All Israelis understand that most of the Turks themselves had no problem with Israel, but what frustrates us most, is that most of Turks do not notice Arduan incites them against Israel, due to Arduan's political motives.
The damage for both Israel and Turkey: Arduan spend the excellent relations that were until now between countries, and between citizens of two countries.
And he even threatened war.
I'm not the only Israeli who loves Turkey: Half a million Israelis were going every year to Turkey.
unfortunately, a lot of Turks do not realize that this conflict apparent between Turkey and Israel, came especially from the sick mind of Arduan , Arduan inciting the Turks against us, to buy him a leadership position in the Arab world, and that’s because Turkey could not accepted to the European Union. It's just a politic plot on the back of Israel – Turkey relations.
I lived in Ankara Turkey from 1972 til the late 70's. ...Wonderful place, with most hospitable people. Fantastic Food and Culture as well as very Modern large cities. There's no other place like it. ....Go if You Get the Chance...
patch044....you're a teacher? Really? wow...I wouldn't want any of my children in a classroom with a "teacher" who cannot articulate his/her thoughts without the use of profanity.Totally disgusting that ANY school would hire you anywhere.
It's Alexandropolis, I've been there, on "The Midnight Express," now renamed Dostluk Express. By the way, you idiot morons know nothing about Turkey. I teach at a Jewish high school here in Istanbul, and have been here 6 years. It is nothing like you ignorant fucks think. so get your shit correct or keep you mouths shut. By the way I am American so I know how fucking ignorant and ill informed Americans and other western nations are regarding Turkey.
5 years later of this film turks killed 100 prisoner in diyarbekir,capital city of kurdistan.torture is art in turkey...becouse turks are barbaric people
At least we don't kill our daughters for having a boyfriend. The number of forced marriages, marital and family abuse in kurdish regions is uncountable. This is all part of your culture. IF someone can be described as "barbaric", it's you.
@QEKI12 senin sevdan hiç bitmeyecek di mi ama sana yine söylüyorum hayaller hayaldir hayaller gerçek değildir.Diyarbakır diyorsun ki sen daha bunu kürtçe yazmaktan acz içerisine düşüyorsun çünkü;bütün dünya orayı Diyarbakır olarak biliyor sende bunun farkındasın ama hayallerinin tezahürü olanlara inanarak öyle yaşamaya devam ediyorsun ancak böyle çok yaşayamazsın bir gün kafana dank eder ama iş işten geçer demedi deme yol yakınken NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DİYENE de gel...
Esrar ve uyuşturucu kullanan insanların yazdığı ve oynadığı bir film hakkında bence hiç konuşmaya bile değmez. Olayın gerçek kahramanı bu kişi zamanında uyuşturucu kullanan ve satan bir şahıs. Filmin senaristi olan Oliver Stone uyuşturucu bağımlısı. Filmin başrol oyuncusu olan Brad Devis ise aşırı dozda uyuşturucu alması nedeniyle ölmüştür.
You a common criminal pal and a useless liar. Turkish prisons are no Hilton but your film was cheap, made by sick minded people to brainwash simpletons.
The only thing good in that film was the music. Criminals like you are not welcomed in Turkey. Junky go home.
Tarik Akan (turkish actor) and Yilmaz Guney (turkish actor, filmaker) were also tortured during imprisonment. They were imprisoned for political reasons.
Ironic! Billy went into some real troubles and survived to tell the story AND he's still living; while Brad Davis the actor who portrayed him in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS died in 1991. Sad!
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A DRUG DEALER TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH?THE MOVIE WAS MADE UNDER HIS AGREEMENT HE TOOK HIS SHARE AND NOW HE MADE MORE MONEY FROM THE TURKISH SECRET SERVICE TO SAY THAT THE PRISONS IN TURKEY ARE LIKE THE REGENCY HOTELS?
This is going to take more than 500 characters, my friend, and I may not be able to compose my response for a couple of days due to obligations. I hope that you don't mind if I respond by personal message?
Thank you for understanding that my issue is by no means with the Muslims but the tenets of Islam, itself, and please forgive my goading on your page: I was really enjoying the two conversations that we were having and didn't want them to become deadlocked.
get educated and stop assuming and where do you get the idea im quoting from the quran or im islamic ,why are you so tunnel visioned and blinded ,are you another dumb yank
your brain cant comprehend and make sense of my word's simple ,stop living and thinking through what you've accumilated in that narrow minded brain of yours .
stop deluding yourself there's no storytelling let alone animation !!what kinda drugs you on or arnt on !!look at the man behaviour not what he say's , everything is in the behaviour there's only honesty being portraide .
if the man was acting ,he's be an oscer award winner ,everything he say's is true ,the film is adapted for veiwing sensationalism .
if your blind its because you belive everything you see !!
stop blabbering and squeelling shyt girl ,the mere statements you make say's it all ,no perception no life experiance . who was it that said experiance is more important than knowledge .
of course when your full of your own ideas ,conditioning and opinions and knowledge you have allowed to dicatate what your interpretation of things are or should be
It wouldn't make sense to anyone, it isn't even a sentence.
