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Cusine

Türk mutfağı konusundaki çalışmalarınızı izliyorum.Devamını ve asla pes etmemenizi dileriz.Yardıma ihtiyacınız olduğunda lütfen bildirin.Selam. Must^TC 11:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:

Saolun. Bu işe çok tesadüfen bulaştım. Elimden geldiğince aklıma gelenleri eklemeye çalışıyorum. Ara ara göz atarak ve bazı malum kişilerce yapılan abuk sabuk edit'lerle resmen "mücadele" ederek bir şeyler yaptım-yapıyoruz bakalım. Siz de arkadaşlarınıza ilgilenenlere söyleyin, mutfağa meraklı olanlar arada birkaç bir şey eklesinler, yanlışları düzeltsinler vs. Yoksa iş bazı fanatiklere kalıyor ne yazık ki. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Z y (talk • contribs) 13:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Greek cuisine

Zy, iyi günler... As you know, I think it is important to have a neutral, balanced article on Greek cuisine, which neither denies the importance of the Ottoman heritage nor neglects other influences. Your most recent edits make sense to me (the text that the previous editor added was part of a discussion copied from Talk, not intended to go into the article), but your Edit summaries are rather aggressive and sarcastic, which I don't think is the most constructive way to improve the article: "one catches more flies with honey than with vinegar". Looking forward to cooperating with you on this and other articles, --Macrakis 22:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Lokma and Lokum

Thank you for noticing the typo in the etymology of lokma. However, instead of deleting the whole etymology, you could have just corrected "lokum" to "lokma", which would have made the rest of the etymology correct. I have added more information on the etymology, which clarifies the relationship between the two -- in fact, the words both come from the same Arabic root, even though the foods are very different; one is a singular, the other a plural. This is confirmed by both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish reference sources. I've cited the Ottoman Turkish one in the text. --Macrakis 00:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)