insan wrote:YFred wrote:Jimski999 wrote:Hello MR YFred and Mr Isan
There were three major riots when I was there and the last towards the end of 2007 involved several thousand Construction workers; not a fight between a few people. The reasons were manyfold though basically the Kazakhs (who by the way are a very proud race would never refer to themselves as Kazakh Turks and if I called my wife that she would most probably divorce me) believed the Turks were coming to their country and treating them as if they were Country Bumpkins or serfs. The unrest did spread to other towns and the army was called in to calm things down.
The President of Kazakhstan is very astute; he has built a completley new capital Astana which is located in central Kazakhstan as it was felt the old capital Almaty was too close to the Chinese border and the thought of Chinese expansionism is what frightens them and that is why they will always stay aligned with Russia and Turkey won't get a look in.
Well Turks do that to TCs too they call us greeks. But we don't mind and call them Gacos. So its a bit of banter, but rioting must have other reasons. Somebody is encouraging it for what ever gain they have and using the usual tool of manipulating prejudices. What's new?
This is what illiterate Turks and illiterate TCs do, not all Turks and TCs do.
Sort of you are right but even the Literate Turks although may not be so explicit, they do look down on TCs. Two of my brothers went to Uni in Turkey and that was their experience.