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SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit

Why in Arabic? Even Ottoman Turks barely underatood it

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_lavoisier_@reddit

barely? the only time everyday ottoman turks used arabic when they were reciting arabic prayer without knowing the meaning of single word. this is still true today.

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Ill_Chicken550@reddit

The German Foreign Minister spent way too much time on r/Balkans_irl

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evoscheibe@reddit

How many times do we have to tell them? We are not arab we are black.

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SwimmingAttention133@reddit

they don't speak Arabic in Turkey ? What's next ? They don't ride magic carpets and camels on their way to work ?

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letruxx@reddit

Do you know how expensive the carpets are? Let alone running cost would be around 2lt olive oil per 1 km.

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Hertzian_Dipole1@reddit

We do ride camels all the time. If you want to have a holiday photo, we can arrange one only for 20€

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

There were at leas 1500 camels in Bulgaria a century ago.

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iboreddd@reddit

I recently have watched Young Sherlock. The very first scene they showed about Istanbul was a god damn camel

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

There were at leas 1500 camels in Bulgaria a century ago.

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

https://www.dobrogeaexplore.ro/camile-in-dobrogea-ei-bine-da/

There were once camels in the Dobruja (Bulgaria-Romania, too.

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HumanInstanceY@reddit

The most fragile and sensitive people of all time strikes again, so embarrassing

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bugog@reddit

All her tweets are in Arabic. It is not about Turkey. She has tweets about Israel or Ukraine and they are all Arabic.

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themaelstorm@reddit

Check her account: "The official account of the spokesperson for the German Foreign Office in the Middle East and North Africa region. " ALL her tweets are in Arabic.

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greenest_alien@reddit

I love it how this correct explanation is left buried beneath all the cheap X outrage and of course the introductory explanation on what to think in starting post.

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I love how the fact that this 'correct' explanation is BS because she is literally addressing the Turkish minister in the said post is also buried beneath all the "if the turks are upset something must be right" comments.

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greenest_alien@reddit

The most plausible explanation is not that she had literal talks with literal Turkish minister and failed to notice he doesn't speak Arabic.

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yamankara@reddit

no chance she doesn't know TR speaks Turkish. Probably neglect by her and incompetence by her team.

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ohgoditsdoddy@reddit

The account is an account that communicates in Arabic. Unless there is a single past instance of them posting in another language depending on the subject matter or the parties involved, it is difficult to call this neglect or incompetence or a “bullshit explanation.”

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

I don't understand—why in Arabic? Turks speak Turkish, after all, and use the Latin alphabet.

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Are you Turkish bro?

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

benim rahmetli bobamdı türk.

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Are you a Bulgarian Turk like me?

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

"Yok, benim dedälarım geldilär Romıniya tarafından Ada Kaleh adasından Türkiye'ye"

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Sen doğma büyüme Romanyalı mısın üsrad? Kırım Tatarı mısın? Benim dedem Kırım'dan Bulgaristan'a göçen Türklerden.

Anında anladım zaten Türklük olduğunu br Avrupalı bizi savunuyorsa %99 kendi de Türktür.

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

Yok, biz Romıniyadanız, Dobrucada. Benim dedeler Ada Kalehdan geldilär orayı.

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Distinct-Student-324@reddit

çok tatlı konuşuyorsunuz 😭😭😭

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Üstad benim dedem Kırım'dan gelme Tatar, onlara benziyor Türkçen

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

"güzäl, Tataraları beenirim, pek ii insan.

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Benim de baba tarafım Romanya'dan Bulgarsitan'ın Dobriç kısmına inme. Sen Romanya Türkü müsün reis?

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

Evet, biz Romıniyadan türküz.

Dobruca'nın yeri bir payı Bulgariya, öbür payı Romıniya.

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Final-Nebula-7049@reddit

because Europe disenfrenchises Turkey by calling it Middle East, Arab, etc. to punish for anything they don't agree with but do themselves.

