Ask Turkish members anything about Turkey

[Hashoeva]

Many of us dislike German Turks. Nobody thinks that they’re European here, also an average German Turk is way darker than us ironically. They act like Arabs in Turkey, they can’t even talk in Turkish as a native speaker, they are not aware of Turkish culture as well.

U talk really nonsense. Turks in Europe are brought up with Turkish culture and language. Actually their first language is Turkish. And they often talk Turkish with each other anywere.

[Charles Bronson]

U talk really nonsense. Turks in Europe are brought up with Turkish culture and language. Actually their first language is Turkish. And they often talk Turkish with each other anywere.

Dont listen to her, I was born in Germany and growing up with the turkish culture my mother language is turkish and I can speak the language very well.


My mother and father born in Turkey and they can not speak proper german, I must be talking in my mother language.


I go to in a turkish school everytime after the normal school I go for 2 hours in a turkish language class every day and a every turk I know going to in a turkish school.

[Tigranes]

U talk really nonsense. Turks in Europe are brought up with Turkish culture and language. Actually their first language is Turkish. And they often talk Turkish with each other anywere.

Do you think you know better than the actual Turks living in Turkey?

[Kyp]

a) Do you view Mehmet II as a national hero?


b) Opinion on Alevi Turks?


c) how well does average Turk know bout his tribal origin?

[itilvolga]

U talk really nonsense. Turks in Europe are brought up with Turkish culture and language. Actually their first language is Turkish. And they often talk Turkish with each other anywere.

Do you know better than me? Of course they know how to speak Turkish but not as native, that’s already what i said. They have a heavy accent, even heavier than the accent of Kurds of Turkey. Who tf cares in which language they speak with each other, still their Turkish is terrible and yes, they have cultural issues here, they don’t have Turkish culture properly.

[Marmara]

a) Do you view Mehmet II as a national hero?

He is viewed as a hero in Turkey by pretty much everyone.

b) Opinion on Alevi Turks?

I find Alevism strange, actually i find every religious practice apart from mainstream Hanafi Sunni practices strange, due to upbringing. They are okay though.

c) how well does average Turk know bout his tribal origin?

Only Yörüks and Turkmens actually know their tribal origins, and some people fabricate origins.

[mergen3]

a) Do you view Mehmet II as a national hero?


b) Opinion on Alevi Turks?


c) how well does average Turk know bout his tribal origin?

A=yes
B= Alevi turks are merciful and open minded people. I love them. Without the policies of the ottoman empire most turk would be alevi(bektaşi). most of young alevi turks are irreligious(this is good for me). But the elderly are also respectful of the differences. They suffered a lot from the ottoman empire. They are still marginalized by the goverment(RTE's world). Conservative turkified people dont like Alevi turks . Because alevi turks are free- spirited...they have their villages close to my village and no differences(culture and phenotype)yoruk. We call them Tahtacı in western anatolia. They still keep many traditions coming from central asia.

[porpozontokonto]

a) Do you view Mehmet II as a national hero?

He's been viewed as a national hero by almost everyone because he conquered muh Istanbul. Though i like to think he made himself much more influental in our history by reforming the Ottoman constitution and defining the country as a centralized imperial state. Imo he should be more appreciated as a man of statecraft, not because he conquered a city.

b) Opinion on Alevi Turks?

Alevism is mainly a nomadic Kurdish/Turkmen thing. They are syntcretists who at the time opposed the Ottoman Hanafi authority and got violently oppressed for it. You can see the obvious traces of Paganism and other religions in their folklore.

c) how well does average Turk know bout his tribal origin?

Well enough. This myth of Turks not knowing they were Turks until Pan-Turkists and nationalists came over is whole bullshit. They had the notion of their ancestors invaded Rûm from Khorasan and Transoxiana. Evliya Çelebi mentioned many times that his entire blood line were from Khorasan and he claimed that Ahmed Yesevi was his direct ancestor.

[Hajimurad]

How Turkish scientists describe origin of Greeks (Pontic, Asia Minor, Cypriot), Armenians and Kurds? With quotes.

[Kyp]

Do you feel closer connection to Turks from other countries (Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Balkans etc.) or to turkish speaking minorities in Turkey?