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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mos Eisley" data-source="post: 1927161" data-attributes="member: 7235">I never heard that one when I was stationed there.  Here's a small, incomplete list of things we were told or seen:1 - Don't say anything bad about Ataturk or their flag, or you will find yourself in a Turkish prison.  (True)2 - I heard they can let their wife work off any debts they (the man) may incur at the Karihani (brothel) and then they don't have to take them back afterwards. (Hearsay)3 - It was said they can turn their children over to the state if they're too poor to raise them and then get them back when they're old enough to work. (Hearsay)4 - They clean their behinds with their left hand instead of using paper.  (True)5 - Don't get in an accident there if you're an American, you're automatically to blame.  If you killed an animal you will pay for it and anything it could have produced, including offspring. (True)6 - They fold the heel of their shoes down so the heel of their foot is exposed. (True) It is said Ataturk will return as a cat and scratch the heel of his successor. 7 - They wear pants similar to the old MC Hammer variety. (True)  Our slang for them was: 7 Day Sh*tters.  We heard they poop in them for 7 days during Ramadan and then look for signs of Allah in it. (Hearsay)8 - I personally saw the conscripts line up in 2 lines facing each other while one unlucky, or unruly, conscript crawled on his hands and knees while the others beat him silly with the butts of their rifles. (True)Fun place.</blockquote>

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