Not Good News for Turkish Tourism

Moto2

http://www.channel4.com/news/islamic-state-militant-pictured-in-turkish-holiday-resorts

richardw

The Daily Scream will be saying don't go east of Clacton soon.

Moto2

richardw wrote: »

The Daily Scream will be saying don't go east of Clacton soon.

I'm sure they will
Especially with Turkey now publicly joining the fight against ISIS


I don't think there is any worry for most folk about It but if they did hit Turkey, how many of us would be totally surprised?

I'm off next week, if you don't hear from me again ..............

lea2012

It is worrying that a rather high profile ISIS member can move around Turkey so freely, however there are a couple of other things to consider here.

The Black Sea area is not well known as a 'tourist resort', especially with Western Europeans. It is an area where Turkish people would holiday but it is a good 20+hours away from the main Turkish holiday resorts that we know and love.
Also there are probably just as many, if not more, ISIS members wandering around in the UK at this moment in time. There are people that the UK government suspect have been to Syria or other countries for ISIS training and who have returned to the UK without questions!

The areas of Turkey that ISIS are trying to get a stronghold over are mainly Kurdish populated areas, and unfortunately Kurdish people have long been at the bottom of the priority list for the Turkish government! Although Turkey are now starting to take a stand it's probably more because they feel they have to rather than want to. I lived in Turkey for three years, and whilst I know the tourist resorts are a long way from Kobane and such like I personally would not wish to holiday there at this moment in time.

budgetflyer

Are ISIS not allowed a holiday?

interstellaflyer

budgetflyer wrote: »

Are ISIS not allowed a holiday?

I thought they were promised a holiday once they'd done their 'duty' one that involves prosperity and being waited on by many virgins, mind you I would've thought they would be getting short of virgins these days.

interstellaflyer

The problem with this kind of journalism is that they go for sensationalism rather than put it in to perspective, how many people have travelled from the UK to join ISIS and how many have come back here? We know that there are people living here that want to do us harm and there have been a few terrorist plots stopped by the authorities through intelligence gathered on certain individuals and it's not just in the name of Islam either, most people my age will remember the days when you couldn't watch the news without there being an item about a shooting or a bomb going off in Northern Ireland and sometimes over here in England, 11 killed and 63 injured at a Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 1987, 5 Dead and 31 injured at the Grand Hotel Brighton bombing 1984, Warrington 1993, 2 children killed dozens injured, these attacks were by (Christian) Catholic Republicans not Islamists, add to the list Locherbie and 7/7, Now just how many people have been killed or injured in Tunisia or Turkey over the years and How many have been killed or injured in the tourist areas of Egypt?

[Deleted User]

It's not so much Isis but Turkish men who put me off going to Turkey ever again.
A dreadful bunch of violent misogynists.

balletshoes

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's not so much Isis but Turkish men who put me off going to Turkey ever again.
A dreadful bunch of violent misogynists.

all Turkish men?

[Deleted User]

balletshoes wrote: »

all Turkish men?

Naturally I didn't meet every man in Turkey but of those I did meet the vast majority were rude,vain,prone to fits of anger which on several occasions I witnessed resulted in brutal violence with virtually no provocation.
Women were treated as 2nd class citizens and female tourists including young girls subjected to constant leering, wolf-whistles and graphic hand gestures.
The highlight of our holiday was a day trip to a nearby Greek island - the difference in behaviour,culture and manners was a sight to behold.

Voyager2002

Deleted_User wrote: »

Naturally I didn't meet every man in Turkey but of those I did meet the vast majority were rude,vain,prone to fits of anger which on several occasions I witnessed resulted in brutal violence with virtually no provocation.
Women were treated as 2nd class citizens and female tourists including young girls subjected to constant leering, wolf-whistles and graphic hand gestures.
The highlight of our holiday was a day trip to a nearby Greek island - the difference in behaviour,culture and manners was a sight to behold.

Oddly enough, my observations of Greek men (only in Athens) and Turkish men are the exact opposite. I am male, but was with female company in both countries.