From: senel@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Hakan)
Subject: Re: An interesting poll about the feelings in Turkey
Originator: senel@irlsp
Organization: Takanumi University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:56:21 GMT

AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT THE FEELINGS IN TURKEY BY Micheal Polymenakos

> Subject: An interesting poll about the feelings in Turkey
> Reply-To: michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos) 

> The following is from a poll taken by the Turkish
> newspaper TURKIYE and published on 31/8/92 (8/31/92),
> asking Turks wow they feel about other people and other matters.
>
> MOST DISLIKED                   MOST LIKED
> Armenia - 90%                   (Turk)Cyprus - 93%
> (Greek)Cyprus - 89%             Japan - 81%
> Greece - 84%                    Azerbaijan - 80%
> Israel - 81%                    Pakistan - 79%
>
> Do you consider yourself
> Asian - 58%
> European - 34%
> Both - 5%
> Neither - 1%
>
> Should Turkey persist on joining EEC
> Yes - 82%
> No  - 33%

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 I guess you spent a lot of time on this article huh, Micheal.
 I advise you review your mathematics knowledge once more
 before creating imaginary articles. It helps man....

let's see....

1. Do you consider yourself
   Asian    - 58%
   European - 34%
   Both     - 5%
+  Neither  - 1%
-----------------
              98%

  oops you missed 2 points. Strange ha Micheal even if you have included
  "Both" and "Neither" options, 2% of the people think that we came
  from outer space.

2. Should Turkey persist on joining EEC
    Yes - 82%
 +  No  - 33%
 -------------
         115% 

   This is the most exclusive part of this article, number of attendants
exceeds the level 100%. This means that if you divide 100 by 100, you come 
up with 115. This must be a magical numbers. It can happen for sure. How about 
15% of pregnant women and something happened during the query. 15% error is 
not a problem for me babe.


  SUGGESTIONS:
  
 1. write 100 times, 
         "I don't know how to sum 2 numbers up which must be equal to 100"

 2. write 100 times,
         "I intended to change minds of Jewish people about Turks
          by posting this article on soc.culture.jewish"

 3. write 100 times,

            2 + 2 = 4
            2 + 3 = 5
            .   .   .
            .   .   .
            99+ 1 = 100   

 4. write 100 times,
        
            "ohhh shiiiit, I failed..."


 Let's come to the point MOST DISLIKED COUNTRIES. Well, Greece must be at the
top. The second is Southern Cyprus for sure. Percentages of those countries may
be slightly more. Armenia is of course the third one. :-) But I am not sure
about Isreal. That percentage must be very low around 10%. Because Turkiye
has started to learn true face of neighbor countries lately. 

  For example, in september 1989 (exactly three years ago), Armenians
gave a proposal to Congress to accept 24th of April as the day of Armenian
genocide. We know that, the second man in Isreal Embassy in Washington,
Odet Eran, talked to many congressmen for rejecting the proposal.
Also in Jewish Week newspaper, it was stated that "x-manager of AIPAC,
American-Isreal Political Action Committe, Morris Amitay, lawyer of our
newspaper Doug Feith, Paul Berger who represents Jews in Turkiye made
lobby against that proposal".

  Turkish people know its friends and enemies. You don't need to prove
it by quoting from "Turkish National Enquirer" type of newspaper. You need  
to learn what kind of people usually read the newspaper TURKIYE.
Your intention was obvious and I can imagine what you thought when you
wrote that article...

Hakan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish