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Turkey is leaning towards the "American way"? I think that is what you want to hear. Turkish culture has nothing to do with the American culture. We have our own Anatolian culture and if we speak of a tendency, then it is the European one. Kind Regards, --Eraygencay 14:52, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
"Every region has their own set of "Folklore" which basicaly is a regional dance." That is an awful sentence and I have no idea how to correct it. In fact the entire article is rubbish, and it's on a major topic. I'm going to list this as needing attention, once I've done a bit of fiddling with it --VivaEmilyDavies 18:32, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I removed SpantLa's signature from the article. No idea why they're there. I'll see if I can get around to working on the page. --Kross 13:06, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Took a quick run at some of the more awkward phrases, but I know very little about Turkey, so I didn't dare mess with it much. It does seem unbalanced somehow: is it *meant* to be touristy? I'm new at this, hope I didn't mess anything up.
I more or less redid the article. I was going to wait till I had completely fleshed it out, but I hit a roadblock, so here it is. --Kross 22:38, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
"The nation was modernized primarily by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as he successfully transformed a religion-driven former Ottoman Empire into a modern nation-state with a very strong separation of state and religion."
What is this poltical opinion doing in the introduction of "Cuture in Turkey"? --Yodakii 17:55, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
"Because it explains why Turkey is, while being a Muslim nation, for the most part a Western nation. Ataturk instigated Western reforms, and this greatly influenced the Culture of Turkey" Serapindal 18:55, October 10th 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nazmi Ziya Guran
There is a painting in the article attributed to this artist, but no info about that on the image page. What is the proof that it is by Guran. If this is not forthcoming, it will have to be deleted. Tyrenius 17:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kurds
It's unbealivable how there in't even a word about the Kurdish role in the modern Turkish culture. It's absolutely preposterous; because there isn't many historical text to back, this role Kurds play, in modern Turkish culture which might be for several reasons it doesn't mean we should mention it. I am sure there is many sources to back this (online or not) and this immediately needs to take its part in the article. I am inviting users to do some research on Kurds who have a big role in the modern Turkish culture; cuisine, music, literature and other sectors. Ozgur Gerilla 15:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
If the role of the Kurds in Turkish culture is so big, then why don't you add a few examples yourself? --386-DX 16:21, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Calligraphy
The Ottomans, and subsequently the Turks, even today, were and are the greatest masters of Calligraphy (in arabic alphabet), considered the "Second most important Art of the Empire after Architecture". What is called "Arabic" Calligraphy, took actual shape during the Ottoman Empire in 6 principal plus 3 secondary (actually foreign, ie:persian) styles, and to become a Master would take (and still takes) between 6 or 15 years of practice under apprenticeship. Turkey is litterally filled with examples of Calligraphic Masterpieces, unique in their domain. I invite the Turkish users and the Calligraphically knowledgeable users of Wikipedia to add somaenice examples of Calligraphy as well as traditional and modern Calligraphers to this page. (I would lovingly do it but I am SOOO bad in Wikipedia)
Cheers, --Eae1983 23:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Moving this from Namus
I moved the following from the Namus article. We might try and integrate it to this article. Also we need sources, this article does not have any.
- Other categories of honor in Islamic Turkish culture[1][2]
- Onur basically corresponds to European general-purpose notion of honor
- Prestij, a borrowing for prestige
- Şeref, an honor associated with man's and man's male kin glory resulted from their accomplishments, as in "Medal of Honor", Şeref Madalyası (notice the gender-orientedness, in a sense complementary to namus)
- Saygi, an honor which considers worth of the person or homage
- Sevgi, an honor associated with love (one honors another person by loving him/her); usually translated indiscriminately as "love" (cf. with Greek words for love)
- Haysiyet the ability to feel lack of honor, itself a category of honor
- Gurur, an honorable pride
- Izzet, an honor of generosity
