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Post subject: Have you ever visited turkey
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:43 pm
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Im wondering that how many people had visited turkey in this forum? Hope I willget an answer :lol:

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I visited Incirlik Air Base when I was in the Air Force. I realize that's not quite the same as really visiting the country. But I loved the food! 8)

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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:38 pm
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Yes, I was in the Navy and my shipped stopped there. I can't recall the name of the port but it was interesting. I don't think I did much but I did look around the city. I wasn't there for more than two work days and a Saturday or something. I wouldn't mind returning except for the cost of travel.


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Yes, I was in the Navy and my shipped stopped there. I can't recall the name of the port but it was interesting. I don't think I did much but I did look around the city. I wasn't there for more than two work days and a Saturday or something. I wouldn't mind returning except for the cost of travel.

That could have been Aksaz.

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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:30 pm
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When I lived in Italy (1980 - 1983) , my friend and I took a train from Venice to Istanbul (the route of the old Orient Express). We spent a week or so in Istanbul, taking lots of photos; we were both photographers and TV production guys back then. There were images of Ataturk (the founder of the Turkish Republic) everywhere.

This was 1982, right after the end of one of many Kurdish rebellions. There were no tourists back then and the economy was in shambles. Turkey was exporting every bit of coffee, so when we asked in our hotel about getting some, they sent us to a place where we had to tell the owner who sent us and why. He actually locked the place, closed the blinds, and made us coffee, which was illegal to sell except for museums like the Topkapi. Strange but true.

This was also when Prince Charles and Diana got married. The Turks were entranced by that. We were at a restaurant and all the waiters were watching the wedding. That's when I learned 3 words of Turkish..yok (no), limon(lemon) and ekmek (bread). We had an Italian-Turkish dictionary with us that served us well throughout our trip, but I also ended up using some Yiddish, which has words similar to German, where there are lots of Turks.

After leaving Istanbul, we traveled around the whole country for another month or so by bus and train. Everywhere we went, people would invite us into there homes for dinner, to sleep over, etc. and to have their photos taken. Everyone was fantastic and Turkey was a fascinating place to visit; primitive wild open spaces, historical sites such as Ephesus, Cappadocia, Kars ,Mount Ararat, Dogubayazit, Van,Istanbul itself. We also met a few tourists every now and then, mostly from Australia and New Zealand (they're everywhere).

One of the funniest things I remember was this movie we saw on TV. It was about a Turkish soldier whose fiancee was kidnapped by Greeks. The movie took place on Cyprus. He got so angry that he went on a personal war against the Greeks.
The funny part came when every time there was a battle, this guy was surrounded by hundreds of Greeks who would pour fire at him and miss every time; he would then fire one clip of ammo and hundreds of Greeks would fall dead. My friend and I were rolling on the floor hysterical. At the end, he killed the kidnapper and was reunited with his true love.

Eventually we returned to Istanbul by ship from the port of Bodrum, and from there, back to Venice. What an incredible journey it was. It's voyages like that that make living abroad so worthwhile.

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All I've seen is photographs and video footage, but it looks like a beautiful country.

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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:23 am
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Right after Desert Storm I was at Incirlik for a couple months and did some touring of Turkey. I made some good friends that I have since lost contact with. The hospitality of the Turkish people is wonderful and I wish that we in the USA had some of the customs that is part of the Turkish culture. I would return to Turkey anytime, if I had the money and time to travel.


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:06 am
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Yeah our films sucks there was a film called thean who saved the world thee was a man who goes to mars and in the mars there were grass! And spaceship missle launcher is a radio! But we have a beatiful country with full of culture and if Ataturk didnt made this country republic probably i cant have a fender so we love Ataturk


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:44 am
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I only visit Turkey on Thanksgiving....

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But, one of my instructors at Interlochen is from Turkey - Emre Yilmaz. Amazing spanish guitar player and a really great guy. I believe he lives in New York now though.

I's love to visit there though. And Greece as well, so beautiful. And the Greek girls - OMG. I want to go now....


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:13 pm
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Hey Ali! My wife and I are big friends of Turkey. First time I did InterRail in my teens I wound up in Istanbul for a week. All those minarettes and kiosks seemed impossibly romantic to me and I've been visiting ever since.

I was there one time in 1982, presumably at the same time as mclmk8d [above]. I don't remember the coffee crisis, though I'm sure he's right. One thing I've never understood: traditional Turkish coffee is one of the tastiest ways to drink that substance, yet in Turkey an honor as a guest is to be offered Nescafe. Go figure!

I was also in Istanbul in November 1989 working outdoors at the Topkapi Palace with a freezing blizzard blasting in direct from the Urals. Six weeks of that: I'd go every few hours to a certain little cafe in Divan Yolu to try to thaw out. One afternoon I was in there eating kebab with yoghurt dressing and drinking glasses of apple tea when someone ran in and announced that the Berlin Wall had fallen. So I have a very clear and slightly unusual memory of where I was when that moment in history occured...

My wife has a Turkish colleague who has become a good friend. She lives in Istanbul during the week and also has a nice wooden house out on the Princes' Islands for weekends - very nice! We've visit there often, and then usually travel on down to Bodrum or Marmaris where we hire a gulet (traditional Turkish sailboat) for a week or two. We lucked out the first time and got a very nice captain and crew, so we've gone with them lots of times since.

We really feel we are getting to know that south-west coast of Turkey quite well now!

Keep an eye open: there's several other Turkish members on this Forum...

Cheers - C


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:24 pm
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In turkey there is a word if you give your guest a turkish coffee if will be remembered for 40 years! Yeah in turkey coffee is like a water. Turkish people cant live if they havent drink a turkish coffee:lol:


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:15 pm
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port of call ANKARA with the uss connole in 86 I loved it . we entertained about 200 of the locals onboard with a big party . a fellow sailor and myself had the pleasure of singing for them a grunch of country rock tunes


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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:21 pm
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sailor dave wrote:
port of call ANKARA with the uss connole


Hi Sailor Dave. The USS Connole - is that a ship? You took a ship - to Ankara? Gosh...

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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:35 pm
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I stand corrected , make that ANTALYA


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sailor dave wrote:
I stand corrected , make that ANTALYA


Hahaha! Yes, that makes a whole lot more sense - you can see why I was surprised? I was getting amazingly impressed with the capabilities of the US Navy... :lol:

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