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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

O man of the tree, what is your wisdom?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't get involved in a land war, in Asia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Don't be a bystander in a land war, in Asia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hard to find a proper house left when the Brit and Italian backed Greeks burn 40% of the country as "scorched earth policy" because they were so afraid that Turks would follow them beyond the Aegean sea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

One hopes that he found better fortunes in the post-war Turkish Republic! Even if it is a rather nice tree

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I guess this is my life now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Standing in solidarity as the grandchild of a turkish immigrant who has also had strangers decide my name inexplicably required a Q in it: this spelling. It hurts me. I was so bugged by it that I had to look up who could have done this, and of course it would be the french

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

French spelling is truly the most dastardly villain of them all