You Know your TURK when:   you've lived in Broadmeadows or Dandenong 
You Know your TURK when:   you have at least one relative that lives in Mildura or Shepparton 
You Know your TURK when:   your family or relatives owns a restaurant on Sydney road 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents pronounce Brunswick as Branzvik 
You Know your TURK when:   you know where "Ford'un arkasi" or "Corum parki" is 
You Know your TURK when:   your dad has 3 or more bottles of Raki stashed away somewhere in the house 
You Know your TURK when:   your dad's favorite English insult it "Blady poofta!" 
You Know your TURK when:   you argue with your Greek friends about if Turks or Greeks invented kebabs 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents watch the 'Ibo Show' or 'Kara Melek' 
You Know your TURK when:   your father used to work at the Ford factory 
You Know your TURK when:   your father now is a Taxi driver or owns a Restaurant 
You Know your TURK when:   you are forbidden to speak English at home but speak Anglo-Turkish e.g. 
You Know your TURK when:   You Know your TURK when:   "Mom ben tonight disari cikmak istiyorum" (this is especially true for Cypriot Turks) 
You Know your TURK when:   you have watched all the Kemal Sunal movies and think they are hilarious 
You Know your TURK when:   you are 24 years old and still living with your parents 
You Know your TURK when:   you always bet money on Turkey in a soccer match even if they are playing Brazil
You Know your TURK when:   your name ends with han, kan, tan 
You Know your TURK when:   you can speak perfect Turkish even though you have lived in Australia all your life
You Know your TURK when:   you are an adult and your mother still thinks she can bash you
You Know your TURK when:   your parents pronounce Coburg as Koburk
You Know your TURK when:   your name rhymes with your brothers and sisters names
You Know your TURK when:   your parents pronounce Thursday as Turzdey
You Know your TURK when:   your mother can cook at least four different kinds of dolma
You Know your TURK when:   your dad drinks a bottle of wine every day
You Know your TURK when:   you brag to your friends about how your great grand father shot dead 50 skips in Galipoli
You Know your TURK when:   you learnt to dance the Zeybek by watching your drunken relatives at a friends wedding
You Know your TURK when:   at least one of your aunts or uncles is married to an Albanian, Bosnian or a Bulgarian
You Know your TURK when:   you think kick boxing is the Turkish national sport
You Know your TURK when:   you go out with a Turkish girl, your parents automatically think that you're going to marry her
You Know your TURK when:   your mother thinks that all Australians are uncultured, convict, pigs with no respect for anyone
You Know your TURK when:   you have at least three evil eye beads (Nazar boncuk) hanging over your doors in the house or hanging on the rear view mirror in the car
You Know your TURK when:   you don't know half the people on your dad's side but know everyone on your mothers side of the family
You Know your TURK when:   your parent's friends always confuse you with your older brother/sister
You Know your TURK when:   your parents want you to go to University just so they can show off to their friends
You Know your TURK when:   if you think that Turkey is still a world power
You Know your TURK when:   if your great grand mother was from Russia or Greece
You Know your TURK when:   when your mum gets really angry at you she says "agzina sicayim!" (i'm not going to translate that)
You Know your TURK when:   if you think that Galatasaray is the best soccer team in Europe
You Know your TURK when:   if your uncle has been arrested for shooting a rifle in the air at your sisters wedding
You Know your TURK when:   if your grandmother rubbed Raki on you when you were sick
You Know your TURK when:   your father thinks he knows everything and there is no way you can win an argument with him even if you are 100% right
You Know your TURK when:   when you were 14 years old you used to stop fasting so you could go to day time Metro
You Know your TURK when:   you went to learn folk dancing on Saturdays when you were young 
You Know your TURK when:   you are an adult and your parents still expect you to kiss the hands of visitors (misafir) 
You Know your TURK when:   you go on mIRC 24/7 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents belong to a dernek 
You Know your TURK when:   you passed Turkish school with out doing any work because your Turkish teacher is a family friend 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents still buy Turkish music on cassettes instead of CD 
You Know your TURK when:   you have an account with every single free Internet service provider 
You Know your TURK when:   someone in your family is a panel beater 
You Know your TURK when:   you have an Optus SIM card [7pm - 12am] (yahudi time) 
You Know your TURK when:   your Baba hangs out in the Kahve (Cafe) with his friend's playing cards or Okay 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents used to make you go to the Bakal (shop) to buy a newspaper when you were 5 years old 
You Know your TURK when:   your mother used to hit you when you were small to make you stop crying.. I still don't understand that one 
You Know your TURK when:   you ever got really angry with someone and said something stupid like "gotunu sikerim lan ibne!" and than you thought 'if I did that wouldn't that make me an ibne too?' 
You Know your TURK when:   your father or uncle buys smashed cars, fixes them up and sells them for twice the money he spent on them 
You Know your TURK when:   your parents play tattslotto or as they call it "totto 
You Know your TURK when:   you have never paid money for a program or game for your computer, instead you just borrow it from your friends or just get it burnt 
You Know your TURK when:   when you were small you used to egg peoples houses that gave you 20 cents for Bayram 
You Know your TURK when:   when it's Bayram and you go to someone's house and they offer you lollies, you take a handful


