To yasmine: dolmus drivers

Submitted by istanbulchick (Turkey), Sep 22, 2009 at 09:10

I haven't been harassed by any dolmus drivers but have been almost killed by them, inside and out of the dolmuses. I have been locked in taxis twice by perverts. First one asked me if I was Russian and I told him no I was American. He then locked the doors and said "we will be friends" and made the international sign for intercourse. Same thing happened to a TURKISH friend of mine. Only her abductor kept telling her he was going to take her to the hamam.

Phone calls! God help the foreigner who has a Turkish guy call her mobile by accident! It's happened to me several times. Most recent was two months ago. Phone rings, I answer, unknown male on the other end. I tell him wrong number and hang up the phone. Turk-jerk texts back "I love you my baby." I ignore it and he called back. I ignored and he texts "My baby I love you talk to me!" I text back "I am married and pregnant." His reply was "no problem I am married too." I wrote back "I am eight months pregnant and married!" He writes back "no problem I ** you in a$$." I texted back "leave me alone or I will tell my husband." At that point he just kept calling over and over to the point that I just turned my phone off. The next morning I woke up, turned on my phone and not five minutes later another rude message. I went to work and told my boss what was going on. He took my phone and called the Turk-jerk and ripped into him. The Turk-jerk's reply: "I thought she was alone." Like that makes it okay?!!!! Whether I was married or not was not the issue, I was obviously not interested. But, what people, especially Western women need to realize is that to the muslim-male mind you are NOTHING. It does not matter what you want or do not want. This is their psychology. You cannot and will not change it.

And before the apologists start it has nothing to do with their level of education. I was at a party with friends and they introduced me to a doctor. The friend I was with was making small-talk with him, nothing serious, which I joined. I was not friendly or unfriendly with him. Later, at the buffet table he approached me and asked for my mobile number. I politely refused saying "No, my husband prefers that I don't share my number with men." His response "no problem, we can both f*** you." Another time I met with an engineer to discuss private English lessons. He asked how much the special lessons were. I assumed he was asking about the lessons because in Turkish private and special are the same word/meaning. I repeated again how much the lessons were and he said again "no, the special lessons. How much?" I asked what special lessons? I told you conversation lessons are x$ and grammar are xx$." He finally said "the lessons on your bed, how much are those?" I am sure Turks will come on here screaming "they were not Turks they were Kurds!" No, sorry, but Ottoman Turks are just as disgusting at Kurdish Turks.

More apologists will accuse us women of bringing it on by our dress. Again I refute that. I dress more conservatively than many Turkish women do. My Turkish girlfriends often tease me by telling me I dress like an old woman or a "mommy." They too hate the behaviour of Turkish men. In the tourist areas of Istanbul I have seen the barmen/waiters coming on to really old and fat and overly unattractive foreign women. They also come on to attractive foreigners. Aggressively. Does not matter if the woman is Caucasian, Asian, African. Just non-muslim. And of course when they are turned down they respond by calling the women prostitutes and whores. Turkish women are spared being called prostitutes and whores. No matter how we dress/behave we are all seen the same way in the sick muslim-male minds. We are less than human to them. So you clowns who think your Egyptian/morrocan/jordanian/blah blah blah man loves you, well, you are delusional fools.

These are not isolated incidents. This crap happens every day. I take comfort in the knowledge that when I leave here I can go home and not have to put up with it. But that will not be the case if you bloody stupid women with low self esteem keep importing these muslim animals into the west.

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