It's a shame that Islam denies you opinions and knowledge. Perhaps you would be able to come up with your own interpretations about things, instead of parroting the Qu'ran like a dumb animal.
And as a religion, it has no hands, no arms and no mouth.
I'm no religious man, yet I have religious relatives, who are not even close to what your vision of a muslim is.
But well, I don't blame you.
The only muslims you see are the ones on the news, the ones who were once fed by the west to be their frontiers agains the Soviets, and later went rouge.
It's too easy to comment from the other side of the ocean on things that you're not really aware of.
I have a Doctorates in Theology and Biology that took me over 25 years of world travel to obtain. I have lived in North America, South America, The United Kingdom, Europe, South and North Africa (Where Muslims still keep slaves), Japan, Indonesia, The Pacific Island Chain, The Middle East (Kuwait and Jerusalem), India, Pakistan.
I have worked for the World Health Organization and Free Clinics established by the UN and host countries.
In my travels I have observed that the lack of development in the "Developing world" is as affected by the limited education allowed of it's Muslim patriots as it is any outside influence.
I have visited Islamic schools in North Africa where young children who have been kidnapped from their village are kept in chains until they submit to Islam. I have treated young girls who are victims of "justified" rape and brutality through marriages to men 3 and 4 times their age.
I've helped a doctor perform the disgusting task of cauterising the wound of a young man who had his hand removed, by the method of running it over with an automobile, in compliance with Sharia law for the crime of stealing 3 apples for his sister. HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD.
Until something in my years of continued study shows me that these crimes against humanity aren't based in Islamic tenet, I stand by my opinion that not only is Islam a violent cult but a dangerous one as well.
Ow, that sounds painful. But well, those countries are undeveloped, and probably, in the rural areas of which country you went to.
The cutting of hands is indeed a law of the Sharia, but it's not a law that ordinary citizens can fulfill. It needs a judge, and a country that is fully islamized, meaning, it needs goverment approved sharia courts.
With a secular goverment, and a modern education, such practices would be obsolate by now.
I absolutley agree with you. The enlightened days of Islam, when the Persians etc were all about knowledge ( both scientific, and esoteric, ie astrology ) are long gone and all that remains, are brutal thugs stuck in the dark ages. Of course there are those who are more humanist in their outlook, but they aren't the ones causing trouble and trying to take over the world.
well , sorry for your poor observation but turkey is not a islamic ruled county. there is no forcing to islam. actually , i m turkish and im an atheist :)
I'm sorry to see that you can't read well enough to glean the information from a short paragraph.
I worked for two well regarded entities, the United Nations and the World Health Organization. We were brought into these areas due to the AIDS/SIDA epidemic many times. While there we gathered information about the kidnappings, rapes and forced Islamic conversions as it was relevant to our work.
Look it up, you can find more sources of this information than just me.
On June 15, 2007. He held a press conference in Turkey and made an apology to the Turkish people for the negative images presented in the film. There must be video of this somewhere.
How ridiculous! Billy didn't represent the Turskish people badly in any way, the film centred on the prison guards at the place where he was incarcarated. If it was factual, why should he apologise? The treatment in that place was inhuman, to say the least. He owes the Turkish people nothing whatsoever. Any comments he made during his trial were made in a situation of abnormal stress and circumstances that warranted strong emotion and anger.
It's the film, not Billy Hayes which most Turks take issue with. How might you feel if one film, even a documentary, which is always interpretive on some level, became the most influential representation of your country to the outside world?
He does. The prison conditions weren't just bad for him.
It's bad for all of us. We are the ones who get beaten up in prisons, but we still do not call our own nation a nation of pigs.
Although he didn't, the movie makers certainly found much delight in calling us pigs, and saying that everything in Turkey is bad and evil.
This, is what is ridiciulous my friend. This image is still on us. We can't escape. We are currently the most hated people on earth.Can you live with that?I can.
Most hated people on Earth??? Why??? I doubt most people on earth gives two farts about Turkey....there are a lot of other countries more thought about...North Korea, Iraq, Iran....
Well, just giving you the Western perspective on Turkey: Other than your neighbours, whom I'm sure are more qualified to say why they might hate you, Turkey doesn't really come up in conversation.. Like I said, the West is more concerned with the goings on in N Korea and Iraq/Iran...
Trust me....We seldom even think about Turkey, let alone think of you as savages...
you can cheer up a little, a lot more people in europe are seeing the good side of turkey!
istanbull is one of the most celebrated cultural places in the world! not to mention the hundreds of people going to turkey on vacation the last few years.
