Comments on: Little Mermaid and Turkish EU Membership… http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership Old-fashioned Girl in a Post Modern, Hi-Tech World... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Elijah http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-482 Elijah Tue, 22 May 2007 05:55:28 +0000 http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-482 Haha. Don't you mean the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of Europe? Haha.

Don’t you mean the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of Europe?

]]> By: Will http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-485 Will Mon, 28 May 2007 11:51:05 +0000 http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-485 Thats funny and scary all in one moment. Whom ever it was who did it made a great point. Some day I hope to see Lille Havsfrue my self, and I hope she is still in the harbor and not sequestered in a museum of Danish culture because she is unaceptable to view culturally anymore. Ha det bra! Thats funny and scary all in one moment. Whom ever it was who did it made a great point. Some day I hope to see Lille Havsfrue my self, and I hope she is still in the harbor and not sequestered in a museum of Danish culture because she is unaceptable to view culturally anymore.

Ha det bra!

]]> By: Cinar http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-535 Cinar Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:51:26 +0000 http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-535 I was searching for Danish folkloric music to use in a slideshow I made about Denmark and bumped into your site and when I saw the writing above I was curious and have read it carefully. First of all, I am a fifty year old Turk living in Istanbul, studied in a German Highschool in Istanbul years ago where I had to learn German and English and had to make Abitur to be accepted to a German University. After I was accepted into Darmstadt TH, I decided I did not like Germany and moved to the US and got my degree in the US and after college worked in different positions in Turkey. You must know that Turkey is one of the least understood counties in the world by Europeans. The main reason for this is the Turkish peasenets (laborers)' immigration from the Turkish villages directly to the industrial centers of Europe years ago where they lived a cultural shock. You all know the consequences. Most Europeans think of Turkey along the lifestyles of these people and their descendants in Europe at the moment which is totally misleading. To understand the reality one should come and see the main Turkish metropolitan areas. Not only Istanbul, I mean the other major cities in Anatolia. You will be surprised to find out how "European" Turkish society is compared to some of the European countries at the moment. People here just have different traditions and lifestyles, just like a Corsican has compared to somebody from Helsinki for example. The Kurdish population concentrated mainly in the southeastern part of Turkey sum up to almost 15 out of 70 million. They are by no means a minority. Anatolian land is the world's number one melting pot (much more mixed than the USA) as far as social and etnical background is concerned. All these etnical groups have been living together here since centuries. We share a common history of Cristhian, Moslem, Jewish and Pagan religions. Most of the news you hear in the media about Turkey in the last decades give you only a partial picture. Without seeing the whole picture most of the times you naturally jump to wrong conclusions. You must differentiate the Kurdish origined people from the terrorist organization of PKK who killed closed to 3000 Turkish citizens including the ones from Kurdish origins by ambushes and bombing only since the beginning of this year. You could compare the situation to the old IRA from Ireland for eample. Unfortunately PKK still enjoys a wide financial support from some European Countries and USA to continue its terrorist activities here in exchange of some of the controlling power of the Northern Iraqi Oil and other international benefits in the area. Offcourse a big majority of Turkey is Moslem. However, our understanding of Moslem religion is far different compared to the rest of the Islam World, who does not like our interpretation of the religion. So, Turkey does not and does not want to belong to that part of the world. On the other hand a big majority of people here believe that we should not join the EU also. We all will see how things will turn up and whatever happens, I hope it will make people happy from all sides. I was searching for Danish folkloric music to use in a slideshow I made about Denmark and bumped into your site and when I saw the writing above I was curious and have read it carefully.
First of all, I am a fifty year old Turk living in Istanbul, studied in a German Highschool in Istanbul years ago where I had to learn German and English and had to make Abitur to be accepted to a German University. After I was accepted into Darmstadt TH, I decided I did not like Germany and moved to the US and got my degree in the US and after college worked in different positions in Turkey.
You must know that Turkey is one of the least understood counties in the world by Europeans. The main reason for this is the Turkish peasenets (laborers)’ immigration from the Turkish villages directly to the industrial centers of Europe years ago where they lived a cultural shock. You all know the consequences. Most Europeans think of Turkey along the lifestyles of these people and their descendants in Europe at the moment which is totally misleading. To understand the reality one should come and see the main Turkish metropolitan areas. Not only Istanbul, I mean the other major cities in Anatolia. You will be surprised to find out how “European” Turkish society is compared to some of the European countries at the moment. People here just have different traditions and lifestyles, just like a Corsican has compared to somebody from Helsinki for example.
The Kurdish population concentrated mainly in the southeastern part of Turkey sum up to almost 15 out of 70 million. They are by no means a minority. Anatolian land is the world’s number one melting pot (much more mixed than the USA) as far as social and etnical background is concerned. All these etnical groups have been living together here since centuries. We share a common history of Cristhian, Moslem, Jewish and Pagan religions.
Most of the news you hear in the media about Turkey in the last decades give you only a partial picture. Without seeing the whole picture most of the times you naturally jump to wrong conclusions.
You must differentiate the Kurdish origined people from the terrorist organization of PKK who killed closed to 3000 Turkish citizens including the ones from Kurdish origins by ambushes and bombing only since the beginning of this year. You could compare the situation to the old IRA from Ireland for eample. Unfortunately PKK still enjoys a wide financial support from some European Countries and USA to continue its terrorist activities here in exchange of some of the controlling power of the Northern Iraqi Oil and other international benefits in the area.
Offcourse a big majority of Turkey is Moslem. However, our understanding of Moslem religion is far different compared to the rest of the Islam World, who does not like our interpretation of the religion. So, Turkey does not and does not want to belong to that part of the world. On the other hand a big majority of people here believe that we should not join the EU also.
We all will see how things will turn up and whatever happens, I hope it will make people happy from all sides.

