Call these Turkish and Islamic Men ‘Marriage Whores' For the Visa

Submitted by Linda (United Kingdom), May 24, 2007 at 17:09

I spent 5 - 6 months traveling around Turkey some years ago >

After 5 minutes literally > the Turkish would ask you to marry them.

I mean - really ! Seriously ! I never saw these people before in my life!

Like me, all the other Western girls traveling through that country had all been asked countless times to be married. It was a joke !!

In Turkey "Will you marry me" is a pick up line. Like Western guys say ‘You look good' or something - In Turkey its "Will you marry me" - sorry to burst your bubble.

If one asks you in future - just say 'Yok"

That means no and buzz off - in Turkish !!

Call these Turkish and Islamic men ‘Marriage Whores' For the Visa

You have to understand their desperation. If a camel could get them out of the poverty they live in - in some of these mostly Muslim countries – they would marry it. On the whole if it is for a visa, you are being had / tricked into marriage.

More than likely an Islamic person will marry within their own family > wives and women, in general are unimportant, (at night in Turkey it is common to see hundreds and hundreds of men and not a single woman), so the women are subjugated there – for real. Why should you be any different, because you are a Westerner? They think Western women are all "whores". Why would they marry you and not a cousin, do you know that Muslim women have to prove their virginity with a medical test – before the guy would consider marrying her.

It is very likely that they will only consider marrying you > because they want what you have > Western passport and money/ better life. And believe me they will play the waiting game, especially if you are ‘their only hope'. Never send them significant sums of money, and possibly steer clear of them romantically altogether, but if you must, get your groove on/ do the dirty > but don't walk down the aisle > Cuz it Ain't Love !!

Always stay in control > if you marry them – you lose.

In France they have laws to protect you in these circumstances > If you were French you would have 7-10 years or so, to evaluate whether this person simply married you for a Visa. And they could be denied status at any time.

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