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Ya, Ok ...
Reader comment on item: Symposium: Turkey: The Road to Sharia?
in response to reader comment: No not at all
Submitted by BillBoy (Canada), Jan 19, 2008 at 13:08
And I'm Greek and I speak, read and write 4 languages and have traveled around the world more than you have.
It is quite obvious you don't know what you are talking about. Please do not compare Greece's standard of living to ... Turkey. Greece held the best Olympics ever in 2004. Greece has a world class infrastructure, public transportation system and the per capita GDP is 4 times Turkey's.
For all the aid Turkey gets from the US and Israel, ...
Greece never had any help. They went from independence (from the Turks) in 1850's to WWI, to WWII, to civil war to dictatorship. We started in the eighties and are achieving more than you with 1/7 of the population.
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| Racist Islamic ("moderate") Turkey massacred around 4 million - since its 1920s formation [66 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Maria | Nov 1, 2012 11:15 | 200223 | ||
 Racist Catholic ("moderate")Belgium massacred around 20 million- since its 1833 formation [109 words] | Mozere | Nov 2, 2012 03:44 | 200223 | ||
| Turkey in ? I'm out ! [102 words] | Robby (Belgium) | Jul 10, 2008 15:58 | 134800 | ||
| 2 | Who wants to be in EU ? [161 words] | Erkin | Jul 25, 2008 05:18 | 134800 | |
| 1 | RIOTS! [54 words] | hi | Jan 17, 2009 00:49 | 134800 | |
| 3 | We do not want EU too, do not worry robby the belgic [255 words] | Turk Aybike | Nov 1, 2009 11:25 | 134800 | |
| Roman [71 words] | Alexedra | Oct 4, 2014 08:04 | 134800 | ||
| NEVER to Turkey in the EU [118 words] | BillyBoy | Jan 19, 2008 12:57 | 118545 | ||
| 1 | Never to Turkey in the EU [312 words] | Kemalist | Jul 18, 2009 09:33 | 118545 | |
| 1 | noobstar [111 words] | Mert The Adolf | Oct 6, 2009 15:42 | 118545 | |
| İstanbul [15 words] | seçkin | May 13, 2011 14:17 | 118545 | ||
| No turkey in europe please [39 words] | Massimiliano | May 13, 2007 12:34 | 92718 | ||
| 1 | Turkish flag [794 words] | Jan | Jul 30, 2007 19:31 | 92718 | |
| 3 | YES to Turkey [341 words] | Nico K | Oct 10, 2007 16:24 | 92718 | |
| Its an imagination [34 words] | Gizmo | Mar 10, 2008 09:29 | 92718 | ||
| 2 | YES to Turkey [417 words] | MARMARIS | Apr 7, 2009 19:05 | 92718 | |
| Our dear marmaris and Turkish delusions [168 words] | dhimmi no more | Apr 8, 2009 07:35 | 92718 | ||
| 1 | Keeping Europe European [804 words] | Tom | Mar 16, 2007 09:25 | 86450 | |
| Educated European tom makes an uneducated European guess [430 words] | Enver Ethemer | Mar 23, 2007 16:43 | 86450 | ||
| Rape and Mid Easterns [63 words] | Octavio | Mar 23, 2007 19:06 | 86450 | ||
| No2Turkey [38 words] | Alex Jones | Jul 5, 2007 17:18 | 86450 | ||
| 1 | to the pure, pure european [465 words] | esin | Dec 6, 2007 20:55 | 86450 | |
| agamemnon [127 words] | erol | Jan 17, 2009 01:11 | 86450 | ||
| Road to Sharia [87 words] | Enver Ethemer | May 14, 2009 18:08 | 86450 | ||
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| No not at all [174 words] | Erdem | Oct 24, 2006 16:28 | 58936 | ||
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| reply [22 words] | aidonis | Mar 26, 2007 13:37 | 58936 | ||
| No problem [150 words] | Enver Ethemer | Mar 28, 2007 14:11 | 58936 | ||
| ... [8 words] | aidonis | Mar 29, 2007 11:54 | 58936 | ||
| Grey wolf [16 words] | Enver Ethemer | Mar 29, 2007 17:27 | 58936 | ||
| You are jealous... [141 words] | Tekin | Jun 4, 2007 10:09 | 58936 | ||
 Ya, Ok ... [121 words] | BillBoy | Jan 19, 2008 13:08 | 58936 | ||
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| WHERE İS EUROPE [121 words] | cem akcaoglu | Feb 22, 2006 07:43 | 30176 | ||
| no to eu [699 words] | can | Apr 5, 2006 23:50 | 30176 | ||
| Turks have complexes too! [372 words] | Marianna | Oct 4, 2006 00:49 | 30176 | ||
| perfect answer [18 words] | ali | Oct 8, 2006 14:18 | 30176 | ||
| 10 | to marianna..... [242 words] | denizz | Nov 11, 2006 11:19 | 30176 | |
| Turks ? [100 words] | Kapageridis Stavros | Jan 21, 2007 11:08 | 30176 | ||
| dear marianna [240 words] | tuncer | Mar 20, 2007 17:49 | 30176 | ||
| Another ignorant european [100 words] | Enver | Mar 23, 2007 17:12 | 30176 | ||
| ON EUROPE AND TURKEY [41 words] | AS | Mar 24, 2007 17:18 | 30176 | ||
| what u said is complitely wrong [42 words] | Nigel | Jun 30, 2007 06:22 | 30176 | ||
| for stavraetos,the agent provacateur [64 words] | girayhan | Sep 29, 2007 19:11 | 30176 | ||
| 1 | No... [259 words] | No_name_gr | Jul 22, 2008 06:25 | 30176 | |
