Turkey is a bird which belongs to the diverse Galliformes. It is called meleagris galapova in Latin. It is a big bird with black feathers and a strange thing on its nose. Its native land is north America. It was brought and introduced to Europe by conquistadors. It's a commonly kept and eaten animal. It is especially eaten on Thanksgiving days and at christmas.Another Turkey is a country which is in Middle East. It was founded by M. Kemal ATATÜRK in 1923 after a lot of fierce wars with Europeans. It's a lovely country with hospitable people.Two completely different things have the same name. For most of Turkish children who learn English, learning that "hindi" means turkey and our country is "Turkey" in English is very surprising. The reason why these two different things have the same name dates back to Ottoman times. A bird looking like turkey was introduced to the English by Turkish merchants, and they called that bird also "turkey". After the exploration of north America, as meleagris galapova looked like the bird which was called turkey formerly, they called this new bird also "turkey".After the beginning of 20th century, the word "turkey" began to get some side meanings. As the bird turkey is not very intelligent and has stupid behaviours, most of these side meanings were insulting. Some of these meaning are "stupid, fool, clumsy, a girl that is not virgin etc. There are much more disqusting meanings.If you wonder, you can visit urbandictionary.com. I, as a citizen of this country, am ashamed of this situation.
There is one solution to this problem. There is word which is both honorable and appropriate for English. It is "Turkland". It is the combination of the words "Turk" and "land". "Turk" is a really proud word for us and the word "land" is used in most of Indo-European languages in the names of countries such as England, Ireland, Scotland, Deutschland etc. I think saying "Welcome to Turkland" is much better than saying "Welcome to Turkey".There are many examples of countries and cities that have changed their names. For example, Persia made its name Iran in 50s-60s and Abyssinia made its name Ethyopia. There many more examples of this situation. I hope people will understand the severeness of the situation and start to use "Turkland" as the name of our country.
The Prestige is a movie which I think to be one of the best movies that has ever been made. It
looks like a magic movie but I think it is about Nikola Tesla, one of the most
important scientists of history. The movie develops around two magicians who are
fighting with each other throughout the movie. Robert Angier, played by Hugh
Jackman, is a young magician. Alfred Borden, played by Christian Bale, is also
a young magician who caused the death of Robert Angier's wife during a show.
After this terrible incident, the two magicians become enemies and fight with
each other and try to prove he is the best. Throughout the movie they try to
hurt each other in every possible way. At the end, Robert Angier finds out that
Nikola Tesla can make a machine for him, which will make him unrivalled. He
reaches Nikola Tesla and has him make the machine. Angier uses the machine and
make a teleportation trick which fascinates everybody watching the show. Borden
tries to find out his trick watching his numerous shows but cannot find
anything. At last he decides to examine the stage better and goes under the
stage, which prepares his execution for killing Robert Angier by suffocating
him in a water tank. In the end of the movie, you get shocked because
everything in the movie is planned so well that everything turns out to be
different at the end. The film is so hard to understand that you may have to
watch is several times to understand everything. It took me 4-5 times to
understand. The movie tells us that obsessions can cause our end. It also tells us much about Nikola Tesla. It mentions his inventions, how far he was beyond his time and how much other people like Thomas Edison tried to stop him. The movie shows Nikola Tesla as a genius, which is exactly not wrong. As I said the movie is a masterpiece and it is in the list of top 250 movies list. I hope you can have the chance to watch it over and over. I am sure you will be surprised.
