Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

sticky - what did you see and where? ..... sorry but cannot rely on anything MrT says/writes as it's usually a load of half-formed and inaccurate anti-anything polemic - aka bollocks!

cynic I have been their it is terrible and very sad the west have left the mess they have made for these poor people to pay for our crimes .

forgot cynic would never go to any were if it was a little bit dangerous he would be under the table

These disturbing images have spread across social networking sites and extremist forums, having been posted online by the gunmen themselves.

"News reports of beheadings have been substantiated by witnesses and residents of the areas in which the crimes were committed," said Syrian journalist Mohammed al-Abdullah, who currently resides in Cairo.

"The majority of these crimes are carried out openly in public squares, where ISIL gunmen display the severed heads for days next to the corpses, which are sometimes mutilated or burned," he said.

The most recent of these incidents were the beheadings of Lebanese soldiers Abbas Medlej and Ali al-Sayed and the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, images of which were posted online in August and September.

Earlier in August, ISIL gunmen beheaded eight rival opposition fighters in Akhtarin, rural Aleppo, al-Abdullah said. They also decapitated six Syrian army troops after seizing control of the headquarters of the 17th Division near the city of al-Raqa in late July, and hung the heads on the fence around al-Naeem roundabout garden in the city's centre.

In August, ISIL beheaded three men from the Sunni Shaitat tribe, which had rebelled against its rule in the rural part of Deir Ezzor province.

Just another form of politics.

Full of beliefs and those dodgy ideas.

8-)

Cyners plenty of graphic pictures....Turkey..... sunday on Twitter, not for my liking.

please can someone post something intelligent about turkey and whatever this alleged "dangerous situation" is meant to be

i don't do twitter at all, nor any other of these social media sites other than LinkedIn which i find can be interesting and useful for our specific industry

Summary
Still current at: 3 November 2014
Updated: 31 October 2014
Latest update: Terrorism section – there is a heightened threat of terrorist attack globally

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to within 10 km of the border with Syria.

The FCO advise against all but essential travel to:
the remaining areas of Sirnak, Mardin, Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis and Hatay provinces
Siirt, Tunceli and Hakkari provinces.
Over 2,500,000 British nationals visit Turkey every year. Most visits are trouble-free.

If anyone wants a 'nearly free' 1 week holiday out in Turkey on a property viewing holiday just contact Orka Homes.

The 'nearly' bit is, that you will have to pay for your flights. These are around £120 Return. They will fix you up with good 4* accommodation which may be something like a detached villa with pool, or a really good 4* hotel.

The temp out there at the moment (Oct/Nov) is around 20 deg C.

Have a look at http://www.orkahomes.co.uk/viewing-trip/book-a-viewing-trip/

One last thing....

Before you do this, do a Google for something like 'Orka Homes Turkey Reviews'

Cyners Im trying to find you the low down on Turkey on twitter just doing a search.

Jesus, this is the first thing I got up.......

auren Duhon ‏@lcduhon 17h17 hours ago Sugar Land, TX

My parents are fighting over whether to buy a smoked ham or turkey. Please don't let me get to this point in life.

Rai Radio3 ‏@Radio3tweet Oct 23 Rome

Stunning aerial photo shows hundreds of cars abandoned at Turkey border by refugees fleeing fighting in Kobani, Syria

the above (49023) is a much more accurate summation of the situation in turkey
it's reasonably certain that most on here don't know the geography and juxtaposition of the turkey/syria border, so perhaps someone could post a map to show

anyway, the area of danger is in the very far south and eastern part of turkey and an awful long way from the tourist areas in the west that border the mediterranean

going back to the beginning of 20th century and kemal attaturk and the foundation of turkey as we now know it, the turks aided by the kurds massacred the armenians and there has been much friction in that respect and similar ever since
moving on to the late 70s, the kurds, through PKK and primarily sunni, have been fighting to form a separate and independent state from turkey

as far as i can see, the more recent internal problems have stemmed from the drift from a secular society to one where erdogan wants to (re)impose a much stricter islamic rule

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i am not sure that the above simplistic summary is 100% accurate, but no doubt someone much more knowledgeable will correct as necessary

Cyners, a lot of what was on yesterday as been censored and taken off Twitter, but theirs loads of reports coming through saying fighting in Kobani as stepped up a level and its a hell hole.

sticky - try my summation above; no surprise that the immediate area around kobani and along the border there is seriously dangerous with an awful lot of vicious and barbaric fighting - but when has war ever been gentlemanly?

There is no fighting around the villas, particularly the ones with the pools - not even fighting for sun loungers.

:-)

cynic

the drift from a secular society to one where erdogan wants to (re)impose a much stricter islamic rule

That was what happen in Egypt , and the army took over to save the country from civil war

the Islamic scum have no borders or humanity they are what they say they are fighting for allah death to any one who does not believe but will still kill you if we do not like you

turkey is not safe for tourist keep out the turkey government will not act but hide .

it looks like cynic as done the same how can any one say they no nothing at the evil they are doing yet cynic hides and says no nothing give me evidence you can not make it up . lets have a whip round and send cynic to kobane

excel . the Islamic leaders have said they will take more hostages from near by countries . turkey is dangerous for any tourist no matter what part of turkey they are in the government will not protect tourists