Azmhyr, I agree with Trinity. I hardly ever hear about turkey. Don't blame America for Turkey's reputation. If a movie is enough to tarnish an entire nation's image, maybe there is a lot wrong with it in the first place.
While I seldom see direct condemnation toward Turkey, or it's people, I do see universal concerns regarding human rights violations in predominantly Islamic countries.
I don't think that this is uniquely "Turkish" situation, rather an Islamic one.
zooeyhall (1 week geleden) Toon Verbergen +3 Gemarkeerd als spam Antwoorden | Spam I was a 17 year-old foreign exchange student in Turkey in 1974-1975. When I saw this movie (Midnight Express) back in the U.S., I couldn't believe it. The Turks in it bore NO RESEMBLENCE WHATSOEVER to ANY Turkish person I met while I was there. EVERY Turk I met was kind, friendly, enthusiastic and a totally upstanding human being
great movie !!!! and Hays is actually saying here (6.53 second) "people are saying this movie isn't truth. No actually it is". So what's the matter. Do not blame Parker!
futuremambostar I am an American who recently lived in Turkey for 2 years and I just watched the movie for the first time. The movie is typical hollywood sensationalism and exaggeration that leads to lack of understanding among different cultures. My time in Turkey (Istanbul) was amazing and I would go back to live there anytime. Let's all be mature and not use the movie (which is proven by the main character to be fiction) as an excuse for xenophobic comments.
Billy Hayes hat in einem Interview Oliver Stone und den Film scharf kritisiert. Er kritisiert unter anderem, dass seine zahlreichen türkischen Freunde in dem Film nicht vorkommen. Es stößt ihn ab, dass jeder Türke in diesem Film als bösartig dargestellt werde. Auch seinen Gefängnisaufenthalt sieht er positiver, als es im Film dargestellt wird. Er würde einen Gefängnisaufenthalt in der Türkei sogar einem in den USA vorziehen
Przez ten film mam jeszcze większą niechęć do tureckich obyczajów, tamtejszej kultury. Po prostu brzydzi mnie to, a tych wszystkich brudasów bym kurwa powycinał!
He finally did return to Turkey on June 14, 2007 to attend the 2nd Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, organized by the Turkish National Police (TNP) and the Turkish Institute for Police Studies (TIPS), to amend the negative implications of his book. He held a press conference on the 15th of June and made an apology to the Turkish people.
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
This movie has done more to discredit Turkey than all of the Greeks and Armenians combined. When I told my older friends that I planned to go to Turkey, they said: "Don't get arrested there, you'll go to prison forever." They did everything to try to discourage me from going because of this stupid movie.
Billy Hayes hat in einem Interview Oliver Stone und den Film scharf kritisiert. Er kritisiert unter anderem, dass seine zahlreichen türkischen Freunde in dem Film nicht vorkommen. Es stößt ihn ab, dass jeder Türke in diesem Film als bösartig dargestellt werde. Auch seinen Gefängnisaufenthalt sieht er positiver, als es im Film dargestellt wird. Er würde einen Gefängnisaufenthalt in der Türkei sogar einem in den USA vorziehen
işte mücadele boyle olmalı.. Dostum seni ve dozk34 ne kadar taktir etsem azdır. almanca ve ingilizce yorumlar yazmışsın.. Lafa geldimmi Çağdaş.. Modern.. Laik.. Vatan sever oluyoruz ya ! Senin, Almanca ve İngilizce yorum yapman ve mücadele etmen gerkçekten benim taktirimi kazandı. Bu sayfaların linklerini bir sürü insana gönderdim inan bana. Çağdaş insan boyle olmalı.. Mitinglerde bayrak sallamakla olmuyor ne yazıkki. Dostum beni bağışla, içimden boyle geldi.
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
I cannot believe how much the book differs from the film! I have just read the book for the first time and was stunned that 2 out of the 3 most powerful scenes in the film were completely fictitious. I appreciate that writers/directors need artistic licence to make the film more exciting, but to distort the main scenes so blatantly is nothing short of scandalous.
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
I also read the book and saw the movie at a younger age and it has made a lasting impression in my life as well. I feel bad that he had to go through that terrible ordeal but I betcha he will never try to smuggle drugs again! Billy Hayes, I hope your life is a happy one now and may you and yours be prosperous!
well done ali nur! it is a brilliant idea to interview billy in Cannes. thanks for your effort since this makes a record in history. Though i must say i was a little surprised to see that you did not remember the name of the border town! Edirne.
The film, "Midnight Express" made a lasting impact on me the first time I ever saw it. I was about 12 at the time (I'm 41 now). I have seen the movie over the years probably 3 or 4 times and just watched the 30th Anniversary DVD the other day. Wow! It is still one of the most powerful movies of all time. The music from the movie is still haunting me as I write this. I did read the book, which is Billy Hayes' actual account of his experience, maybe 20 years ago. I'm going to read it again.
