the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet just translated that article as i can see now, they also showed Jarusalem Post as the source too.
Well yes Morticia, I saw some people who had Orphaned Land t-shirts. I didn't wear, honestly i have only one OL tshirt that i bought in one concert of them which was quite small for me, i am not sure if you can remember, i talked with you a bit there.
The Sonisphere fest was great, i think it was such in Romania etc. too, whole the Inonu Staduim was full. It was cool to see Slayer, Anthrax, Megedeth, Metallica etc. at the same stage. It would be nicer to see Orphaned Land there too. I have also meet with a lot of metallers from Syria, Lebanon and Georgia there. It was great. It seems like soon they will have such organizations too. I guess it will be great to visit Syria from here for such events.
I actually do not blame the organizators of Sonisphere that they canceled the OL concert, maybe they just didn't want to see any possible problem for this concerts.
Let's be a bit patient and calm. As Kobi said, it is so hard to build something but easy to collapse. We are on side to build, which is the hard side. If we can make things just a bit better, let's claim it as a victory. All these efforts will bring very big results by the time, we will all see that.
I actually get it as a chance to live in a geography where is close to Arabians, Persians or Jews. All of them has a great cultural background, and have even an older history than we Turks. We exchanged a lot of cultural materials for years that you can say as thousands. The most of Turkic people choosen Islam which borned in Arabia whilst one other turkic tribe choosen Judaism (Khazars) and one other choosen Christianity (Gagauzians) which shows our ties to the middle east.
Please look the the following flag:
Do you think that it is a kind of ancient Jewish state? It was the flag of Karamanids in Anatolia who was before the Ottomans and who were moslems. The star on the Israeli flag is also holly for moslems!
