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Turkiye’s promotion is not well done and not well fought against ones damaging the image. The first question in my brain is; “When will our beautiful country be called ‘Turkiye’ in English instead of ‘Turkey’ “? And I always ask; “Why fashion photographers, Hollywood and tourists bring to their countries a picturized 17-millions-metropol Istanbul of only gypsy provinces and Arab tourists as Turks, leaving its skyscrapers behind? And why tourism companies only show Blue Mosque in their posters but skip Bosphorus with pleasure? Is Blue Mosque really the symbol of Istanbul? Why then it is Eiffel Tower for Paris and Big Ben for London but not a church? Whilst these mistakes give wrong image to Turkiye, what is the reason to be sentenced to tell truth to foreigners? Saying ”Turkiye Turks came from Middle Asia”; “Huns invading Europe (Hungary) and Etruscans in Italy are Turks”, ”There are still many Turk countries in Middle Asia”, ”We are not an Arab country” over and over and getting tired.. Oh also starting with Germany and France, so many western countries have millions of Arab rooted immigrant citizens but why Turkiye is to be mentioned as Arab country??
George Clooney and wife Amal Alamuddin were chosen as spokesperson to prove it happened you know; we also tried to tell there was no Armenian genocide. The truth is, while fighting on west in I. World War, Ottoman Empire was kept busy on east with Armenian attacks, so Armenians in Istanbul were made to immigrate to east. However a Hollywood star was more on news.. And this year, terror organizations are on a try of harassing Turk soldiers fighting against them by delivering fake information on internet and showing innocent public as victims. Terror organizations are calling foreign countries to help them in five languages through social media and tying to harden the fight against terror, put up a war, damage the image of Turkiye.
Right before the subject goes heavier, let’s make a long list of daily life details.. Again, tourists pose with fez as soon as they arrive in Istanbul. Surprisingly no one says “If you want to wear a Turk hat, pose with a calpac”. Why don’t same tourists know the one they look for as ”kebab” passed from Afghans; ”shisha, hookah” from Persians;”hammam” from Romans to Ottoman Empire lands? Not seeing Turkiye, they come without reading about the country they are going to visit. Or who doesn’t tell to them? Why do they say ”whirling dervishes” to semazens? Whirling people are not called dervishes. When will we tell cheese, yoghurt got spread to Anatolia, Europe and finally whole world with the migrations of Turks from Middle Asia? When? In Europe everyone calls white cheese as ”Greek feta cheese”! Although Turkiye is on the same parallel with Spain, Italy and Greece and also neighbor country of Greece, why do they get shocked hearing it has always snowed in Turkey? Talking about image and look, one more example, those telling Turks have thick moustaches, never mention that Middle Asian Turks and migrating Turks as Selchuks from Middle Asia had rare moustache and beard but long hair; the real ones having thick moustaches are Albanians and Persians. Also why Turkiye has especially palm trees in all squares of big cities? Palms are Turk trees or citizens are living in Sahara desert?
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