All Israelis understand that most of the Turks themselves had no problem with Israel, but what frustrates us most, is that most of Turks do not notice Arduan incites them against Israel, due to Arduan's political motives.
Israeli4444 4 months ago
The damage for both Israel and Turkey: Arduan spend the excellent relations that were until now between countries, and between citizens of two countries.
And he even threatened war.
I'm not the only Israeli who loves Turkey: Half a million Israelis were going every year to Turkey.
Israeli4444 4 months ago
unfortunately, a lot of Turks do not realize that this conflict apparent between Turkey and Israel, came especially from the sick mind of Arduan , Arduan inciting the Turks against us, to buy him a leadership position in the Arab world, and that’s because Turkey could not accepted to the European Union. It's just a politic plot on the back of Israel – Turkey relations.
Israeli4444 4 months ago
I love Turkey, perhaps more than any other country in the world,
I love the combination of East and West, the amazing landscapes
, I love the nice people, the culture, the music (Tatlisess, ismail yk, and more ...), the food, and especially the Turkish language.
But as an Israeli, I can no longer go there, because of incitement and provocation of Arduan against Israel.
Israeli4444 4 months ago
edirne lan amk canakkale dio ya :s
PitBuLL35ksk 4 months ago 2
I lived in Ankara Turkey from 1972 til the late 70's. ...Wonderful place, with most hospitable people. Fantastic Food and Culture as well as very Modern large cities. There's no other place like it. ....Go if You Get the Chance...
watcherman65 5 months ago 3
let me just say fucking dumb terrorists made all drug smugling difficult. FUCK YOU PLO FUCKING TOWELHEADS
cryostation 5 months ago
@cryostation Lol 'one type of criminal is making other criminals' jobs harder'. Moron.
ianman6 2 months ago
the movie is bullsghit. the documentary, on locked up abroad is much better. turkey is a great country
cryostation 5 months ago
A nice quiet setting for an interview....
yakidk89 5 months ago
patch044....you're a teacher? Really? wow...I wouldn't want any of my children in a classroom with a "teacher" who cannot articulate his/her thoughts without the use of profanity.Totally disgusting that ANY school would hire you anywhere.
jessica55880 6 months ago
It's Alexandropolis, I've been there, on "The Midnight Express," now renamed Dostluk Express. By the way, you idiot morons know nothing about Turkey. I teach at a Jewish high school here in Istanbul, and have been here 6 years. It is nothing like you ignorant fucks think. so get your shit correct or keep you mouths shut. By the way I am American so I know how fucking ignorant and ill informed Americans and other western nations are regarding Turkey.
patch044 8 months ago 2
Who is the other Turkish guy ? He dont know EDIRNE !! Also Billy said in old name "Adrianapolis"..What a poor knowladge about his country !!
SilvioGioseppe 10 months ago
canankkale ne zamandan beri yunanistan sinirinda arkadas
flyingpostaldude 10 months ago
how the hell can he forget the city in which he crossed the border at? haha
MrVanDep 10 months ago
filmi izlemek lazim
gurbetcicocugu66 11 months ago
FUCK ALL CONSERVATIVE TURKS AND MUSLIMS, YOU ARE THE SCUM AND THE EVIL OF THIS EARTH!!
Jorsalfar 11 months ago
5 years later of this film turks killed 100 prisoner in diyarbekir,capital city of kurdistan.torture is art in turkey...becouse turks are barbaric people
QEKI12 1 year ago
@QEKI12
Less barbaric than kurds could ever be.
At least we don't kill our daughters for having a boyfriend. The number of forced marriages, marital and family abuse in kurdish regions is uncountable. This is all part of your culture. IF someone can be described as "barbaric", it's you.
Still you refuse to change.
azmhyr 1 year ago
@QEKI12 senin sevdan hiç bitmeyecek di mi ama sana yine söylüyorum hayaller hayaldir hayaller gerçek değildir.Diyarbakır diyorsun ki sen daha bunu kürtçe yazmaktan acz içerisine düşüyorsun çünkü;bütün dünya orayı Diyarbakır olarak biliyor sende bunun farkındasın ama hayallerinin tezahürü olanlara inanarak öyle yaşamaya devam ediyorsun ancak böyle çok yaşayamazsın bir gün kafana dank eder ama iş işten geçer demedi deme yol yakınken NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DİYENE de gel...
gercekayvaz 1 year ago
Esrar ve uyuşturucu kullanan insanların yazdığı ve oynadığı bir film hakkında bence hiç konuşmaya bile değmez. Olayın gerçek kahramanı bu kişi zamanında uyuşturucu kullanan ve satan bir şahıs. Filmin senaristi olan Oliver Stone uyuşturucu bağımlısı. Filmin başrol oyuncusu olan Brad Devis ise aşırı dozda uyuşturucu alması nedeniyle ölmüştür.
Fsmturks 1 year ago
You a common criminal pal and a useless liar. Turkish prisons are no Hilton but your film was cheap, made by sick minded people to brainwash simpletons.
