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Formal and Informal Greetings
Turkish transcript:
Türkiye’de selamlaşmalardan bahsetmek istiyorum. Türkiye’de yaş farkı ve statü farkı çok önemlidir. O yüzden sizden büyük biriyle selamlaşırken eğer sizden çok çok büyükse yaşlı bir kişiyse elini öpersiniz, ya da statü olarak sizden yukardaysa, bir öğretmeninizse, profesörse ya da müdürünüzse elini sıkarsınız ve kullandığınız kelimeler değişir. Genelde Türkiye’de insanlar birbirlerine ‘merhaba’ diyerek selamlaşır. Ama eğer insanlar birbirlerini iyi tanıyorlarsa ‘merhaba’ dedikten sonra ‘naber’, ‘nasılsın’, ‘ne var ne yok’ gibi sorular sorulabilir. Eğer insanlar birbirlerini çok iyi tanımıyorlarsa veya karşınızdaki sizden yaşlı ya da statü olarak sizden yüksek biriyse ‘nasılsınız’ kelimesini kullanırsınız. Ki Türkçe’de bir resmi olarak kullanılan bir ‘sen’ ifadesi de var, yani ‘siz’ deriz biz, o yüzden sizden farklı bir statüye sahipse karşınızdaki ya da çok iyi tanımıyorsanız, yeni tanıştığınız biriyse ‘siz’ kelimesini daha çok kullanırsınız.
Bunun dışında insanlar selamlaşırken tokalaşırlar. Dediğim gibi çok yaşlı bir kişiyle selamlaşıyorsanız, elini öpebilirsiniz. Bunun dışında aynı cinsten olan insanlar da birbirlerini yanaklarından öperler, erkekler de kadınlar da. Bazen erkekle kadın çok iyi tanışıyorsa onlar da birbirlerini yanaklarından öpebilirler Ama genelde erkek ve kadın birbirini çok iyi tanımıyorsa, yanaktan öpüşmeyi tercih etmezler sadece el sıkışırlar.

English translation:
I want to talk about greetings in Turkey. Age difference and status difference is very important in Turkey. That’s why, when you are greeting someone much, much older than you, if s/he is an old person, you would kiss her/his hand, or if s/he is higher in status than you, if s/he is your teacher, your professor, or your manager, you would shake his/her hand and the words you use will change.
Usually in Turkey, people would greet each other by saying “hello.” But if people know each other well, after saying “hello,” they would ask questions such as “what’s up?,” “how are you?,” “What are you up to?” If people don’t know each other very well or if the person across from you is older than you or if s/he is higher in rank/status than you would use the word [sentence], “How are you?”

In fact, in Turkish there is another expression for “you” [the informal form of address] used in a formal sense, we would say “you” [the polite form of address]. That’s why if the person in front of you has a different status than you or if you don’t know him/her very well, if it is someone you just met then you would use “you” [the polite form] more often.

Other than this people would shake hands when they are greeting each other. As I said, if you are greeting someone much older than you, than you can kiss his/her hand. Other than this, people from the same gender would kiss each other on their cheeks, both men and women. Sometimes if the men and the women know each other well, then they can kiss each other on both cheeks. But usually if the men and the women don’t know each other well, they would not prefer to kiss on the cheeks, they would only shake hands.

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