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Oktay Poçan  

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"Turkey" the country, "turkey" the bird

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 24, 2008, 12:47 AM
The bird and the country... Why do they have the same name? I'll tell you why...

Lets go step by step;

- Some traders brought the bird "guinea fowl" to Turkish lands from Madagascar.

- Turkish people liked this new breed of poultry and it became popular.

- European traders found selling these birds profitable so they imported "guinea fowl" through Turkey,

- Turkish people was calling "guinea fowl" as "Hindi"... Because they we're thinking the bird was originally from India... "Hindistan" is for "India" in Turkish language...

- And similarly European people called it "turkey", they named "guinea fowl" after the country it came from.

- When Europeans went to America, they saw a similar bird and called it "turkey" too... Actually it was a different species.

- Now in English language the word "turkey" is for two different species of birds and one country.

- In English language there was also "Turkey corn" or "Turkey wheat" similarly named after the country, but by the time the name changed to "Indian corn". [1], [2]

- Benjamin Franklin wrote to her daughter the bird turkey would be better a symbol for United States instead of bald eagle. [3]

- In many languages the name for the bird is related to India. See the link for the etymology of the words used for guinea fowl in different languages. [4]

[1] [link]

[2] [link]) Add a closing bracket ")" to the end of address. Silly Deviantart parser removes the bracket at the end. The title of the article on Wikipedia is; Turkey_(bird)

[3] [link]

[4] [link]


If you didn't know, now you learned the reason of this disambiguation... You have the links, please follow them and read more... I'm bored of being scientific... Now I want to tell you about two types of idiots...

First type; the idiots from -usually- western countries, make that silly smiling fuck face when they learned that you're from Turkey... They have a very limited brain capacity; barely enough to eat, drink, sleep and fuck, so they never get themselves into activities like trying to learn why are these two has the same name... But they have a couple of extra neurons to make fun of my countries name.

Second type; the idiots from Turkey, they are the Turkish counterparts of first type of idiots. But of course, they don't make fun of the name but instead they use those extra neurons to get angry, and to propose using the word "Türkiye" instead of "Turkey".

Well, if you're reading this, probably you're reading it on DeviantArt web site, which is a small part of the information ocean we call Internet. You can't have any excuse to be ignorant while you have an access to this amount of information.

If you're in the first group of idiots, (well I know it's physically impossible, you can't read this much) first of all; fuck you! I love my country and you're not allowed to make fun of it with your single digit IQ. We're not making fun of Indian people because we call the bird "hindi".

And for the second group of idiots, our country has bigger problems then a couple of fools making fun of its name. OK, I know you have a very limited brain capacity but at least learn to shut up when you don't know anything about the subject. And before I forget, fuck you too...

My favorite comedian George Carlin died yesterday... I'm sad, I'm disappointed and angry...

That's all... Go now!



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=Norke:iconNorke: 1 day 5 hours ago
Hey, thx for having me on your watchlist. I appreciate it, I'm glad you like my work. :)

:peace:
Yannick

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~oktaypocan:iconoktaypocan: 4 days 17 hours ago
Teşekkür ederim, o fotografları çok basit bi kompakt kamera ile çekmiştim. Adam akıllı bi kamera alıcam yakında.

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~AntalyaCity:iconAntalyaCity: 5 days 19 hours ago
Güzel galeri. Özellikle makro çalışmalar hoşuma gitti...

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~yunuSkaya:iconyunuSkaya: Jun 18, 2008, 6:49:57 AM
Tesekkurederim.

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~oktaypocan:iconoktaypocan: Jun 15, 2008, 10:35:37 PM
e-mail me... oktaypocan@yahoo.com

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~magneticpaper:iconmagneticpaper: Jun 15, 2008, 6:43:26 AM
hello do you know how to remove the ads that stay on the middle of the page? hehe thanks! :D

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~kalaayu:iconkalaayu: Jun 3, 2008, 5:28:06 AM
hi..thank u for adding me! :blowkiss:
~chanf:iconchanf: Jun 1, 2008, 8:18:53 PM
hii.. thx 4 the add....:)

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*Athey:iconAthey: May 7, 2008, 5:16:22 PM
Thanks for the favs :)

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~gerhanaxz:icongerhanaxz: Mar 23, 2008, 8:44:46 AM
:D

finally you found me LOL...

hope i can meet you again soon...

c u

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~oktaypocan:iconoktaypocan: Mar 19, 2008, 7:26:16 PM
Thanks for asking! I'm busy with some commercial projects and my brother is busy with his photography and video school. We must come up with something more intense then previous demoreel so we need to spare more time. I guess we'll be releasing demoreel'08 by this summer but it's not certain yet.

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=psion005:iconpsion005: Mar 18, 2008, 11:15:53 PM
So when are we going to see DEMOREEL 08???????... i need my fix ;)

Me--->:alien:

P.S thanks for adding me to your :+devwatch:

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~Semsa:iconSemsa: Mar 18, 2008, 11:25:37 AM
selam Oktay :wave:

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=No-More-Ignorance:iconNo-More-Ignorance: Mar 9, 2008, 9:40:11 PM Mood: Love
Our Newest project had been Launched...

You could download it from our DA page , or, Read it online at Gaza; Oops They Did it Again

Please help us spread the truth, and help our voice get Louder...

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~oktaypocan:iconoktaypocan: Feb 19, 2008, 3:19:03 PM
Benden her ay alacağın €80+KDV reklam ödemesini aynen DeviantArt'a aktararak 500 piksellik bir avarata kavuşabilirsin. Biliyorum, 500 piksele de sığmazsın sen ama idare et artık...

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~CihanPocan:iconCihanPocan: Feb 19, 2008, 2:19:08 PM
Hey bro!
Akodyum reklamı aldım signiçırıma... Ayda 80 Euro+KDV ödeyecekmissin bana öyle duydum.
Avatarıma da alışamadım, sanki ben değilmişim gibi, 50 pixele sığacak adammıyım ben!

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~oktaypocan:iconoktaypocan: Feb 19, 2008, 5:11:51 AM
You're welcome! I'm some kind of Indo too :)

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~alandarocks:iconalandarocks: Feb 13, 2008, 3:56:09 AM
Hi! Thanks for the :+devwatch:, mate! :)

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~CihanPocan:iconCihanPocan: Feb 9, 2008, 3:08:47 PM
Sen bizim Şikago'daki dükkanı bi arayıver, arkadaşlar ordan yönlendirsinler 555 7613.
~kapt73:iconkapt73: Feb 9, 2008, 8:24:34 AM
favori ve watch için teşekkürler
:) :butterflytwo:

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