]]> By: Beaman http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-573 Beaman Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:48:49 +0000 http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-573 I agree with the majority of your points in this post. I don't think Turkey should gain EU membership but it could gain a 'special relationship' status nevertheless. I don't think Islamic politics can integrate with European politics and can only see friction if Turkey joins especially regarding free speech and blasphemy laws. I agree with the majority of your points in this post. I don’t think Turkey should gain EU membership but it could gain a ’special relationship’ status nevertheless. I don’t think Islamic politics can integrate with European politics and can only see friction if Turkey joins especially regarding free speech and blasphemy laws.

]]> By: kurt björk http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-1757 kurt björk Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:17:18 +0000 http://www.vikingprincess.net/82/little-mermaid-and-turkish-eu-membership#comment-1757 Islam är lika missbrukad som kristendomen av moral majority och turkiet är sekulariserat. Militär och akademiker vill bibehålla sekulariseringen!!men väst ffa. Sverige/svenskar motsätter sig Turkiska statens protester mot ickesekulriserade partier. Cypern "frågan" visar västs historielöshet. Under Grekiska militärdiktaturen ville starka grekcypriotiska krafter grekifiera hela cypern. Inget land i väst kom till turkcyprioternas hjälp. När grekjuntan föll så ville grekcyprioterna börja från ruta ett. Historiskt ligger hela ansvaret på grekcyprioter/grekland samt västs flathet under militärjuntan. Kurderna och kurdfrågan är historiskt engelsmännens kolonialrest med hela mellanösterns kartor ritade med linjal och inte efter folk, folkslag och natur. Persien och Egypten var fungerande stater resten var diverse folk,folkstammar som levde i karga och fattiga område.....till OLJAN upptäcktes. Familjen Saudi fick ett helt land uppkallat efter sig och något Kurdistan fanns lika lite som Sameland i norra Sverige/Norge/Finland/Ryssland. Att där bodde och bor kurder är inte samma som att det är en fungerande stat. Islam är lika missbrukad som kristendomen av moral majority och turkiet är sekulariserat. Militär och akademiker vill bibehålla sekulariseringen!!men väst ffa. Sverige/svenskar motsätter sig Turkiska statens protester mot ickesekulriserade partier. Cypern “frågan” visar västs historielöshet. Under Grekiska militärdiktaturen ville starka grekcypriotiska krafter grekifiera hela cypern. Inget land i väst kom till turkcyprioternas hjälp. När grekjuntan föll så ville grekcyprioterna börja från ruta ett. Historiskt ligger hela ansvaret på grekcyprioter/grekland samt västs flathet under militärjuntan. Kurderna och kurdfrågan är historiskt engelsmännens kolonialrest med hela mellanösterns kartor ritade med linjal och inte efter folk, folkslag och natur. Persien och Egypten var fungerande stater resten var diverse folk,folkstammar som levde i karga och fattiga område…..till OLJAN upptäcktes. Familjen Saudi fick ett helt land uppkallat efter sig och något Kurdistan fanns lika lite som Sameland i norra Sverige/Norge/Finland/Ryssland. Att där bodde och bor kurder är inte samma som att det är en fungerande stat.

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