Sea is our home.
Land is our destination.
Rome is our heart, Nile is our hearth.
Our swords are our honor, our ships are our banner.
Cyprus is my pride, in Sicily high is the tide.
Olive is my tree, bound to the sea may it keep thee.
27 Mayıs 2020 Çarşamba
M-Ray's improvised poem about being a glorious Mediterraneaner
Sons of Makedon! Seafarers!
Sea is our home.
Land is our destination.
Rome is our heart, Nile is our hearth.
Our swords are our honor, our ships are our banner.
Cyprus is my pride, in Sicily high is the tide.
Olive is my tree, bound to the sea may it keep thee.
Sea is our home.
Land is our destination.
Rome is our heart, Nile is our hearth.
Our swords are our honor, our ships are our banner.
Cyprus is my pride, in Sicily high is the tide.
Olive is my tree, bound to the sea may it keep thee.
20 Mart 2020 Cuma
4 Ocak 2020 Cumartesi
Norwegian Airlines
I was going to Turkey -my home country-, from United States. As I gave my passport to get my boarding passes printed, I've been rejected. The employees said I needed a visa to go Norway. They said I can not go, over and over again. I had to convince them that there is an International visa free area in Oslo that they are supposed to know about. Finally they printed the boarding passes which costed me 20 minutes and stress.
Also I had my carry on bag measured. It was just under 10 kilograms.
As I was boarding from Oslo to Antalya, I showed my boarding pass to the personnel at the gate. As I was about to get on the walkway that leads to plane, I was herded to left side to have my bags measured. This was happening after I showed my boarding pass, right next to the walkway. There, the employees had my carry-on and backpack measured on top of each other. It ended up being 16.4 kg. The employee said I can not bring more than 10kg into the plane. As I explained him, the bag was my personal item and they allowed me to board the same way from New York. He did not listen to me and shooed me away. I was told to pay 75 Euros for the extra weight, my credit card wasnt with me and they did not accept cash. I had to give 100 dollars to a woman who agreed to pay for me, as I did not have any Euros with me nor smaller banknotes.
After being forced to do that, I went back on my way but I was herded to the same place again even though I had the billing in my hands. Finally I was allowed into the plane. It was very stressful.
I want to be reimbursed the 75 Euros because I was not informed the same way in New York. I had been dropped to the airport by a friend, I could have left my extra stuff with him.
I also expect and official apology for the inconvenience that occurred at the JFK airport in New York.
Thanks for submitting your request. Use this reference number for follow up: #191204-003862
Also I had my carry on bag measured. It was just under 10 kilograms.
As I was boarding from Oslo to Antalya, I showed my boarding pass to the personnel at the gate. As I was about to get on the walkway that leads to plane, I was herded to left side to have my bags measured. This was happening after I showed my boarding pass, right next to the walkway. There, the employees had my carry-on and backpack measured on top of each other. It ended up being 16.4 kg. The employee said I can not bring more than 10kg into the plane. As I explained him, the bag was my personal item and they allowed me to board the same way from New York. He did not listen to me and shooed me away. I was told to pay 75 Euros for the extra weight, my credit card wasnt with me and they did not accept cash. I had to give 100 dollars to a woman who agreed to pay for me, as I did not have any Euros with me nor smaller banknotes.
After being forced to do that, I went back on my way but I was herded to the same place again even though I had the billing in my hands. Finally I was allowed into the plane. It was very stressful.
I want to be reimbursed the 75 Euros because I was not informed the same way in New York. I had been dropped to the airport by a friend, I could have left my extra stuff with him.
I also expect and official apology for the inconvenience that occurred at the JFK airport in New York.
Thanks for submitting your request. Use this reference number for follow up: #191204-003862
26 Aralık 2019 Perşembe
23 Aralık 2019 Pazartesi
7 Aralık 2019 Cumartesi
Turkish People Should Stop Saying They're from Thessaloniki
People should stop saying they are from Thessaloniki. Roughly 10 million people say that... Was it the biggest city in the world or something?
Turks usually say that they are from there but the reality is far from that.
First, since it was a major city, people flocked there after the miserable and humiliating defeat against Serbs and Greeks. People thought they would be safe there, thinking the existence of European embassies would deter blood thirsty Greeks from massacring them - they weren't safe-. But when they came to eastern Thrace and Anatolia they said they came from Salonica and they kept on saying this for no reason, ignoring their original towns but weird thing is that they taught their children the same.
Second, the population had swollen even further before the Balkan wars between 1908-1912 by refugees flocking from Crete, north Bulgaria/old tuna(Danube) province, eastern Rumelia special province and Bosnia - Bosnians/Turks mildly spreading into the area from Kosovo to Salonica (about half of the bosniaks in north Macedonia and kosovo appeared in this area around this time, rest happened during the Yugoslavia era)-
Third, Thessaloniki today is a city in Greek region of Macedonia. It's not the same as in Turkey when most of the time the capital of a province is the city with the same name. Many people are actually from smaller towns such as Serres and Drama and others and the villages nearby them.
These people should say they are from Macedonia region or from the Ottoman province that used to be Salonica which had Thessaloniki as the capital city.
No, your ancestors weren't from Thessaloniki, no, they didn't share the city with Ataturk at some point, no, they didn't possibly play with Ataturk at some point. Every Turk with Balkan background cannot be originating from only one city in an era when only 10% people lived in the cities.
Turks usually say that they are from there but the reality is far from that.
First, since it was a major city, people flocked there after the miserable and humiliating defeat against Serbs and Greeks. People thought they would be safe there, thinking the existence of European embassies would deter blood thirsty Greeks from massacring them - they weren't safe-. But when they came to eastern Thrace and Anatolia they said they came from Salonica and they kept on saying this for no reason, ignoring their original towns but weird thing is that they taught their children the same.
Second, the population had swollen even further before the Balkan wars between 1908-1912 by refugees flocking from Crete, north Bulgaria/old tuna(Danube) province, eastern Rumelia special province and Bosnia - Bosnians/Turks mildly spreading into the area from Kosovo to Salonica (about half of the bosniaks in north Macedonia and kosovo appeared in this area around this time, rest happened during the Yugoslavia era)-
Third, Thessaloniki today is a city in Greek region of Macedonia. It's not the same as in Turkey when most of the time the capital of a province is the city with the same name. Many people are actually from smaller towns such as Serres and Drama and others and the villages nearby them.
These people should say they are from Macedonia region or from the Ottoman province that used to be Salonica which had Thessaloniki as the capital city.
No, your ancestors weren't from Thessaloniki, no, they didn't share the city with Ataturk at some point, no, they didn't possibly play with Ataturk at some point. Every Turk with Balkan background cannot be originating from only one city in an era when only 10% people lived in the cities.
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