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Post by balamir on May 17, 2007 19:05:55 GMT 3
www.ataturk.com/content/view/44/80/Ever read this book?Ýt looks good,do you know will it translate into Turkish? And: The idea of being Turkish is debated. For instance, when I asked [President of Kazakhstan] Nursultan Nazarbayev, sitting in his $18 million Boeing, "Who are you," the first thing he said was, "I am a Turk," which surprised me.
I said, "What do you mean by that?"
He said, "I don't mean anything to do with Turkey. Those people in Turkey are half-breeds. They are the descendants, mixed with the people who are already there. We conquered them. They intermarried, and they formed Turkey. We are the pure Turks."Nazabajev really said this? 
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Post by kokturk on May 17, 2007 20:03:01 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 17, 2007 23:06:13 GMT 3
I had a look at that book and one of our close friends read it. The book is quiet biased and gives more importance to anti-Turkish views, while it also supports Recep Tayyip Erdoðan.
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Post by nisse on May 18, 2007 1:57:17 GMT 3
why does it feel that that articel was a little bit anti-turkish
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2007 8:57:12 GMT 3
I read it twice and I think it's a great book. I didn't notice anything anti-Turkish in that book,what do you think was anti-Turkish about it? I didn't know they had it in Turkish, what do the Turkish readers in Turkey think of this book?
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Post by balamir on May 18, 2007 9:13:08 GMT 3
And: The idea of being Turkish is debated. For instance, when I asked [President of Kazakhstan] Nursultan Nazarbayev, sitting in his $18 million Boeing, "Who are you," the first thing he said was, "I am a Turk," which surprised me.
I said, "What do you mean by that?"
He said, "I don't mean anything to do with Turkey. Those people in Turkey are half-breeds. They are the descendants, mixed with the people who are already there. We conquered them. They intermarried, and they formed Turkey. We are the pure Turks."Nazabajev really said this? What about this?Read the reportage in the link. And what is the book about?Battles? |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2007 20:06:04 GMT 3
The book is mostly about modern day politics, major events and cultural issues of the Turk World.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 20, 2007 20:38:16 GMT 3
The author praises RTE (surely an anti-Turk as he openly says that he gets annoyed by the useage of the name "Turk") and claims that Ebulfeyz Elçibey was a "drunkard who got ousted by his people because of that". That is purely untrue.
He also claims that most of the Turks are still living in the Middle Ages.
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Post by BAWIR$AQ on May 23, 2007 18:43:18 GMT 3
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2007 18:55:22 GMT 3
The author praises RTE (surely an anti-Turk as he openly says that he gets annoyed by the useage of the name "Turk") and claims that Ebulfeyz Elçibey was a "drunkard who got ousted by his people because of that". That is purely untrue. He also claims that most of the Turks are still living in the Middle Ages. When did he say all of this? |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 23, 2007 22:39:10 GMT 3
The prime minister or the author? The prime minister said it two or three years ago ("If you say 'How happy of me to be a Turk', someone would have the right to say 'How happy of me to be a Kurd'"; "Turk is a minor identitiy, the major identity should be 'Turkeyian'").
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Post by Atabeg on May 24, 2007 0:42:58 GMT 3
I have a copy of the Book in English verry good one indeed I enjoyed reading it
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2007 12:53:21 GMT 3
The author of the book, did the author of the book say anything bad about Turks?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 25, 2007 22:52:38 GMT 3
I didn't check the book completely so I can't say anything clear.
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