From: senel@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Hakan)
Subject: Re: Greek communities throughout europe
Originator: senel@necs
Organization: Takanumi University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:18:03 GMT


Panos Tamamidis writes:

>>   I myself have only spent a few days in Turkey, but I found everyone
>> quite friendly and helpful when I was there, even though I had a Greek
>> name (which they could see in my American passport) and though I had
>> come to the country directly from Greece.  

>>   Maybe an interesting question to ask members of this group would be,
>> if you are Greek and have travelled in Turkey, how did the people react
>> to you, especially the ones who knew you were Greek?

> I have been in Turkey, for about 10 days.  Some people where very
> friendly, some where neutral, and some where hostile.  Overall, however,
> most people where very willing to talk to you, and open a discussion.
> Things can be different in other parts of Turkey (I visited Constantinopolis,
> only).

com'on Panos,

Oh man, he he he he he. Panos has been to Turkiye. Well, well, well.
As far as I remember correctly, a couple weeks ago, you wrote an article
which contains the sentence "I wouldn't like to go to Turkey...".
I am searching for that article. This sentence proves that you haven't been 
to Turkey Panos. In English we call this situation "LYING". he he he he

> One thing that impressed me was the dressings of women (i.e. they were
> covering their faces), and that there were relatively few women walking
> in the roads. I was said, that Constantinopolis is the most modern
> part of Turkey.

  Your hatred towards Turkiye popped up again. he he he he he. ho ho ho..
You made my day man. he he he he. Have you dreamed lately? he he he...
You have never been to Turkey, right? They were covering their faces ha?
he he he. Were they walking up side down as well ha? he he he he..
Panos Panos Panos, you and I know quite well that you have never been to
Turkey ho ho ho ho ho

  Since you have never been to Turkey, let's ask this to Jon Corelis.
He can tell what he saw in Istanbul because ,u know, unlike you he stayed 
in Istanbul for a while.
 
>>   And if you are Turkish and have travelled in Greece, how did the
>> people react to you, especially the ones who knew you were Turkish? 
>
> We first beat them to death; if someone survives, then we put him/her
> to prison :))

No Panos, that's not right. First of all, policeman looks at your passport,
if he finds a border check of Northern Cyprus, then he puts you in a 
prison sorta place and keeps you there at least four hours. (just like me).

 Anyway, I have been to Greece a couple of times, let me say 95% of the 
people were friendly. But unfortunately maybe 80% university students were
hostile. With the rest, we discussed several things and all of them showed
their mediterranian side and we yelled at each other, afterall we
were able to talk about other subjects in a calm manner. Anyway, there is a
distinction between educated people and ordinary people. Ordinary people have
no problem with Turks but educated people (you are not included in this
category because you are lying :-) ) were filled with hatred. That is my 
observation.

 
> -- 
> ---> Panos Tamamidis
>     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hakan
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