Midnight Express Gerçeği-1 Alinur Velidedeoğlu

Well, thanks...
Although, we are modern, our country is a troubled one.

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!

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.

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....

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.

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...

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.

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.

Kim's a pretty cool guy actually.
I don't think he has the guts to launch a missile anywhere.

Cool guy? Read up on how he's starved his nation to pay for his military...Is that considered 'cool' in Turkey???