Armenian Vans - real "aristocrats"

[bell-the-cat]

More here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63525723@N00/109122288/

[TurQ]

thanx for links!
These cats are really something!

My cat used to come in front of my bath room as I was brushing my teeth she would simulate it by scracthing carpet(I think the noise make him crazy) , when I stop brushing she quits, when I start again she would start again, and made me laugh each time

More here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63525723@N00/109122288/

[Maggie Simpson]

Yes Van Cats are real aristocrats, but lets settle this issue here, lets dont call them either Armenian or Turkish Van Cats ok?

No, request DENIED. They are and always will be ARMENIAN cats.

[bell-the-cat]

Having talked at length with numerous Van cats, I can report that they consider themselves to be neither Turks nor Armenians. And Van cats are not to be argued with.

[Gavur]

This is the Turkish cat!

Supreme Court Of Appeals Overrules Decision On Caricaturist Depicting Erdogan As A Cat
Published: 4/30/2006






Published: 4/30/2006
ANKARA - Supreme Court of Appeals overruled a decision regarding caricaturist Musa Kart who was ordered to pay a fine of 5,000 YTL (approximately 3,700 USD) due to his cartoon depicting Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a ''cat''.
Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet published a cartoon, authored by cartoonist Musa Kart, depicting PM Erdogan as a ''cat''. Erdogan's lawyer filed a lawsuit against Kart.

A court in Ankara ordered Kart to pay a 5,000 YTL fine after it found him guilty of insulting the premier.

Today, Supreme Court of Appeals overruled this verdict and decided that the request for compensation should be rejected.

http://www.turkishpress.co/news.asp?id=121260

They realized it was not a caricutare but a portrait!

[Gavur]

Can animals really talk Turkish?

Saturday, May 27, 2006










AYŞE ÖZGÜN
Hıdrellez is a traditional “Thank Goodness Spring is Here!” kind of holiday in this part of the world that takes place in March every year. Celebrations include picnics and family gatherings where the food is abundant on the tables and music not too far from ears as an accompaniment to jovial folk dancing in the village squares.

It was no different this year in Palabıyık Village, which is 13 kilometers away from the city center of Çorum. Döndü and Muharrem Türkmen are farmers living in this village. They tend their fields and look after their small flock just like their fathers and forefathers have done for maybe a hundred years.

Döndü decided to slaughter their rooster for dinner that night and asked Muharrem, her husband, to accomplish the deed for her. When Muharrem began the feat, just as he placed the sharp knife against the rooster's neck, out came a cry from the doomed rooster as follows:

“Annneeeeeee!”

This, as many of you will know, translates into “mother” in Turkish.

Both Muharrem and Döndü were shocked and flabbergasted. Without further ado, Döndü Türkmen saw this as an omen of sorts and asked her husband not to slaughter the animal. I may as well add that the rooster was one year old. Thereby this lucky rooster was saved from a disastrous end and donated to a zoo for safekeeping. I'll bet he has been tagged “The Talking Rooster.”

Would you believe it, at around the same time, another rooster was being readied for slaughter in Kyrgyzstan with the hope of it being served at a similar Hıdrellez dinner table. When the gent placed the knife at that rooster's neck, it is claimed that the following cry came out of the rooster's beak:

“Alllaaaaaaahhhh!”

Not only was that rooster saved from meeting his end, but people from afar began flocking to the village to take a peek at the “Praying Rooster.” No doubt the traffic has helped raise the economic level of that village.

What can I say? What can anyone say? Perceptions and traditional beliefs are at play here. We have seen cats that meow like children, too. In fact I have a very close friend who claims her cat calls her “anne” when she's hungry. I was at her house the other day and, sure enough, she did meow like she was saying “anne,” but I think my friend is really taking it too far because, to me, it was something between a meow and an “anne.” No one really can be sure. Vocabulary and a word's meaning cannot be grasped by a cat or a rooster, can they?