The only thing good in that film was the music. Criminals like you are not welcomed in Turkey. Junky go home.
tozan1 1 year ago
Nasıl bir sinema eleştirmenisin hocam, adam göstere göstere Edirne'yi tarif ediyor..bilmiyorsun!
yytuncer 1 year ago
Of course the Jew Stone and the Jew Parker made a crappy movie full of their queerjew fantasies.
seikyoukainoakira 1 year ago
What a fool he is, appologising to the Turks. I'd never do that.
Jorsalfar 1 year ago
@Jorsalfar
sure , just like i fucked your mom , and i 'd never about mention about it.
spysspy 11 months ago
@spysspy Poor, really poor and cheap answer.
Jorsalfar 11 months ago
Tarik Akan (turkish actor) and Yilmaz Guney (turkish actor, filmaker) were also tortured during imprisonment. They were imprisoned for political reasons.
DJCENK0 1 year ago
Ironic! Billy went into some real troubles and survived to tell the story AND he's still living; while Brad Davis the actor who portrayed him in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS died in 1991. Sad!
SuperRod88 1 year ago
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A DRUG DEALER TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH?THE MOVIE WAS MADE UNDER HIS AGREEMENT HE TOOK HIS SHARE AND NOW HE MADE MORE MONEY FROM THE TURKISH SECRET SERVICE TO SAY THAT THE PRISONS IN TURKEY ARE LIKE THE REGENCY HOTELS?
TELAMONIOSAJAX 1 year ago
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Fuck Turkey and fuck the Turks
tripleleo 1 year ago
this civilisation as we know it will fall anyway..
what goes up most come down..(Bob Marley)
TamerDincable 1 year ago
the impact of his words doesn't come near to the impact of the movie
666scav 1 year ago
I also stand by my opinion that muslims can modernize and live their religion on the level of the individual.
azmhyr 1 year ago
@azmhyr
This is going to take more than 500 characters, my friend, and I may not be able to compose my response for a couple of days due to obligations. I hope that you don't mind if I respond by personal message?
Thank you for understanding that my issue is by no means with the Muslims but the tenets of Islam, itself, and please forgive my goading on your page: I was really enjoying the two conversations that we were having and didn't want them to become deadlocked.
thegirl44 1 year ago
get educated and stop assuming and where do you get the idea im quoting from the quran or im islamic ,why are you so tunnel visioned and blinded ,are you another dumb yank
your brain cant comprehend and make sense of my word's simple ,stop living and thinking through what you've accumilated in that narrow minded brain of yours .
you must be oriental
halil65 1 year ago
The dumbest is capable of inflicting the deepest wounds and the smartest can voice the dumbest opinions
halil65 1 year ago
those of you that think turks are as shown in the movie midnight experss ,are pretty blind and stupid to believe what you see
how many turkish actors were there in lead roles !!almost none
all the actor's were either arme ians greeks ,no turks and do you think turkey would let a film putting them down the way the movie does be aloud !!!
check out for yourself ,and the filming locations wer'nt turkish either some scenes contained part of turkey but nothing relevant .
the films bulllshit
halil65 1 year ago
This is one of the best interviews on this site. Mr. Hayes is a fantastic, animated storyteller.
Infinitely more entertaining getting the story from Billy, himself, than suffering through Oliver Stone's movie
thegirl44 1 year ago
stop deluding yourself there's no storytelling let alone animation !!what kinda drugs you on or arnt on !!look at the man behaviour not what he say's , everything is in the behaviour there's only honesty being portraide .
if the man was acting ,he's be an oscer award winner ,everything he say's is true ,the film is adapted for veiwing sensationalism .
if your blind its because you belive everything you see !!
halil65 1 year ago
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thegirl44 1 year ago
Ah, I see the problem. Just another Muslim who hasn't the education to glean a small amount of information from a short paragraph.
It's a shame how ignorant Islam keeps it's followers.
thegirl44 1 year ago
stop blabbering and squeelling shyt girl ,the mere statements you make say's it all ,no perception no life experiance . who was it that said experiance is more important than knowledge .
you cant help it i guess
halil65 1 year ago
@halil65
At least I can express myself coherently using proper spelling and grammar.
thegirl44 1 year ago
so what dont be blind , lack perception ,sensitivity and stop assuming .
the more intelligent the less you see .
halil65 1 year ago
@halil65
You last sentence makes absolutely no sense.
"the more intelligent the less you see"?
thegirl44 1 year ago
of course it does'nt to you .
of course when your full of your own ideas ,conditioning and opinions and knowledge you have allowed to dicatate what your interpretation of things are or should be
halil65 1 year ago
@halil65
It wouldn't make sense to anyone, it isn't even a sentence.
