From Turkey - Other Comments
In accordance to my previous comment "My blog will not be political", I'd like to have a few cultural comments on Turkey.
Keeping on my even line of praising something and then toning down the praise, I'd like to bring under the lens some things of the Turkish culture.
But I suppose you can predict, dear reader, the attitude 'raghead' middle easterners have towards the Turks. Especially people from Iraq (from which I have many friends and teachers). But hey! I said NO BEING POLITICAL.
Why did I say this? I want everyone to be able to enjoy this blog.
It's not like I'm in Turkey myself...though this blog might land some people in jail for reading this...considering the extremely tight grip the Turkish military has on the people and for me to being an outspoken Muslim who sees Securlism as a system that simply won't work in Turkey unless you twist and turn everything, from people to culture until it's pale and bleeding, especially if it limits the freedom that comes with democracy and punishes women for their choices and their religious creed---But no being political, I say!
But seriously...a headscarfed wife is the most popular reason for not voting for someone? This is just--
No being political. I'm sorry. This is a hot-topic issue for me. Sorry again.
I'd probably get a warning if I criticize my own government relentlessly. I'm cool; I have no issues to begin with.
I think a person who talks a lot and thinks more is more of a danger to a government than anything else.
Yo...
I'll speak cultural. Aha! Loopholes galore.
To many of us, 'backwards' Middle Easterners, the Turks are like this, or as said in my tongue:
Mathal alatrak kaman naza' lilsirwal,
Tah alsirwal; tar althawb wa bake 'arian
(The like of) (the Turkish man) (is like who) (tore off) (for the pants -the jeans-, or to the West)
(was lost) (the pants); (it flew) (the robe) (and) (he) (is now naked).
Kam yastir 'oratah bil-futat,
Sutir binisal alsuyuf
(he rose) (to cover) (his privates) (with-rags)
(he covered himself) (with the blades) (of swords)
A dark comedy, considering how unnaturally strong the military is and how contradictory their culture is.
Taganu bima kan wa-fakaduuh,
Watarahum yalwuun alseuf.
(they sang) (with) (the past) (and-lost (while not knowing they had it))
(And you see them) (twist) (the blades)
The "Past" is Democracy, something they didn't have in the Ottmanian times, but had it before that.
Twisting the blades means turning them everywhere. It's like inviting another opinion and then silencing it.
I made the poetry, by the way. It's cultural and not political, so I'm clean.
No. Many of us don't hate Turkey, but just feel that they look down on us for what they did to us; getting us the losing side of World War II and looking down on us for it, costing us Palestine and not turning or trying to do anything, and other...grievances, mostly cultural. The poems sum a few up quite well for intellectuals.
Keeping on my even line of praising something and then toning down the praise, I'd like to bring under the lens some things of the Turkish culture.
But I suppose you can predict, dear reader, the attitude 'raghead' middle easterners have towards the Turks. Especially people from Iraq (from which I have many friends and teachers). But hey! I said NO BEING POLITICAL.
Why did I say this? I want everyone to be able to enjoy this blog.
It's not like I'm in Turkey myself...though this blog might land some people in jail for reading this...considering the extremely tight grip the Turkish military has on the people and for me to being an outspoken Muslim who sees Securlism as a system that simply won't work in Turkey unless you twist and turn everything, from people to culture until it's pale and bleeding, especially if it limits the freedom that comes with democracy and punishes women for their choices and their religious creed---But no being political, I say!
But seriously...a headscarfed wife is the most popular reason for not voting for someone? This is just--
No being political. I'm sorry. This is a hot-topic issue for me. Sorry again.
I'd probably get a warning if I criticize my own government relentlessly. I'm cool; I have no issues to begin with.
I think a person who talks a lot and thinks more is more of a danger to a government than anything else.
Yo...
I'll speak cultural. Aha! Loopholes galore.
To many of us, 'backwards' Middle Easterners, the Turks are like this, or as said in my tongue:
Mathal alatrak kaman naza' lilsirwal,
Tah alsirwal; tar althawb wa bake 'arian
(The like of) (the Turkish man) (is like who) (tore off) (for the pants -the jeans-, or to the West)
(was lost) (the pants); (it flew) (the robe) (and) (he) (is now naked).
Kam yastir 'oratah bil-futat,
Sutir binisal alsuyuf
(he rose) (to cover) (his privates) (with-rags)
(he covered himself) (with the blades) (of swords)
A dark comedy, considering how unnaturally strong the military is and how contradictory their culture is.
Taganu bima kan wa-fakaduuh,
Watarahum yalwuun alseuf.
(they sang) (with) (the past) (and-lost (while not knowing they had it))
(And you see them) (twist) (the blades)
The "Past" is Democracy, something they didn't have in the Ottmanian times, but had it before that.
Twisting the blades means turning them everywhere. It's like inviting another opinion and then silencing it.
I made the poetry, by the way. It's cultural and not political, so I'm clean.
No. Many of us don't hate Turkey, but just feel that they look down on us for what they did to us; getting us the losing side of World War II and looking down on us for it, costing us Palestine and not turning or trying to do anything, and other...grievances, mostly cultural. The poems sum a few up quite well for intellectuals.