Sure, if you ask me Arabs will not cause any big problems in Turkey or create a terror organisation like Kurds did.
But they will never understand our values or for example how much we care for our founder Ataturk...On youtube i see all sorts of comments from Arabs against Ataturk and most of them are bad...
They wouldn't understand Secularism, that's what i'm afraid of.
Most of them should go back, that's for sure but we can sort out Turkmens and loyal Arabs to make them Turkish citizens.
There shouldn't be 500.000 Syrians in just one city, this will only change the demographics of the area.
We did that mistake with Kurds and now we are suffering from the consequences.
As for the Turkish citizens with Arab background, that's a different story. You can't compare them with the ones from other countries. First of all they choose to stay with us and fought with us together to form this country and most of them were raised with the values of our Republic.
Consequently Arabs in Turkey became real patriots, i really like them...if it wasn't for them then our flag wouldn't be waving in some parts of Eastern Turkey.
First of all, just out of curiosity, does your username derive from the Arabic word, Mujahid?
You really like the Turkish Arabs (who are natives of those regions of Turkey) and you admit that they have been an asset for but you have an totally different opinion (it seems) of Syrians who happen to be more or less identical to the Turkish Arabs who live just across the border?
As for
@TurkeyForever 's bombastic claim of 90% of Turks hating Arabs then this is complete and utter nonsense from what I have seen, witnessed either. I constantly see friendly Turkish comments (in Turkish and Arabic) on social media, below Youtube videos that display Arabic songs and videos related with Arabs, Arab countries, Arab world etc. Nor is the ruling party in Turkey (AKP) hostile towards Arabs, rather the opposite.
Personally I have never had a single problem with Turks. I also know/have heard of plenty of Turkish-Arab intermarriages in KSA, many Arab countries, Turkey, Europe etc. In fact alone on this forum I recall a few of such mixtures among both Arab and Turkish users and this is a very, very small sample of people.
The truth is, trolling aside, that it depends on the ideological and personal views of a person whether Turk or Arab.
There are around 450 million Arabs worldwide and I would say that most have a friendly/positive view of Turks and we are quite similar on many fronts. Although there are people, just like among Turks, who have a negative view for whatever reasons whether it is due to ideology, stereotypes or personal experiences.
Anyway would you think it would be logical for Arabs, in this case mostly Syrians and Iraqis to have a positive view of their Turkmen citizens but dislike/have a negative view of Turks? I know that such people exist but given the ground realities I struggle to understand such thinking or logic.
The problem here is not Arabs as they are among the closest people among the non-Turks and even neighbors. One could even argue that an Syrian Arab from Aleppo has more in common with an Turk from nearby Adana or Gazientep than he has with an Uzbek from Bukhara.
I believe that it is about the amount of Syrian refugees and the fact that they happen to be war refugees mostly. That combined with the current unrest, economy and political situation in Turkey. Besides very few countries, especially in the ME, would like to accept 3 million foreigners suddenly.
If Turkey had welcomed say 3 million Pakistanis, Afghans or Indians or Nigerians many Turks would probably have the exact same views. It is a totally normal reaction.
The reason why I even began to participate in this thread, I ignored the few anti-Arab nonsense posts, was that people totally ignored the native Turkish Arabs (one of the largest ethnic groups in Turkey) successful role in Turkish society. Some people made it sound like being an Arab was a crime and I wondered if they hold similar views of their own fellow citizens who happen to be of ethnic Arab origin. The First Lady of Turkey is such a person. Aziz Sancar another. Hakan Sas a third. Just to name a few. Nor have I ever told anyone what to do in their own country. People have either misunderstood my posts, not read them from the beginning to the end or replied to my posts from an imaginative perspective where I said something that they wanted me to say or expected me to say.
@TurkeyForever Arabs are very proud people and I really do not understand why you are using Arab as an insult to a fellow Turk of yours who happens to be of Zaza origin. You remind me of the moronic Arab minority who use Turk/Mongol as an insult. Aside from trolling on forums like PDF, then don't go that way. It disqualifies you and all similar thinking people regardless of origin.
@KediKesenFare a friendly advice, "Arabian" in the English language is only used for Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula. Meanwhile Arabs is used for everyone else.
I guess we would be no better if we "controlled" Hollywood as well.