| does the soul exist? [976 words] | erol | Jan 17, 2009 02:29 | 30176 | ||
| India. [10 words] | safa bal | Oct 16, 2011 16:14 | 30176 | ||
| whats that ?? [66 words] | response to marianna | Apr 25, 2012 09:52 | 30176 | ||
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| No to EU! [40 words] | Ronald Matthews | Dec 30, 2005 04:15 | 30118 | ||
| No to EU! Let's Talk Genocide... [569 words] | Yusuf Sami TURKER | Mar 4, 2006 04:25 | 30118 | ||
| TURKEY IS THE COUNTRY OF TOLERANCE! [42 words] | Ogun | May 31, 2006 09:57 | 30118 | ||
| Its time for Turkey to dump the EU application and flush it . [97 words] | Bulent Ozdemir | Oct 13, 2006 02:27 | 30118 | ||
| Dont you talk!!!! [135 words] | Ayhan | Oct 27, 2006 02:09 | 30118 | ||
| stop, in the name of love [154 words] | erol | Jan 20, 2009 08:52 | 30118 | ||
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| 1 | Turkey get lost! [18 words] | European | Feb 24, 2011 13:02 | 30118 | |
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| Some perspective [45 words] | Ronald Matthews | Dec 30, 2005 04:20 | 28879 | ||
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| Algerian Genocide [24 words] | Ronald Matthews | Dec 30, 2005 04:17 | 27865 | ||
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| A Grand Game - wake up ! [396 words] | Kevin Williams | Oct 3, 2005 13:11 | 26566 | ||
| A Grand Game - wake up ! [35 words] | Ronald Matthews | Dec 30, 2005 04:24 | 26566 | ||
| Turkey - EU [68 words] | Ozcan Erdonmez | Jul 23, 2006 03:00 | 26566 | ||
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| 1 | Discrimination Against Turkiye [450 words] | David Sharon | Dec 21, 2006 09:52 | 22117 | |
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| David Sharon [13 words] | Sýla | May 18, 2007 06:27 | 22117 | ||
| 1 | Turkey joining the EU would be the death of Europe! Say no to Turkey! [18 words] | David Anderson | Jul 4, 2007 18:53 | 22117 | |
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| 4 | Turks, Greeks and Europe [803 words] | Billy Boy | Jan 19, 2008 16:26 | 22117 | |
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| Some education [205 words] | Levent | Mar 10, 2006 19:37 | 22059 | ||
| Response to Levent [179 words] | mam | Apr 12, 2006 17:02 | 22059 | ||
| Tsk Tsk [978 words] | Levent | Apr 14, 2006 23:15 | 22059 | ||
| Just in case that isn't sufficient.. [208 words] | Levent | Apr 16, 2006 01:00 | 22059 | ||
| Tsk Tsk Indeed! [383 words] | mam | May 2, 2006 14:42 | 22059 | ||
| And you call us deniers of reality... [114 words] | Levent | May 17, 2006 13:31 | 22059 | ||
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| Robert John's response [537 words] | Levent | May 31, 2006 23:17 | 22059 | ||
| Some expert witness! [374 words] | mam | Jun 2, 2006 13:07 | 22059 | ||
| Ad homs won't change the content [226 words] | Levent | Jun 10, 2006 18:27 | 22059 | ||
| simply incoherent [253 words] | mam | Jun 12, 2006 11:36 | 22059 | ||
| So you can't source it... [22 words] | Levent | Jun 13, 2006 05:43 | 22059 | ||
| Over and out [147 words] | mam | Jun 15, 2006 11:45 | 22059 | ||
| Well Documented? [113 words] | Levent | Jun 16, 2006 06:35 | 22059 | ||
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| Let's educate ourselves [389 words] | Cenk | May 10, 2005 14:21 | 22046 | ||
| Either you believe in democracy or you don't? [114 words] | Jacob Carmiel | May 9, 2005 10:57 | 22029 | ||
| Democracy what is it? [9 words] | Enver | Mar 23, 2007 17:33 | 22029 | ||
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| The myth of Turkish secularism [88 words] | Octavio Johanson | May 8, 2005 05:03 | 22023 | ||
| The myth of Turkish secularism [27 words] | Ronald Matthews | Dec 30, 2005 04:30 | 22023 | ||
| State of the EU [433 words] | Levent | Jan 2, 2006 09:22 | 22023 | ||
| Dont want to say I told you so... [719 words] | Levent | Mar 12, 2006 22:01 | 22023 | ||
| reply to Ronald Matthews [50 words] | betül | Mar 21, 2006 07:31 | 22023 | ||
| Ronald [21 words] | Sýla | May 18, 2007 06:30 | 22023 | ||
| TURKEY is a democratic and TURKISH country!.... [254 words] | çepni | Jul 21, 2007 17:59 | 22023 | ||
| Difficulty to predict developments [441 words] | Werner | May 7, 2005 22:39 | 22021 | ||
| Cracks in democracy [121 words] | Arvind Madhavan | May 7, 2005 03:32 | 22019 | ||
| Not in my name [225 words] | Octavio Johanson | May 6, 2005 18:30 | 22016 | ||
| Response to Mr. Johanson [143 words] | Germain Lucas, Canada | May 10, 2005 12:37 | 22016 | ||
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| About Turks [46 words] | tuncer | Mar 17, 2007 19:27 | 22016 | ||
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