Maral Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 WHAT is up with those commercials?I swear I have seen one at least every hour or so since the end of last week!Is this how they are trying to convince the EU to let them in ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 No they are trying to get more sucker Armenians to visit their country thus the airing of them in the LA market so much. And I am sure they are very successful in convincing more idiot Armenians to visit and spend their hard earned dollars in that country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 They show them here as well, every year, beginning just a week before April 24 and then through May. A few years ago when there were posters of a few exhibits of Armenian artifacts, many of these posters were either replaced with ads for sunny holidays to Turkey or they were put on the backside (i.e. non-public side) of the board while the sunny holidays to Turkey were put on the front (public) side. Some of the boards are placed at such an angle that you have to literally walk around the back to see what's on the backside. Am I making sense? Point being, somehow, posters either disappeared or were not as easily accessible. And this is just one of many many more examples of strange "coincidences". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
America-Hye Posted May 4, 2004 Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 Any Armenian who visits Turkey is a fool. I have tip-toed around Turkey. I stayed in Athens Plaka district and visited the Greek Islands. In Rhodes, I could see Turkey. On the way to Khor Virab we could see Turkey. I have even been to Israel. The Turkish Ittihadist bastards stole what is now billions of dollars from my family. I don't even buy Turkish apricots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I don't think many Armenians would actually go to Turkey for beach holidays. You have beaches and sun everywhere, and you have good food everywhere. My dream as far as beaches are concerned is Thailand, but only after accomplishing my dream of doing the Silk Road, take a chill-out, as it were. But you can't visit a place like Hattusha, or Ani, or Troy, or the many holy Christian sites (Hagia Sophia, Ephesus, etc.), outside of Turkey any more than you can visit Persepolis outside of Iran. Simple as that. What matters is what appeals to you already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraHye Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I don't think many Armenians would actually go to Turkey for beach holidays. True, but I would love to send my grandfather to his birth place, Adana this summer. His always wanted to go there. But the problem is, he can't walk to far... So he might not be able to enjoy the trip all that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurgen Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I'll never go to Turkey on vacation, why the hell would I contribute to their economy and tourism anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I'll never go to Turkey on vacation, why the hell would I contribute to their economy and tourism anyway? Ironic, isn't it? Some will hold this "view" while back at home a lot of people won't at all mind the opening of the borders. What for? So that their goats and sheep can cross to do business and go site-seeing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I might go for a vacation in Turkey.....with Kalashnikov in my hands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 True, but I would love to send my grandfather to his birth place, Adana this summer. His always wanted to go there. But the problem is, he can't walk to far... So he might not be able to enjoy the trip all that much. There will probably be nothing there he will recognise anyway. The Adana of 50 or more years ago (or even 20 or more) is not the Adana of today. It is Turkey's 4th largest city and is mostly just one big urban sprawl. And, because of the heat and humidity, it is no place for anyone old to be in summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud EXPAT Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 Most locals here in Armenia think Turkish goods are of the greatest quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 There are so many products I would have never thought to check where they are made...and once I started to...they are made in Turkey! A lot of the stuff they sell at Costco....clothing,jjammies,cups a lot of adorable kitchen stuff ... so many things I put back that I would have bought otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 There are so many products I would have never thought to check where they are made...and once I started to...they are made in Turkey! A lot of the stuff they sell at Costco....clothing,jjammies,cups a lot of adorable kitchen stuff ... so many things I put back that I would have bought otherwise. Wow, they beat China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 OK ok ... no they don't beat China... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 OK ok ... no they don't beat China... If I was Chinese I would feel happy about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 as long as you're happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 so many things I put back that I would have bought otherwise. Why? Am I the only one who has no trouble at all buying Turkish made products? I regularly buy Turkish food here simply because it's good! As if one or more Armenians would make the difference in Turkish economy... As far as Armenia: Turkish products are often the best you can get there. This is more Armenia's problem for not manufactering better products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 Nairi,I used to think like that,and then one day it happened...I bought some clothing for my daughter,just by chance after we got it home and washed it we saw that it said Made In Turkey...now what was I to do?After all that we are teaching our children..I couldn't keep it...we took it back and told them why we no longer wanted it.(doubt the person,who was making minimum wage,cared,but he was told anyways) I was going to add to my post before that I'm sure it makes no difference that I took that item back,and that now I check before I purchase .... It's a principle issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 As long as Turkey blocades Armenian I will not buy any Turkish products (if there is a comparable alternative). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 I just said this to someone and it was brilliant thought I'ld share She asked if I really cared where something was made...I said yes,and that one either believes in the cause or not.There is no grey area on this issue. I might be with the minority...but it's a principles issue once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 6, 2004 Report Share Posted May 6, 2004 Maral jan, I am 100% in agreement with you. Not only that I make an effort to not go to any Armenian grocery store that carried Turkish products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurgen Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I might go for a vacation in Turkey.....with Kalashnikov in my hands! Amen to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
America-Hye Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 My European cousin and her husband went to Turkey to the city other than Bolise that we had come from. She was taking pictures of our former houses when she was asked by the locals what she was doing. When she told them that it was her grandparents' home the locals spit on her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghos Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 A long time ago I told my grandfather that the dried figs he was eating were from Turkey, he said: "Sometimes a fig is just a fig". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsuvan Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 My European cousin and her husband went to Turkey to the city other than Bolise that we had come from. She was taking pictures of our former houses when she was asked by the locals what she was doing. When she told them that it was her grandparents' home the locals spit on her. bastards!... i watched something similar on tv. last year some armenian priests were visiting van. in a village they wanted to enter an old church but a kurdish women who was using the church as a stable didn' t let them in. she wanted money to open the door. the turkish tour guide gave her some money but she wanted more. then gendarmes came, tell off the kurdish women, opened the door and gave the money back to the guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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