascism,”

lol wut

[catgeorge]

Istanbul is the faggot capital of the world i have said it before... if I am on the mountains with a pair of binoculours and sniper rifle and see 100,000 martyr turkish ladyboys invading greece i would not know whether to laugh or shoot them.

[crazyladybutterfly]

turkey has officially the most beautiful lesbian population lol

I am not kidding, their women are actually beautiful


and.. is does this guy look turkish?
http://www.dha.com.tr/fotogaleri/act/49150_29107_29062014212713_30.jpg
this is what I have always thought to be the average turkish old guy. I mean phenotypically ..

Am I wrong

[Kamal900]

Istanbul is the faggot capital of the world i have said it before... if I am on the mountains with a pair of binoculours and sniper rifle and see 100,000 martyr turkish ladyboys invading greece i would not know whether to laugh or shoot them.

God bless the golden dawn in cleansing such filth from their country. Stay conservative and strong.

[Ryujin]

that will help him not to hate my people and he will hopefully stop his LEFTIST HATE SPEECH against my people, Türks as he call my people Reactionnary and anti-Progress and in Leftist rethoric this is call for genocide and massacre as you know (like how fascists call subhuman and call for massacres)

I already apologized for my stupid words. In some cases, you say stuff you don't mean to say because you get angry.

I'm not calling for genocide and massacres.

People change, you know? when you firstly came to the forum you were acting as pro-Arab conservative Muslim, then you turned more Turkish-centered and secular. I appreciate that, so leave the past in the past.

Now take the olive branch of peace

http://ayvalikorfanoszeytinyagi.com/galeri/2014/12/g%C3%BCvercin-zeytin-dal%C4%B1-e1418517732199.jpg

[Ryujin]

Istanbul is the faggot capital of the world i have said it before... if I am on the mountains with a pair of binoculours and sniper rifle and see 100,000 martyr turkish ladyboys invading greece i would not know whether to laugh or shoot them.

Istanbul is not any more faggot than Athens, more or less the same.

Ask Google and she will bring you tons of LGBT displays from Athens, Thessaloniki etc.

Greece is a LGBT-friendly country, so it's very ironical that you attempted to throw shit at Turkey at this issue. If it was a Russian that would've been more accurate.

[DarkSecret]

turkey has officially the most beautiful lesbian population lol

I am not kidding, their women are actually beautiful


and.. is does this guy look turkish?
this is what I have always thought to be the average turkish old guy. I mean phenotypically ..

Am I wrong

You wouldn't be so wrong. Yes lesbians are generally more beautiful while gay men are kiros hahahaha.