Eid sparks soul-searching in Turkey after bombs

Reuters ^ | 25 Nov 2003 | Claudia Parsons

[eyespysomething]

I try to email the respective embassy when a terrorist attack happens. This is the email I got back from the Turkish Ambassador (to date the only reply I've ever received):



Dear Ms. XXXXXXX,


Thank you for your kind concern in the wake of the acts of terror in Istanbul that took the lives of over 50 innocent persons and wounded 750 more. Your reaching out to our Embassy and thus to the Turkish people at this trying hour is greatly appreciated. The scourge of terror can only be defeated through the joint effort of all nations.


O. Faruk Logoglu

Ambassador

[observer5]

" Eid" holyday?

What are they celebrating. Their prophet doing another virgin? A truely sick religion...

[yonif]

I believe it is the holiday which marks the end of Ramadan.

[yonif]

Ping.

[a_Turk]

Look at what you wrote, and then tell me who is sick..

[a_Turk]

Thanks for the ping..

[a_Turk]

ping

[a_Turk]

Thank you. We really value your concern. Let's work together to stamp out this satanic scourge.

[Shermy]

Police estimate they are just a handful, just 200-300 supporters of this movement. But you don't need a large army to do this nowadays

But it helps to have a state-paymaster.

[prairiebreeze]

It's a pretty far stretch for any conspiracist to opine that Israel or America bombed synagogues or the British Consultate.

Prairie

[a_Turk]

You don't have to be a genius to figure out that it was the US and Israel who schemed to bomb Istanbul, but you do have to be in denial.

Far as I'm concerned there are more Americans who congure up conspiracy theories like that, and who balme Bush, Blair, and Sharon for the terror, than there are Turks in existance..

Then again, who cares what a few silly people think. They are bakers, grocers, and carpeting salesmen at best, and that's as far as their reach goes.

And no matter what they say out loud, deep inside they know the truth they'd rather not admit.

Sort of like a deluded bastard who claims his mother's not a whore..

[aristotleman]

The imams seemed to have figured this out quickly enough. Let's see how this resonates with the arabs.

[McGavin999]

One, a 24-year-old university student named Sibel Ates, wears jeans, ear-rings and make-up. The other wears an all-encompassing black chador covering her hair and body.

This is Turkey's gift to the world, and Ataturk's gift as well. This is hope for the middle east.

[Allan]

One, a 24-year-old university student named Sibel Ates, wears jeans, ear-rings and make-up.

These days a lot of young men in Istanbul also wear ear-rings in a pathetic attempt to imitate the West.

[Turk2]

Not really. There were Ottoman Sultans who wore earings as well. Eventhough I guess you are referring to punk rockers, heavy metal people, ravers,etc. Besides, where's the correlation between liking a certain kind of music and immitating the West. Are people who listen to Blues music trying to 'pathetically immitate African Americans'?

[Allan]

These days I don't think there are too many young Turkish men trying to imitate Ottoman sultans.

I guess it's a matter of taste
but one of the things to which I look forward getting out of North America and travelling East
is
not seeing young men wearing ear-rings or with hair dyed blue.

Fortunately
outside of Istanbul and Ankara
these fashions have not taken hold much in the rest of Turkey.

[observer5]

Islam is a sick religion concocted by a pathological fraud monster.

[observer5]

Soon the world will be forced to recognize that Mohammad was a fraud, a mass murderer and a rapist.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And no matter what they say out loud, deep inside they know the truth they'd rather not admit.

I feel kind of sorry for them.

Blessings upon you and yours this Holiday. Stay safe.