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Critical-Positive858@reddit

breathe.. you are middle eastern

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NinerKNO@reddit

near east (Turkey), middle east (Iraq, Iran, et al), far east (China, Japan, et al)

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Final-Nebula-7049@reddit

No, we are in Anatolia

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floare_salbatica@reddit

Yeah, sure, you're always the victim. Have a look at this guy who is from Dobrogea and says that his family moved there from Ada Kaleh. He isn't able to speak Romanian. He also writes shit about Romania and defends Turkey. Lately he claimed that Romanianas from Dobrogea are dark skinned and in another reply in the same thread posted a link of some very blonde (partially) Turkish women. Let's be honest: you almost never integrate. And then you wonder where the animosity comes from.

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greenest_alien@reddit

It's a Muslim language, potato tomato

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Downtown-Figure6434@reddit

Okey every “Christian country” speaks German from now on

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bender__futurama@reddit

Italian? Latin? Or Russian, it is Slavic language. Potato tomato.

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Downtown-Figure6434@reddit

Bro that phrase is tomayto tomahto at best in writing. It's supposed to be verbal. Ironically you are actually saying they are different things while trying to say they are the same thing

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bender__futurama@reddit

You do understand that I am copying our Czech colleague? And that my comment should be sarcastic. ☺️

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Downtown-Figure6434@reddit

we dont to sarcasm in Turkey, we are more autistic than germans

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bender__futurama@reddit

You are not. If anything we are all quite similar in the Balkans.

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Downtown-Figure6434@reddit

okey maybe just me then

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GameXGR@reddit

gif

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

Oh man... Arab Christians speak Arabic too—just so you know.

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themaelstorm@reddit

Because apparently she's the spokesperson for the German Foreign Office in the Middle East and North Africa region and ALL of her tweets are in Arabic.

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Yavannia@reddit

Still not a good excuse to be honest why use a language that has nothing to do either with Germany or Turkey for a post about them?

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Additional-Peace-809@reddit

So this is a big nothing burger?

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reviery_official@reddit

of course.

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BiwaHayahideSoldier@reddit

We all know why lmao, it's racism

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greenest_alien@reddit

You literally have the correct answer two posts up above you.

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Dexterus@reddit

So she's just stupid?

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greenest_alien@reddit

She's communicating with Arab audience, so she uses Arab language in all her posts.

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Dexterus@reddit

I would say awesome she communicates with Arab audience in Arabic but isn't that the Turkish flag? isn't she addressing it to a Turkish official?

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greenest_alien@reddit

She is, so maybe that is a mistake yeah.

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NecessaryDisaster498@reddit

Either the person is an utter moron

or

This is just alt-right grifting, generalizing turks as arabs and pretending all "muslim" to be the same with aims to provoce turks.

No in between.

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themaelstorm@reddit

No, she posts all in Arabic, the account is "The official account of the spokesperson for the German Foreign Office in the Middle East and North Africa region. "

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NinerKNO@reddit

I speak a few different languages. The first thing I do when communicating with a person is to speak a common language. I would not expect to get a reply from a German if I spoke Swahili (which I don't know anyway).

So when speaking to a Turkish audience as she is doing, a post in German, English, or Turkish would be the basic expectation. She most likley know at least German and English. So her being spokesperson for MIddle east is irrelevant.

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NecessaryDisaster498@reddit

Yes. Hence she is doing an alt-right grift or she is just a moron.

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smeidkrp@reddit

Yeah how does this make sense to you? We should only use Russian in posts about European countries then

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Downtown-Figure6434@reddit

If she has role in international relations, she should show the differences while addressing different nations. It’s not an excuse

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

This is how average Americans portray it; to them, all Muslims are synonymous with the Middle East and speak Arabic.

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TheHessian64@reddit

Just checked her account. She's the spokesperson for the MENA Region and is posting tweets in Arabic regardless of the topic. So this is probably not a mistake.

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RaidDrake@reddit

Ragebait disinformation post.

