Does anyone know what is going on in Turkey? What is this stampede for?

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Darth-Vectivus@reddit

This is Erdoğan’s Turkey. People are so impoverished that any promise of free food causes stampedes. We are back in the 90s again.

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Immediate-Ad-7169@reddit

This festival has been organized for more than 400 years. it has nothing to do with Erdoğan.

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Nah man, these people are just retarded. Its not even real food they are giving. If it was a line for bread or soup I would understand but this is just so stupid. They do this shit with baklava too. Just tell Turkish people something is free, there is going to be a stempede for sure.

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rilinq@reddit

There are plenty things wrong with erdogan but this ain’t it.

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PeriodontosisSam@reddit

It was always the same. Thats nothing new

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SageGoes@reddit

We had same jokes in Russia 10 years ago. It's not funny anymore 😔

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Serhide@reddit

Hello neighbour. What’s your opinion on turkey for the last years ? What do you think about erdogan

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4fundamentalforces_@reddit

Good day mr officer

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Serhide@reddit

Hello comsu

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SnyggTjej69@reddit

Milk truck just arrive

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ArthurScherbius@reddit

I just wanna know, is that baba ok?

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Substratas@reddit (OP)

Baba?!

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ArthurScherbius@reddit

I never thought id have to translate the word “baba” on a balkan sub :(

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Mestintrela@reddit

It means father in greek.

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Friendly_Scholar_782@reddit

But you say it like, "Babas", right?

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baxulax@reddit

Yeah, but we have «μπάμπω» (babo) (old hag) too

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Mestintrela@reddit

Is this some region dialect? Because we certainly dont have this word where I come from. If you said it to me I wouldnt know what it meant.

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Several_Score_4278@reddit

I thought he was Semitic, but it might even be Chinese

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baxulax@reddit

It surely is regional. I think maybe Peloponnes or Thessaly? I am from Macedonia and we hadn’t it as well, but I have heard it many times in my life. It’s widespread. How did you not know it? Μπαμπόγρια; don’t ring a bell?

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Mestintrela@reddit

I know μπαμπόγρια though it is extremely rare. The others really, wouldnt know what they meant if I heard them.

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baxulax@reddit

It’s the same word

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Capable_Studio_6631@reddit

In Bulgarian Babo is used to address your own grandma or another closely related old woman who wouldn't otherwise take offense to it.

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baxulax@reddit

I think it was the same originally in Greek as well. But it shifted a little over the centuries

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Barbak86@reddit

In Albanian as well.

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playforreal@reddit

Albabian :D Sorry, couldn't resist :P

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UnknownOrigin1152@reddit

It means father in Turkish too

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Mysterious_Might3977@reddit

gif

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P-l-Staker@reddit

Stinking Mongol thieves taking our words!

/s

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Substratas@reddit (OP)

Same in Albanian. That’s why I’m confused.

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Mysterious_Pack3598@reddit

It's kinda fun how in Romanian babă is old woman but 'babacu' is a somewhat regional/slangy way of saying father

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Professional-Fee-488@reddit

It's the same in Chinese, 爸爸, coincidentally......?

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CockamouseGoesWee@reddit

Well yeah but this is a Turkish video so it's obviously not a baba it's a baba

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AEtherLord_@reddit

Bless you same meaning in Turkish. Now should we argue who started using it first :-p?

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NoEatBatman@reddit

True, heck even the Japanese get it

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Educational_Term_463@reddit

Baba is you

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GoodMoney888@reddit

Old woman

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Putrid_Speed_5138@reddit

Now this may sound strange, but this video shows apparently pious Muslim women and 60+ bald men crushing each other for free candy that is spicy, allegedly aphrodisiac, and distributed in what can be described as a full-contact gangbang of elbows and handbags in a performative religious orgy of pensioner reflexes.

The anthropological brilliance of watching basic human survival instincts activate under a shower of airborne herbal libido-boosters is unmatched. One may still question their effectiveness, however, as Turkey continues hurtling toward a demographic crisis as fertility rates keep plummeting.

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chrstianelson@reddit

The comments in the original post are actually damn funny but Reddit auto-translate is absolutely clueless.

One comment says "if they see a free dick, they would jump on it" which Reddit's AI translates as "if they see an easy target, they will jump on it".

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Few-Interview-1996@reddit

Free gift of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesir_macunu .

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gounatos@reddit

Like a kilo or is it insanely expensive?

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Several_Score_4278@reddit

They’re throwing things at people. What do they expect to happen?

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Few-Interview-1996@reddit

I don't think they would each be getting a kilo of the thrown sweets (see the photo). It's not insanely expensive, just absolutely, ridiculously tedious and also not easy to make.

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gounatos@reddit

Ah thanks for the photo, google also had some jars when googling the name and I couldn't understand what they were stampeding for. I was expecting somekind of loqum and it looks like toffee but who am I to judge.

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Commercial_Law_1689@reddit

Well... it is certainly not toffee lol. It's a paste made from 41 spices and herbs mixed with honey, sugar, gum mastic and citrus peel. It is densely packed with calories.

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Emotional-Account182@reddit

its expensive

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Bulgaria_lover-1@reddit

I don't know i am a Bulgarian. I hate türkiye because of the Ottoman empire.Also we were founded as a country in 681Ad

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Gullible-Voter@reddit

95% Erdogan supporters running to get foc fake and extremely unhealthy sweets packaged as aphrodisiacs.

His crowd loves free stuff even when it is shit.

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gushi1-@reddit

They saw the ghost of Gjergj Kastrioti. Didn’t want to meet the safe fate.

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yalnzaylak@reddit

"How can i make this about albania?"

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gushi1-@reddit

Well considering a good percentage it Turk have Albanian blood so it already about.

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yalnzaylak@reddit

so that means albanians are also a karaboğa? hell yea

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Sea-Instruction9083@reddit

It‘s like the beginn of oktoberfest, but on Turkish . It‘s an old tradition.

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Original-Gas-9209@reddit

Mk ucubeleri macun için bunu yapanlar elektronik bir ürün için birbirini vururlar mkodumun açları

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Specific-Ad4666@reddit

Pork gyros place was just opened.

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Necessary-Meeting-28@reddit

It is mesir macunu festival. Mesir macunu is a kind of candy that has a strong aphrodisiac effect.

One day in high school a friend of mine brought some to class. It was not a good day. Not a good day…

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Serious-Reception230@reddit

Des sauvages

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gushi1-@reddit

Hope the old lady ok.

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Significant-Ad-7182@reddit

They were distrubuting some kind of free candy that is really expensive so these people swarmed them.

I don't know why these guys in particular lost all decorum and self respect though.

For example lokma/lokmaki is given away for free in many places in Turkey especially in the Aegean side as a form of charity but people are respectful about it.

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Substratas@reddit (OP)

Wrong sub. r/balkans_irl

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Substratas@reddit (OP)

Wrong sub, pal. This is not r/balkans_irl

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