60 Million Turks Rushed to the Borders??!
View : Baris Sanli
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Dec 19 2004
The Sundays are generally boring and I am bored. Nevertheless, I have
the rare chance to read Turkey sceptics’ comments and amuse myself.
Today my intention was to write a view as follows:
“Europe’s Turkey sceptics were right. As the accession talks end, 60
million Turks rushed to the borders of Europe, especially France. The
streets of Ankara emptied. Most Turks revealed their real faces,
beards grown down to their feet. As we talked with them they told us:
‘For 500 years, we hide our real identity, we were beating our wives
secretly, we were growing beards yet hiding it under plastic masks, now
we are free. This is our day, we can rush to the borders. Our only aim
in this life is to cook doner & kebaps and serve them to Europeans.’
Some Turks are already started swimming to Greek Islands from Izmir.
They claim, if they can start swimming now, they can reach the Greek
Islands by 3rd October. ”
Through the passage, I could be judging Turks by emphatising with
some of the Telegraph and Daily Mail writers, some Armenians and
some French.
Later on I felt sorry for my nation. The Europeans ain’t seen anything
yet. The only images of the Turks were carefully constructed by
ethnical minorities around Europeans.
We are fine with Greeks now, despite Cypriots. As the borders are
more relaxed now, they see us not as a “Nation that eats Greek”
but rather a “Nation which has two many similarities with Greeks”
In Turkish TVs there are drama series with subjects like “Turkish Girl,
Greek Boy, love, lies and etc. etc.” Like soap operas… This is the same
in Greece. Greek singer Natalie is currently popular, Turkish music
channels view her clips, nearly every 4 hours. But who cares? Turks
are this, Turks are that…. These arguments will never end……
This is Sunday, I need a holiday. I will watch telly and scratch my
belly. So I will finish my argument with a joke that was told by one of
my EuroTurk(parents:Turkish, passport:German) friends. This is for all
the Turkey Sceptics and Turkish nationalists out there.Cheer up mates!
German scientists decided to build a very powerful, super computer
which can answer every question in the whole universe. They designed
it for months, draw schematics, simulated, and the computer was
made ready.
After a few checks, they plugged the computer, turned on the switch.
This giant, groosome computer started with buzzling and tickling
sounds. And the prompt appeared on the screen.
The scientist excited to death. They were curious to test the thing.
One of them jumped and typed the question:
“Who will be the only power on this earth?”
The computer buzzled a bit, and a result came up from the printer,
answer was crap to the Germans:
“Turks”
The German scientists couldn’t believe a word they are reading. They
double checked every circuit on the computer, tested the cables but
nope! They asked the same question again:
“Who will be the only power on this earth?”
The computer again mimiced the same sounds, same answer came out:
“Turks”
Scientists began to talk with each other:
“These Turks are just selling pizzas and kebaps, how come they can
have the power, you know there are us, Americans, Japanese, but why,
why Turks?”
The computer answered:
“Everyone will construct shuttles, spacecrafts and colonise the
space. They will begin to live there, but these *** Turks will not
build a thing other then doner kebap, they will stay on Earth alone,
so they will be the only power on this Earth”
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