Wednesday, March 05, 2008

ONE IS LEGAL AND ONE IS NOT

"Why is it that tourists who visit Topkapi Palace in Istanbul can get an audio listening guide in English, French, Spanish, German or Italian, but when I publish a small tourist brochure in Armenian, as a welcoming gesture to Armenian tourists who want to visit their ancestral home, I am accused of committing a crime?"
~ Abdullah Demirbaş.


Yenişehir's Women's Day message:




The same message in Kurdish and Turkish:





They probably won't get in trouble for the first message but they probably will get in trouble for the second. Can you guess why?

Hint: Abdullah Demirbaş and Sur Municipality.

UPDATE: There's more on the Chinese posters at Bianet and another at CafeBabel.com.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

helo im a kurd in a iran
in this contury is 10 milion turk
and persian always makes jokes for their and all of the turks ashame from their ethnic
and almost all of their invis their ethnic from other
all of the iranian people recognize the turks as donkey(Eşek)
then you can use my goke for turks of the turkey and slight the turk for increse your aplomb in face by turks
you can go to persian site (joke ) and translate the jokes from farsi to kurdish or turkish

plaese send my letter for other kurds


bji kurdistan bji sehidani regai azady
nnc_mc2000@yahoo.com
mehrdad


TÜRK ve MOĞUL GERÇEĞİ
Zamanın birinde
Dağda gezen bir Moğul Hatunu
Bir Boz ite eş olmuş
Ondan Doğan TÜRK olmuş
Bozkurt kelimesi ve
Türkler bu itten gelme
TÜRK dediğin arsız olur
Eli yüzü Nursuz olur
Beşikteki hırsız olur
TÜRK dersin mırıldanır
Bey dersin yere yatar yuvarlanır
EY ALLAH' ım Sen TÜRKÜ mort eyle
Ayağını dört eyle
Ya Eşeği TÜRK eyle
Ya TÜRKÜ Eşek eyle..

Anonymous said...

helo im a kurd in a iran
in this contury is 10 milion turk
and persian always makes jokes for their and all of the turks ashame from their ethnic
and almost all of their invis their ethnic from other
all of the iranian people recognize the turks as donkey(Eşek)
then you can use my goke for turks of the turkey and slight the turk for increse your aplomb in face by turks
you can go to persian site (joke ) and translate the jokes from farsi to kurdish or turkish

plaese send my letter for other kurds


bji kurdistan bji sehidani regai azady
nnc_mc2000@yahoo.com
mehrdad


TÜRK ve MOĞUL GERÇEĞİ
Zamanın birinde
Dağda gezen bir Moğul Hatunu
Bir Boz ite eş olmuş
Ondan Doğan TÜRK olmuş
Bozkurt kelimesi ve
Türkler bu itten gelme
TÜRK dediğin arsız olur
Eli yüzü Nursuz olur
Beşikteki hırsız olur
TÜRK dersin mırıldanır
Bey dersin yere yatar yuvarlanır
EY ALLAH' ım Sen TÜRKÜ mort eyle
Ayağını dört eyle
Ya Eşeği TÜRK eyle
Ya TÜRKÜ Eşek eyle..

Anonymous said...

HAHAHA, you all of the iranian people recognize the turks as donkey (eşek)!

Mizgîn said...

Iran Kurd, did you take your poem from some bozkurtlar epic and switch words around? Or did you just make it up to sound like one of them?

Pretty funny.

From what I understand, the Iranians do regard the Turks as esek; however, Iranians are in no way different from their Turkish eseks.