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Originally posted by LuNaSeA i had turks coming up to me and hugging me and whatnot, it was really nice!

Maybe the guy wanted u to touch his Doner Kebap. LOL, in all seriousness though, there is def. a lot of em in Germany and I think they are actually the largest minority group of any given country living in any single European Country. Theres liek 2.1 million Turks living in Germany. I was worried about a fight breaking out if they lost, but looks like it was a well played game and people got a long after anyways.

P.S. I miss the Doner Kebap. Its def. one of my faves when I go over there and its something u cant get around here, well, at least not that I know of.

Ended up watching in our hotel room. The bar downstairs couldn't get the audio working, and their TV was all choppy. Other hotel guests were pretty into their baseball, so we couldn't even ask to watch on the main screen.
Mehh... you New Yorkers and your baseball!!

Second half just started... gotta go.

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Originally posted by LuNaSeA when does anyone ever talk about turkey period on here? (at least definitely not in NYTA..) my personal experience with the turks here in germany (there are probably around 200-250,000 just in berlin) is that they're completely insanely patriotic about their country, not just around times like this (ie soccer tourneys.) kind of like some of us americans, yano? they can't take a joke about their own country, no matter how light-hearted it is. (and if that's in germany alone, i dont even wanna know how it is in turkey itself!!) that said, after the germany-turkey game, the turks and germans were really quite friendly, congratulating each other on the win, a game well-played... i had turks coming up to me and hugging me and whatnot, it was really nice! beautiful thing to see such different cultures getting along so well.. that game was definitely a test in cultural/race relations for this city.

In America ppl dont have that much information about turkey.(My ex girl friend said she never heard such a country in her life.) I had seen some great photos and comments about german spain or any other eu countries but not Turkey. Yet, some ppl consider turkey as an Arab country since I have been living New York. Turkey is a muslim country but is very different than other muslim countries. EU 2008 was a great opportunity for us to show our selves to all over the World. Besides, I believe it will help us to see Turkey as a EU member country one day.

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Originally posted by Marcolissimo Ended up watching in our hotel room. The bar downstairs couldn't get the audio working, and their TV was all choppy. Other hotel guests were pretty into their baseball, so we couldn't even ask to watch on the main screen. Mehh... you New Yorkers and your baseball!! Second half just started... gotta go.

Marco, are you kidding me bro? Leave your damn hotel... there were THOUSANDS of bars and painted up fans enjoying the euro cup in NYC!! Shit, I went to bars in the *preliminary* rounds on a WORKDAY with people all decked out, drunk, and cheering for their team!


(btw with all due respect, it WAS the subway series, so thats more important to a new yorker than, say, when the mets play houston or something!)

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