It's a shame that Islam denies you opinions and knowledge. Perhaps you would be able to come up with your own interpretations about things, instead of parroting the Qu'ran like a dumb animal.
thegirl44 1 year ago
Well, I think you have little to no knowledge about Turkey, nor the Turkish people.
We don't parrot the Qur'an like a "dumb animal". We have secular education.
Even Saudi Arabia has secular education.
I just though that you should know.
azmhyr 1 year ago
Islam is a religion.
And as a religion, it has no hands, no arms and no mouth.
I'm no religious man, yet I have religious relatives, who are not even close to what your vision of a muslim is.
But well, I don't blame you.
The only muslims you see are the ones on the news, the ones who were once fed by the west to be their frontiers agains the Soviets, and later went rouge.
It's too easy to comment from the other side of the ocean on things that you're not really aware of.
azmhyr 1 year ago
@azmhyr
I have a Doctorates in Theology and Biology that took me over 25 years of world travel to obtain. I have lived in North America, South America, The United Kingdom, Europe, South and North Africa (Where Muslims still keep slaves), Japan, Indonesia, The Pacific Island Chain, The Middle East (Kuwait and Jerusalem), India, Pakistan.
I have worked for the World Health Organization and Free Clinics established by the UN and host countries.
You assumptions are ignorant, to say the least.
thegirl44 1 year ago
In my travels I have observed that the lack of development in the "Developing world" is as affected by the limited education allowed of it's Muslim patriots as it is any outside influence.
I have visited Islamic schools in North Africa where young children who have been kidnapped from their village are kept in chains until they submit to Islam. I have treated young girls who are victims of "justified" rape and brutality through marriages to men 3 and 4 times their age.
thegirl44 1 year ago
I've helped a doctor perform the disgusting task of cauterising the wound of a young man who had his hand removed, by the method of running it over with an automobile, in compliance with Sharia law for the crime of stealing 3 apples for his sister. HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD.
Until something in my years of continued study shows me that these crimes against humanity aren't based in Islamic tenet, I stand by my opinion that not only is Islam a violent cult but a dangerous one as well.
thegirl44 1 year ago
@thegirl44
Ow, that sounds painful. But well, those countries are undeveloped, and probably, in the rural areas of which country you went to.
The cutting of hands is indeed a law of the Sharia, but it's not a law that ordinary citizens can fulfill. It needs a judge, and a country that is fully islamized, meaning, it needs goverment approved sharia courts.
With a secular goverment, and a modern education, such practices would be obsolate by now.
azmhyr 1 year ago
@azmhyr look at the percentage of thefts in saudi arabia and than in the states.
do you see the difference?
apart from this, the cutting of hands is a really rare incident...
you are talking like all this ignorant fags who dont know what they are talking...
Samsun55 1 year ago
@thegirl44
I absolutley agree with you. The enlightened days of Islam, when the Persians etc were all about knowledge ( both scientific, and esoteric, ie astrology ) are long gone and all that remains, are brutal thugs stuck in the dark ages. Of course there are those who are more humanist in their outlook, but they aren't the ones causing trouble and trying to take over the world.
tripleleo 1 year ago
@thegirl44
well , sorry for your poor observation but turkey is not a islamic ruled county. there is no forcing to islam. actually , i m turkish and im an atheist :)
spysspy 11 months ago
@spysspy
Nowhere in my comments do I imply that Turkey is an Islamic ruled country.
thegirl44 11 months ago
@thegirl44 If they are kidnappin' the children, how they accept you to this school even for visit ?? Sorry, but its smelling lie
SilvioGioseppe 10 months ago
@SilvioGioseppe
I'm sorry to see that you can't read well enough to glean the information from a short paragraph.
I worked for two well regarded entities, the United Nations and the World Health Organization. We were brought into these areas due to the AIDS/SIDA epidemic many times. While there we gathered information about the kidnappings, rapes and forced Islamic conversions as it was relevant to our work.
Look it up, you can find more sources of this information than just me.
thegirl44 9 months ago
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thegirl44 1 year ago
@thegirl44
Oh, now I'm talking with academia, ain't I?
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jasc1453 2 years ago
Sad story but happy end.
Bunchpoland 2 years ago
fck u
wolverinesahin 2 years ago
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All filthy turks should die and be fed to dogs.
RichoRosai 2 years ago
You should die fucking racist...
Turken77 2 years ago
Gee, some 'people' are quick to sentence others to death...some might call it primitive?? Idiot!
VVExtra 2 years ago
On June 15, 2007. He held a press conference in Turkey and made an apology to the Turkish people for the negative images presented in the film. There must be video of this somewhere.
tobie5000 2 years ago
How ridiculous! Billy didn't represent the Turskish people badly in any way, the film centred on the prison guards at the place where he was incarcarated. If it was factual, why should he apologise? The treatment in that place was inhuman, to say the least. He owes the Turkish people nothing whatsoever. Any comments he made during his trial were made in a situation of abnormal stress and circumstances that warranted strong emotion and anger.
