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Submitted by JEC (United States), Jun 19, 2008 at 23:46

When I first met my Turkish man and on our first date, he told me why Turkish men do not tell their girlfriends that they are beautiful (at least to them) is because it is a curse to say that, there is a belief that if they say that something might happen to their beauty. They will use other words and show you to make up for it (my man tells me that I'm HOT). He will also tell me that I look so good today, etc. but he does not use the word beautiful for his cultural custom beliefs. Hope that helps you.

I think Turkish men are incredibly handsome, charming and they do focus on "you", we have only been dating for a couple of months but I have found that this man is very considerate. He is a great guy, but not all of them can be classified (in an overall generalization, no matter what nationality you are, men are men. It's the individual that you need to focus on and not the culture.

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