Remember them times when 'Misafirlik' took place?
(A word that probably doesn't exist in anyones vocabulary.)
Remember them times when people used to come around other people's houses on Sunday's and wouldn't leave till after 11? Remember 'Turk geceleri'? Or even when there was weddings taking place and 'everyone' spoke to one another without beef taking place?
I wouldn't think so. So that's why myself & Sevgi hanim, have knocked heads together, rubbed brain cells ( of what's left) and thought, let's get things rolling. Lets TRY and get people together, because at the end of the day, we will be the next generation to come through, your kids will grow up, and ask who is who, what is what, and even forget about their mother tongue.
We thought, the only way people will talk is when someone starts something. So here it is. Halil & Sevgi have started it, and we will make it work. Dr. Osman did a great job to get it moving in the past, with the turkish school, and Turk gecesi (in birmingham), and I know London's turkish community is far greater than ours. So lets pull out fingers out, get together, and bring in people that didnt even know a turkish community existed in BIRMINGHAM!
Everyone is welcome. Full TURKISH, Part Turkish, Kibrisli. In the end we are ALL blood, and ignoring and living this "alone" life will not help the future of our kids. We don't want them to forget who they are, the culture, the family meaning and the reason that we exist.
As soon as you are invited; share, pass it on, invite, scream it, plaster it on your wall, let the people no that WE EXIST IN BIRMINGHAM, and that we need to get together. Let the unknown become known.
Halil & Sevgi.
P.S. 1st of January 2011 - the first even that will take place will be shared. This will be BIG! and I mean BIG! HADE!
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