Posted on 07/24/2007 9:53:20 AM PDT by BMC1
"What has become of Kemal Ataturk's Turkey? Go to Europe, and you will see. Most of the Turks here are drug dealers, outcasts. Moreover, the English here have a custom. On Christmas, they eat what they call 'turkey.' Imagine, they call it "turkey," and they serve it as food at the table. This shows the kind of hatred that is deeply rooted in the West - they serve the Turkish, Ottoman, Muslim man as food at the table, for entertainment and as a sign that they have slaughtered him. What has become of Turkey? It has not entered the E.U., and it does not belong to either the East or the West. When Erdogan and his people ruled in Istanbul, people did not have to worry about security matters. The E.U. and all the transparent organizations in the world testified that their hands are clean and that they are not corrupt. This is why the people elected them, and this is why the military intervened now." [...]
“This shows the kind of hatred that is deeply rooted in the West - they serve the Turkish, Ottoman, Muslim man as food at the table, for entertainment and as a sign that they have slaughtered him.”
Yeah, that what I’m thinking each time I sit down @ the table @ thanksgiving & Christmas. Would up-chuck if I thought I was eating moozlums.
What a ridiculous article to post.
FYI..must read is Ralph Peters’ column today on Turkey at nypost.com
Paranoid rantings of the under educated.
Just fyi, This is how I heard of turkey’s etymology:
http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~ubaysal/hindi_in.html
TURKEY : A COUNTRY AND A BIRD WITH THE SAME NAME?
Turkey, as the name of the country where Turkish people (i.e. Turks) live, was derived from “Turk” or “Tourk” in old turkish or Arabic or Persian; and from “Turcus” in medieval Latin for which the plural form was “Turci”. [1] The word experienced various adaptations like “Tourkoi” in Byzantine-Greek or “T-u-kue” in Chinese. In Turkish, “Turk” means strength and therefore, “Turkey” means “The Strong (people).”[2]
As the name of a bird, the word “turkey” was used as early as the 16th century by the European people. The name was given to the Guinea Fowl (numida meleagris) which was imported from the African island of Madacascar through Turkey by means of traders who dealt with the Near East.
The traders were known as “turkey merchants” and hence, the bird that was sold by these merchants was known by the English in particular as a “turkey” or “turkey cock”. [3,6]
The turkey which is the essential dish of the Thanksgiving Dinner in the American tradition is originally a North-American bird (meleagris gallopavo), although it has been domesticated in most parts of the world including Turkey. [4] Where as the Guinea fowl is a different bird than the North American turkey, they are related in that, both belong to the order of gallinaceous birds (birds which nest on the ground). [5]
As described above, before Columbus discovered America, the British people knew the the turkey as the bird imported by the turkey merchants.[6] When the first British colonists settled on the newly-discovered lands of the American continent and found around their fortresses, a native bird which bore a strong resemblance to the bird which they had known from their homeland, they called it “turkey”. The early colonists carried great amounts of this North American bird back to England and introduced there as turkey.
The first appearance of the word “turkey” in English literature coincides with the time of this introduction, i.e. 1524. [7] Within about 50 years of its introduction to Europe, turkey became associated with the Christmas festivities (1575). [8]
Some sources indicate another path through which the turkey was introduced to Europe. Since prehistoric times the Aztec Indians had domesticated a gallinaceous bird. The Spanish invaders brought it to Spain and introduced it to the king in about 1519. [9] From Spain it spread all over Europe, reaching England in 1541. The bird which was brought to Europe by the Spanish was the occelated turkey (agriocharis occelata) found in Mexico, Guetemala and Brazil, and is very much like its North American sibling. [10]
In any case, the American bird, - either North or Central - was introduced to the European people who had known guinea fowl as “turkey”, the name that was given on account of its import path by the turkey merchants. The introduction of the new bird, which was very similar to the guinea fowl, resulted in its designation as “turkey”.
References
[1] Partridge, Eric “Origins. A Short Etymological Dictionary of the Modern English” 1963, p.743.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Klein Ernest “A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language” vol.2 p.1665.
[4] author’s note : turkey is avery popular dish in Turkey at the New Year’s Eve
[5] Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary.
[6] Barnhart R.K. ed. “The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology” 1988, p.1176.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Encyclopedia Brittanica 1989 ed. vol.22, p.398.
[10] Ibid. vol.27 p.274.
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by Ugur Baysal
Note : This article was published in Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weekly Newspaper; Worcester Telegram Daily Newspaper; and Springfield Union News Daily Newspaper in November 1990.
Of course it’s ridiculous. It just illustrates the idiotic thinking of Islamics.
What is even more ridiculous is there are people out there that believe this stuff.
There is no logic or critical thinking by these loony.
It demonstrates the Muslim's rise above adversity!
Just imagine! Generations of raping one's cousins, and someone can still type.
LOL
“What is even more ridiculous is there are people out there that believe this stuff.”
You’re not talking about our esteemed congressmen and women, are you?
I would question how NON-corrupt any Turkish Government might be.
I must admit, some milk came out through my nose at that....
“..in a war with terrorists.”
No, in a war with Islam.
You’re right.
Is it fried in greece?
I ate a Saudi Arabia once; it gave me gas.
Another time I ate a Persia. Iran to the bathroom for days.
David Foote, a prof of demographics - says that Turkey is expected to become the largest country in Europe within 50 years. Boy now won’t that be great.
Yeah, that what I’m thinking each time I sit down @ the table @ thanksgiving & Christmas. Would up-chuck if I thought I was eating moozlums.
Hey, I like Turkey but I like to cut it into little pieces and cook it with carrots, peas and potatoes. Yummmmmm! A good Turkey Pot Pie - that’s for me and I am not ashamed!
It is because one half of the country does not know, it lives in a la-la-land.
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