VVExtra 2 years ago
It's the film, not Billy Hayes which most Turks take issue with. How might you feel if one film, even a documentary, which is always interpretive on some level, became the most influential representation of your country to the outside world?
thewhitebarrywhite 2 years ago 2
He does.
He does. The prison conditions weren't just bad for him.
It's bad for all of us. We are the ones who get beaten up in prisons, but we still do not call our own nation a nation of pigs.
Although he didn't, the movie makers certainly found much delight in calling us pigs, and saying that everything in Turkey is bad and evil.
This, is what is ridiciulous my friend. This image is still on us. We can't escape. We are currently the most hated people on earth.Can you live with that?I can.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Most hated people on Earth??? Why??? I doubt most people on earth gives two farts about Turkey....there are a lot of other countries more thought about...North Korea, Iraq, Iran....
trinitymike 2 years ago
Because you don't know shit.
There is no reason for people to hate Iraq, or Iran for that matter. Or even North Korea, except for the Koreans.
But Turks, the Turks were the ones who made direct contact with Europeans, fought them. Our neighbors hate us. All of them, none spared.
Ask anyone. How doth ye know the Turks?
"Barbaric, inhuman,savages that want to erase everything in their path".
That's only few of the stuff that is spread in the west about us.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Well, just giving you the Western perspective on Turkey: Other than your neighbours, whom I'm sure are more qualified to say why they might hate you, Turkey doesn't really come up in conversation.. Like I said, the West is more concerned with the goings on in N Korea and Iraq/Iran...
Trust me....We seldom even think about Turkey, let alone think of you as savages...
trinitymike 2 years ago
Well, I guess you live in America, right?
That's why you never do.
On the other hand in Europe, this shit is big.
Iran...Who needs to hate Iran? Iran is just plain intimidating.
N.Korea? Who cares.
Iraq? It didn't even do anything to you.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Yeah, we seldom do....And I'm not dealing with whether or not it's right to hate Iran and N Korea, just that we do...
And N Korea's propably the most unstable regime there is these days...Kim's a real nutbar.
trinitymike 2 years ago
Kim's a pretty cool guy actually.
I don't think he has the guts to launch a missile anywhere.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Cool guy? Read up on how he's starved his nation to pay for his military...Is that considered 'cool' in Turkey???
trinitymike 2 years ago
I just mean him.
He seems so lovable.
Like all dictators.
For example, Stalin, while he was propably the most evil psychopath in history, had the sexiest moustache amongst dictators.
azmhyr 2 years ago
you can cheer up a little, a lot more people in europe are seeing the good side of turkey!
istanbull is one of the most celebrated cultural places in the world! not to mention the hundreds of people going to turkey on vacation the last few years.
we know you guys are a modern country!
garfreeek 2 years ago
Well, thanks...
Although, we are modern, our country is a troubled one.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Azmhyr, I agree with Trinity. I hardly ever hear about turkey. Don't blame America for Turkey's reputation. If a movie is enough to tarnish an entire nation's image, maybe there is a lot wrong with it in the first place.
PocketDrummer 2 years ago 3
I do not.
But I'm sure it contributes to it.
Although, we are propably the worst representatives of ourselves abroad.
If we'd only send our more educated members of society, people would think different perhaps.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Good point.
Hell, we had BUSH for entirely too long. He was such a moron.... no wonder people think Americans are idiots.
PocketDrummer 2 years ago 3
Well, it's not because of Bush.
I think that Bush had the best intentions doing whatever he did.
Although people like Paris Hilton really do bring up negative impressions about Americans.
azmhyr 2 years ago
Her too. UGH, how do those people get popular enough to become known around the world.....
PocketDrummer 2 years ago
She's rich.
azmhyr 2 years ago
@azmhyr
PocketDrummer has a pretty fair point.
While I seldom see direct condemnation toward Turkey, or it's people, I do see universal concerns regarding human rights violations in predominantly Islamic countries.
I don't think that this is uniquely "Turkish" situation, rather an Islamic one.
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Who can describe the fictional film "Midnight Express" better than the legendary Greek-American film maker Elia Kazan?
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yigithan32 2 years ago
zooeyhall (1 week geleden) Toon Verbergen +3 Gemarkeerd als spam Antwoorden | Spam I was a 17 year-old foreign exchange student in Turkey in 1974-1975. When I saw this movie (Midnight Express) back in the U.S., I couldn't believe it. The Turks in it bore NO RESEMBLENCE WHATSOEVER to ANY Turkish person I met while I was there. EVERY Turk I met was kind, friendly, enthusiastic and a totally upstanding human being
yigithan32 2 years ago 3
great movie !!!! and Hays is actually saying here (6.53 second) "people are saying this movie isn't truth. No actually it is". So what's the matter. Do not blame Parker!
