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[purdey]

Welcome, this may give you some idea why we don't play beach games together.
I will pop in for an espresso next time i'm passing. Enjoy...

[Balalan]

Hi Purdey,
I gathered! LOL! You are and everyone is else is welcome for a coffee anytime!

[Oracle]

I don't believe you are a newbie

Re-naming our villages and claiming them as your own is just part of the repetitive manner in which Turks operate.

Just a little lesson on this stealing the "ethnicity" of Coffee ....

This is how Turks attempt to distort history.... the invader mentality again.

Coffee bean origins are in Ethiopia (cultivated since about A.D. 800). The Turks were still in Mongolia then. It was drunk in Africa and moved to Egypt (1000-1400 A.D.) It spread throughout the Arab world despite the Ottomans and not because of the Ottomans. It was not taken outside Africa or Arabia until the 1600s by an Indian pilgrim-cum-smuggler who left Mecca with fertile seeds. As invading nomads … they did not contribute to any agricultural factors.

Coffee was in fact banned by the Ottomans. The Arab word diffused through the prevailing peoples as the word in Arabic: قهوة‎, qahweh ... which became caffe then coffee
Finally a merchant of Venice introduced Europe to coffee in 1615. By this time the Ottomans were also drinking coffee but the rise of coffee-drinking culture was in spite of the Ottomans and not because of them.

Please read the full story in National Geographic.

[Balalan]

I really don't need to explain myself in a forum about whether I am new to this forum or not!!! I don't know you, I'd like to though to find out why on earth you feel the need to behave in this way. How have I tried to distort history or spread the invader mentality? By joking about a bi-communal beach party?! Turkish Coffee is Turkish Coffee - get over it. I am sorry but I am not the sort of person who doesn't buy Greek style yoghurt because it says Greek on the packaging. I have bigger and better things to worry about in life, mainly whether my children will be faced by people like you in future who are full of resentment and have let it blind you this much so that you can't accept the person you see before you without feeling compelled to treat them this way. I am sorry if this sounds rude but I don't care about the ethnicity of coffee or lokum, I care about why there is all this resentment, I care about this a lot.