Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Happy Bayram to all especially Soner for starting such a brilliant forum, your efforts into making this a wonderful forum to take over where 44 left off are really appreciated, long may it carry on being such a useful source of information for us all, and growing at the speed at is can only get better, so thank you Soner and take today of to enjoy your bayram with your family!

Iyi bayramlar everyone.

My sentiments exactly. Happy Bayram everyone and lets hope this Forum keeps the way it is and the "nasties" stay away. PS: I had a quick look on Embargoed yesterday, oh dearie me, deteriorating fast IMHO.

its good you know you can have a look on here for info without having to wade through loads slanging matches

Thanks Barbieb. Could not have done it without great Moderators and members.
Bayramınız kutlu olsun.

May Bayram be good for you all.

One odd thing this year. For 16 years since I have been here I have known this religious holiday as "Kurban Bayram" (Festival of sacrifice). This year Telsim have just sent me greeting for Eid (the Arabic name)....I know the Koran was originally in Arabic and the daily prayers are in that language, but I thought that was comparable with bits of Latin , Greek and Hebrew in the Bible and Prayer Book, and Cypriots and Turks used Turkish in daily life. Is there any significance in this change of greeting?

Good question, RR. Don't know the answer, but when I have time will google. Maybe it is a slip of the pen, cos, yes, it has always been Korban Bayram and to do with sacrifice etc (even if their story is slighlty different to the Biblical one which came first - I mean, the Torah (old Testament) as opposedto Koran). Maybe it is a sign of the turkishness here. What do they call it over there! Definitely an arabic word.
However, whether Korban (and I am vegetarian) or Eid (and I speak little Arabic), it is a festival for which I wish everyone joy and happiness and hope that rain does not stop everyone playing.

By the way, everyone (as if they didn't know( will see that I am now a Mod , but one punishment is that I have lost all my stars for talking too much! Never mind, there are plenty in the sky to admire, but I promise that I will not post just to get back those stars.

Question - if I can regain my stars cos there is room, why couldn't they have been transferred. Oops, sorry, off topic.

Happy holiday folks.!!

Marion, you do not need the silly stars - you are a star yourself, I always end up having a laugh at some of your 'typos' though!

Happy holidays!

I got an "Eid" too but i didnt realise it was strange, after living in E Africa when they were all "Eids"!!
Happy Bayram to all BRS members, and everyone else on the forum, of course! Dont overdo on the sweeties!!

Just so long as you dont start another star wars Marion

Are you our new mysterious , handsome and sexy , MALE moderator? If so did you need to change gender , wasnt there a Bond GIRL to fit?

Back on topic: I would have thought changing from Turkish to Arabic was the reverse of Turkishness - that it why I found it rather strange and concerning.