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nemo37 on 16 April 2017
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Turkish said:
Qwark said:

Not if I have anything to say about it. I would rather see Turkey go to shit (something which they guaranteed today) than ever having political influence in Europe. Hell I prefer Putin over Erdogan and I am Dutch and he shot MH17 down.

It just shows how biased you are that you rather support a man who murdered Dutch citizens. Why? Because Erdogan is a non-European, a Muslim? I can't imagine your reaction if Erdogan shot down that plane. It's mentality like yours and the way your country behaved last month that both sides in Turkey agree with each other.

"I would rather see Turkey go to shit (something which they guaranteed today) than ever having political influence in Europe"

Just wow, Turkey has been in European politics for centuries.

nemo37 said:

I do not like to get involved in political discussions all that much. However, is that not like a really bad thing to say. You are basically burning bridges with every German person here. Not to mention it is nationalistic sentiments, like yours, of various countries subordinating one another that typically leads to wars and instability (just look at pre-WWI, WWI, and WWII wars to get a sense of the damage these sentiments bring).

 

P.S. I am sorry for what happened in Trukey. I was born in Iran (though as you can probably tell from my profile, I am a Canadian Citizen now), and I know what a bad political event can do to a country (in Iran it was the events of 38 years ago that turned that nation on its head, not that I saw the transformation that country went through with my own eyes as I was not born yet but I heard and read about how bad the aftermath was). Sadly, it seems like the citizens of many nations are making bad decisions that hurt their future prospects not to mention their democracies. Hopefully, after people eventually become tired of Erdogen (it tends to happen with most authoratarian-style leaders, where eventually their supporters realize they were lied to by a power-hungry person) or his successor they will work to bring back the parliamentary system. 

His comment has a xenophobic undertone "stop infesting Europe", and I gave him the reply he deserves.

I do agree his comment did seem somewhat xenophobic and personal (I do not know this person well to understand if he came off this way on purpose). Moreover, being born in a country that many in the West do not like, I understand how fraustrating it can be when people attach labels to you simply because of your origin (often times based on generalizations and misconceptions; and certinaly no reflective of your individuality). However,  I think it is always best to extend an olive branch to other and start a dialogue, because it is much more effective to get people to see how you really are when you do not have defensive tone (regardless of the relief one feels by verbally unloading on a person that has insulted them). The statement that you made before just gave this individual material to point at you and say you fit the stereotype they have concuted of you and others of your origin, which is counter productive.