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StunningAssumption@reddit

To her credit she tweets only in Arabic

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CypriotGreek@reddit

"Spokesperson of the German Foreign Office for the Middle East & North Africa, Director of the Regional Information Centre Cairo"

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Commercial_Leek6987@reddit

You think Middle East is Arab?

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bruhmanbruuh@reddit

Mostly, yes.

Sure there are Yazidis, Jews,Greeks, Armenians, Turks , Assyrians etc etc, yet the majority are Arabs.

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tompa_zg@reddit

Why not use German? This is braindead.

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Sweet_Bridge_3001@reddit

Nothingburger.

The person in question posts everything in Arabic, not just this tweet about Turkey.

We Turks have a common fear of being grouped with Arabs, even a mention of Turks and Arabs in the same sentence will get you a bunch of angry comments saying ''TURKS ARE NOT ARABS!!!'', its getting really annoying.

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

Which Turkic peoples refer to themselves as Arabs? Central Asians? Certainly not. Azerbaijanis? Not them either. Well, there are Arabs living in Turkey—primarily in Iskenderun, Hatay, and so on. Some of them speak both Turkish and Arabic. (By this, I do not mean Syrian refugees, but rather long-established local families.)

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Random_Name_2k26@reddit

All Christians speak Latin right?

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LibertyChecked28@reddit

Bro still lives in 1927

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

1-) In 1927, it was Turkish written in Arabic Alphabet, like Georgian written in Cyrillic alphabet.

2-) H*tler and his regime considered Turkey to be honorary Aryan and Europeans. That's why the intellectual neo-n*zis in Europe tend to see Turks as "Lesser Europeans" and bully us slightly less than average racist europeans.

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pitogyros@reddit

N*zis opinion on turks was not fixed ( obviously since their ideology was based on pseudoscience )

Generally Turks were seen as Central Asian, Mongolic, Mediterranean, Alpine by some

Central Asian by others

Mediterranean mixture by some others.

But as you correctly mentioned they were not treated as bad as Slavs , Jews , Romani people.

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

Exactly—on the sunken island of Ada Kaleh in Romania, the Arabic script persisted for a longer time; even in the 1930s, they were still using the Arabic script. The Latin script was adopted from the Romanian alphabet. Look:

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Naive-Independent-86@reddit

what the fuck are you talking about?

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BagComprehensive79@reddit

Even then he is still wrong because they were still using same Turkish language not Arabic. Just different alphabet. He is wrong even about alphabet because they were using mixture of Arabic and Farsi alphabet, not Arabic alphabet directly.

Looks like there is not a single thing he did correctly.

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Satyriasis457@reddit

It's a department especially for the Arabic speaking region

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Empty-Pace-4228@reddit

Personally, even though I define myself as an Asian migrant as a part of the Turkish diaspora, I believe that, if Turkey had a normal form of government with a normal political scene, Turkey would have contributed a lot to EU.

It is definitely good for the enemies of the EU that these people are in charge of the EU.

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evoscheibe@reddit

We already contributing to eu a lot. We play the border post role between middle east and europe so those racist crackers dont have to see brown skinned people.

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Crafty-Captain@reddit

I need a link or a picture please 🤣🤣🤣

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SingedFreud@reddit

No one can convince me that this was unintentional.

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rakun90@reddit

I checked the account. All her tweets are in Arabic.

10/10 ragebait though. I almost fell into it.

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South-Fudge-1550@reddit

monster with one tooth left is a phrase used to mock "civilised europe" in turkish national anthem if anyones confused idk

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rubber_moon@reddit

You'd be surprised how many people think Arabic is spoken widely in Turkey

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

This is how average Americans portray it; to them, all Muslims are synonymous with the Middle East and speak Arabic. Many are astonished to learn that people in Central Asia—particularly in Kazakhstan (known in the U.S. thanks to *Borat*)—are a Turkic people who are culturally Muslim, not Arabs. The same applies to Albanian, Slavic, and Gypsy Muslims living in Europe.

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