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9y ago
The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.
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9y ago
They did play a message from Ergodan when you call any number but only for clients of 2 mobile operators: Turkcell and Vodafone. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/telefonla-konusmak-isteyenlere-er... Link in turkish but it confirm
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9y ago
Amazon is eating the world because I'am 2m tall with 48 size feet(eu, 13 us) and I didn't (couldn't) buy a single pair of shoes in a physical shop for 10 years now. Let the world burn and amazon eat it when it's medium r
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9y ago
Turkey took the refugees before the deal. The deal was to keep them from crossing the borders to Europe not to take them in Turkey.
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9y ago
No one is denying it in Turkey even Erdogan's strongest critics. The fact that Erdogan used this opportunity to strengthen his position doesn't make it less likely. I really don't know what we have to prove it but this kind o
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9y ago
The attempted coup was from an islamist faction not secular one, I know it is more convenient for the west to think so but reality is not that white and black. Secular forces in the army, media and state were purged in by a coalition of er
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9y ago
As a Turk I can tell you to what extend I understand the other Turkic languages without any study: 100%: Turks from the balkans, Cyprus, Crimean tatars, Iraki and Syrian Turkmens, and Azeri turks from nothern Iran and Azerbaycan 80%: Turkme
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10y ago
I've always wanted to visit U.S.A. but coming from a muslim background I'll probably never do it. Just reading the post infuriate me.
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10y ago
I'm trying to follow the events in the U.S.A, I'm not american, it feels like that the "deep state" or "establishment" or whatever you want to call it, is laying the groundwork to kick Donald Trump out of the w
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10y ago
Sometimes I'm so absorbed by a novel, I seriously consider to arrive 'late' at work :D.
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10y ago
I have 4 hours of commute(train + tram/metro) daily..., read a dozen of novels from Isaac asimov and Arthur C. Clarke in 2 months. After work, I don't even have time to open my computer or do anything besides eating, shower.
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10y ago
the price for heaven's sake... it's me or every year the new model gets almost 100 bucks more expensive the the previous one. We can expect a base price of 1000€ in 5 or 6 years.
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10y ago
I don't know about Algeria, but again in Lebanon your so called "pleasant peaceful and beautiful place" was like that because it did favor minorities and some small groups at the detriment of others. It was bound to collapse
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10y ago
fortunately they are. This phenomena is just saddening, its the same thing on the other side and dialog become impossible.
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10y ago
Yeah youtube, the greatest source to get historical facts straight without any actual political bias.
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10y ago
"many of the great lights were not of Islamic extraction" ... really? many of them ? can you please write "many" more from "non Islamic extraction" "El-Khwarizmi, who was from a Zoroastrian family and may
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10y ago
the White man's burden syndrom? France was the colonial power in control over there, they used basic divide and conquer tactics. While the sunnis arabs are in majority in Syria they took another minority faction, the nusayriis, and tra
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10y ago
yours are more accurate of course. Mines were only rough translations.
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10y ago
one of the tweet says: beware people in the government, these guys use some app called bylock, I hope you haved "cracked" it already. another(from a gulenist it seems) says, guys don't use the same app for communications over
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10y ago
The coup has been orchestrated by the gulenist,a religous sect infiltrated inside the army. No one in Turkey need to hear Erdogan say it to believe it. For 12 years the secular/kemalists warn the government to stop supporting them. If
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10y ago
Is Gulen the leader of the Hizmet movement? yes did Gulen followers infiltrate the judicial system, police, and army and undermined secular forces under Erdogan's reign? yes Did Gulen and his followers turned against Erdogan when they
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10y ago
those gulenist judges threw 1000 officers in prison to weaken the secular force in the army and they put their people in it instead, we got these result today. The seculars like me are in a quandary: we know gulen is behind the coup, but we
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10y ago
It is very hard to prove something like this, you should understand that these kind of subversive groups don't work with a straight command chain. It is much more like ISIS cells, you don't know who is who and how they operate.
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10y ago
That's the thing, its not a conspiracy theory. Everybody already believe, even secular turks like me, that Gulen was behind many things in Turkey like: The imprisonment of more than 1000 "secular" officers in the army since 2
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10y ago
first of all he didn't leave Turkey under Erdogan's rule, he left much earlier because secular forces knew what he was and the circle was closing on him. He Left Turkey in 1999.
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I'am a big anti-erdogan turk but he never ever said that in the past it was a 'mistranslation' done on purpose and now that the coup has failed they use basic propaganda to corner him. Yes he is authoritarian fuck, yes he wan
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Yes, and the unfortunate thing is that it is Erdogan and his government that made this possible but the people will likely not remember how these people where best buddies and how their undermined every possible institution in Turkey in ord
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10y ago
Let me give you guys some more inside details: From the start it was clear that something was weird: they weren't enough soldiers to make a real coup, only a few hundred soldiers a few helicopters, tanks, etc... And it seems that they