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We go from hearing how Turkey is the best country in the world, an idyllic country and culture in which to raise children; perfect in every way, to gradually hearing that, upon closer inspection, things there aren't quite so perfect in every way imagineable after all...
We start to hear that - gasp, shock horror, - Turkey actually has some faults! And, wait for it, Turkish people aren't perfect either <<clap hand over mouth>>.
These revelations send shock waves through the place but they also show that pennies do drop, albeit gradually. They say that you don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone and I think that for many people that's true. Although many women are quick to "dis" the UK and home they soon come to realise - albeit gradually - that, however hitherto unthinkable and unimagineable, Turkey also has its shortcomings.
The more people come to the gradual realisation, the more they start to contradict themseves too. For example, one minute they're proclaiming that the respect that younger people have for their elders is one of the things that draws them to Turkey, and the next they are saying that they find it hard to deal with listening to older Turkish men talking to younger Turkish men like absolute shit for no good reason. Surely they can see that in a culture where young people have it drummed into them from birth that they must respect their elders without question and irrespective of whether or not they deserve it, such socially unhealthy behaviour is an inevitable consequence? Give me a culture which teaches children that respect is earnt and that respect is a two way street any day.
We've also heard how Turkish people have so much respect for other people in general. Yet, a certain woman's own partner refuses to respect her wishes and wear a seatbelt when travelling as a passenger in her car, despite being appraised of the potential risks, whilst other people blow smoke all over her when they know she's a non-smoker. All sounds very respectful I must say.
Give me the UK any day of the week - warts and all.
We start to hear that - gasp, shock horror, - Turkey actually has some faults! And, wait for it, Turkish people aren't perfect either <<clap hand over mouth>>.
These revelations send shock waves through the place but they also show that pennies do drop, albeit gradually. They say that you don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone and I think that for many people that's true. Although many women are quick to "dis" the UK and home they soon come to realise - albeit gradually - that, however hitherto unthinkable and unimagineable, Turkey also has its shortcomings.
The more people come to the gradual realisation, the more they start to contradict themseves too. For example, one minute they're proclaiming that the respect that younger people have for their elders is one of the things that draws them to Turkey, and the next they are saying that they find it hard to deal with listening to older Turkish men talking to younger Turkish men like absolute shit for no good reason. Surely they can see that in a culture where young people have it drummed into them from birth that they must respect their elders without question and irrespective of whether or not they deserve it, such socially unhealthy behaviour is an inevitable consequence? Give me a culture which teaches children that respect is earnt and that respect is a two way street any day.
We've also heard how Turkish people have so much respect for other people in general. Yet, a certain woman's own partner refuses to respect her wishes and wear a seatbelt when travelling as a passenger in her car, despite being appraised of the potential risks, whilst other people blow smoke all over her when they know she's a non-smoker. All sounds very respectful I must say.
Give me the UK any day of the week - warts and all.
Here's one bit of what she said: 
for that man to beat a dog in the street I would of gone up to him and belted him. 
I cant understand why nobody went to help? I hate the way they treat animals out there! I know also that bar sometimes they get a puppy or kitten to bring the custom in in the season and then sling it out on the street at the end of season 
It makes me mad!
Or if you called a nasty, cheating, scumbag loverat a bar steward/horrible/cheat/ etc etc - it wouldn't cover that, either. People throw insults at each other every day in Turkey - they're not all carted off to prison!