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wavinglight 2 years ago
This video tells the truth about the movie midnight express!!!
yalnizefe999 2 years ago
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nobody like turkic people..siktir turkler eiste oloi tsoglania!
bluepassionGR 2 years ago
Is the book more true to life than the movie?
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dozk34 2 years ago
propaganda. of course not all turks are bad, but little billy doesent understand the interviewer work for the turk state
kamakioriginale 2 years ago
futuremambostar I am an American who recently lived in Turkey for 2 years and I just watched the movie for the first time. The movie is typical hollywood sensationalism and exaggeration that leads to lack of understanding among different cultures. My time in Turkey (Istanbul) was amazing and I would go back to live there anytime. Let's all be mature and not use the movie (which is proven by the main character to be fiction) as an excuse for xenophobic comments.
yigithan32 3 years ago
Billy Hayes hat in einem Interview Oliver Stone und den Film scharf kritisiert. Er kritisiert unter anderem, dass seine zahlreichen türkischen Freunde in dem Film nicht vorkommen. Es stößt ihn ab, dass jeder Türke in diesem Film als bösartig dargestellt werde. Auch seinen Gefängnisaufenthalt sieht er positiver, als es im Film dargestellt wird. Er würde einen Gefängnisaufenthalt in der Türkei sogar einem in den USA vorziehen
yigithan32 3 years ago
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dozk34 3 years ago 3
Przez ten film mam jeszcze większą niechęć do tureckich obyczajów, tamtejszej kultury. Po prostu brzydzi mnie to, a tych wszystkich brudasów bym kurwa powycinał!
hbs369 3 years ago
From Wikipedia:
He finally did return to Turkey on June 14, 2007 to attend the 2nd Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, organized by the Turkish National Police (TNP) and the Turkish Institute for Police Studies (TIPS), to amend the negative implications of his book. He held a press conference on the 15th of June and made an apology to the Turkish people.
yigithan32 3 years ago
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
yigithan32 3 years ago
This movie has done more to discredit Turkey than all of the Greeks and Armenians combined. When I told my older friends that I planned to go to Turkey, they said: "Don't get arrested there, you'll go to prison forever." They did everything to try to discourage me from going because of this stupid movie.
solwolfpunk 3 years ago 4
BILLY yeni yilda seni affetsekmi acaba?
biz kimleri afetmedikki dadi sanada iyi seneler
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Billy Hayes hat in einem Interview Oliver Stone und den Film scharf kritisiert. Er kritisiert unter anderem, dass seine zahlreichen türkischen Freunde in dem Film nicht vorkommen. Es stößt ihn ab, dass jeder Türke in diesem Film als bösartig dargestellt werde. Auch seinen Gefängnisaufenthalt sieht er positiver, als es im Film dargestellt wird. Er würde einen Gefängnisaufenthalt in der Türkei sogar einem in den USA vorziehen
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enust 3 years ago 5
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
yigithan32 3 years ago
I cannot believe how much the book differs from the film! I have just read the book for the first time and was stunned that 2 out of the 3 most powerful scenes in the film were completely fictitious. I appreciate that writers/directors need artistic licence to make the film more exciting, but to distort the main scenes so blatantly is nothing short of scandalous.
40acresandafool 3 years ago 2
yigithan32 ikimiz nöbetci askerolduk biz :)
dozk34 3 years ago 2
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yigithan32 3 years ago
well done ali nur! it is a brilliant idea to interview billy in Cannes. thanks for your effort since this makes a record in history
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nevin55 3 years ago
Prisons are the same in every country, and as Billy Hayes says, Turkish prison is even better than Americans with the amount of freedom. Its all call, no psychological mind games or nothing. "much more free.."
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Midnight Express is not only racist, it's anti-human
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dozk34 3 years ago 2
I also read the book and saw the movie at a younger age and it has made a lasting impression in my life as well. I feel bad that he had to go through that terrible ordeal but I betcha he will never try to smuggle drugs again! Billy Hayes, I hope your life is a happy one now and may you and yours be prosperous!
-From a true fan...
cykovisuals 3 years ago
Midnight Express is not only racist, it's anti-human
yigithan32 3 years ago
well done ali nur! it is a brilliant idea to interview billy in Cannes. thanks for your effort since this makes a record in history. Though i must say i was a little surprised to see that you did not remember the name of the border town! Edirne.
TURKUAZZY 3 years ago 2
ne mutlu TÜRKÜM diyene!
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dozk34 3 years ago
The film, "Midnight Express" made a lasting impact on me the first time I ever saw it. I was about 12 at the time (I'm 41 now). I have seen the movie over the years probably 3 or 4 times and just watched the 30th Anniversary DVD the other day. Wow! It is still one of the most powerful movies of all time. The music from the movie is still haunting me as I write this. I did read the book, which is Billy Hayes' actual account of his experience, maybe 20 years ago. I'm going to read it again.
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ne mutlu TÜRKÜM diyene!
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