Last week I didn't do anything special, however I keep on doing my activities, among which – discussion club in English language.
I'm a facilitator of the conversation, and I already held two clubs. For the second English conversation I prepared interesting questions about Gaziantep city: social life, political views, Majorities and Minorities. First of all I explained them who are minorities and majorities, and asked to characterize these communities in Gaziantep.
I can't say that the conversation was very dynamic but all of the present could share their thoughts.
Day by day, I make such conclusion that Turkish people, or people here do not like talking about politicians and politics. They even make such jokes as: where is my cell-phone to turn it off? Hope, you get the idea why they say it. Generally people here – 45-50% - workers of the manufactures and factories support R. Erdogan and his ruling party – Ak partisi. Because they believe that Erdogan will raise the economy of country and run the industry. They also like that Erdogan calls on citizens of Turkey to raise the demographical situation of a country. It clearly explains the conservatism of many families here: old families have 6-10 children, but new-builded – only 2, max.3.
The other percentage of electorate does not speak about politics, because afraid to speak. After Taksim Square many things happened here: March 27, Turkey has moved to block access to YouTube, a day after a court ordered the suspension of a ban on Twitter, which PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan backed, BBC NEWS Europe reports.
The telecoms authority (TIB) said it had taken an "administrative measure" against the site but another report suggests that talks are under way.
Some users found access blocked while others could still use the site.
Earlier, what appeared to be a leaked audio recording of Turkish officials discussing Syria appeared on YouTube. It relates to a discussion of possible military operations in Syria, which was apparently attended by Turkey's intelligence chief, its foreign minister and the deputy head of the armed forces.
Mr Erdogan, who faces important local elections on Sunday, accuses social media of spreading misinformation and suggested earlier that bans could be applied to both YouTube and Facebook.
A court in the capital, Ankara, ordered the TIB to lift its ban on Twitter, but it could be weeks before the order takes effect.
Twitter itself has filed a challenge to the access ban. It said it was concerned about a court order to suspend an account which had accused a former minister of corruption.
Others say, whenever you turn on the TV, you can watch the only face of Mr Erdogan, who appeals or calls on something, waving his hand or pointing to smth.
We discussed Syrian refugees as well, and I was right, my observing wasn't changed: most of the people have the same opinion, I was writing about it before here.
If anybody is interested to attend my club – you are more then welcome :)
That's all for now.
Stay tuned.
I'm a facilitator of the conversation, and I already held two clubs. For the second English conversation I prepared interesting questions about Gaziantep city: social life, political views, Majorities and Minorities. First of all I explained them who are minorities and majorities, and asked to characterize these communities in Gaziantep.
I can't say that the conversation was very dynamic but all of the present could share their thoughts.
Day by day, I make such conclusion that Turkish people, or people here do not like talking about politicians and politics. They even make such jokes as: where is my cell-phone to turn it off? Hope, you get the idea why they say it. Generally people here – 45-50% - workers of the manufactures and factories support R. Erdogan and his ruling party – Ak partisi. Because they believe that Erdogan will raise the economy of country and run the industry. They also like that Erdogan calls on citizens of Turkey to raise the demographical situation of a country. It clearly explains the conservatism of many families here: old families have 6-10 children, but new-builded – only 2, max.3.
The other percentage of electorate does not speak about politics, because afraid to speak. After Taksim Square many things happened here: March 27, Turkey has moved to block access to YouTube, a day after a court ordered the suspension of a ban on Twitter, which PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan backed, BBC NEWS Europe reports.
The telecoms authority (TIB) said it had taken an "administrative measure" against the site but another report suggests that talks are under way.
Some users found access blocked while others could still use the site.
Earlier, what appeared to be a leaked audio recording of Turkish officials discussing Syria appeared on YouTube. It relates to a discussion of possible military operations in Syria, which was apparently attended by Turkey's intelligence chief, its foreign minister and the deputy head of the armed forces.
Mr Erdogan, who faces important local elections on Sunday, accuses social media of spreading misinformation and suggested earlier that bans could be applied to both YouTube and Facebook.
A court in the capital, Ankara, ordered the TIB to lift its ban on Twitter, but it could be weeks before the order takes effect.
Twitter itself has filed a challenge to the access ban. It said it was concerned about a court order to suspend an account which had accused a former minister of corruption.
Others say, whenever you turn on the TV, you can watch the only face of Mr Erdogan, who appeals or calls on something, waving his hand or pointing to smth.
We discussed Syrian refugees as well, and I was right, my observing wasn't changed: most of the people have the same opinion, I was writing about it before here.
If anybody is interested to attend my club – you are more then welcome :)
That's all for now.
Stay tuned.
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