House manners

ahiska.club was created to keep in the digital world all that is best and most precious in the Ahıska Turks: culture, traditions, knowledge and memory. Here we behave as one behaves in the elders’ home.

1. I
   Respect and courtesy

   We speak as we would with elders at one table. We argue about the matter, never about the person.

2. II
   Outside politics and campaigning

   The house belongs to no party or movement. No campaigning, no petitions, no dividing people into camps.

3. III
   No hatred, no aggression

   Neither towards our own nor towards other peoples. Swearing, insults and threats do not get through — the message is not sent.

4. IV
   Memory and culture come first

   We write about our families, villages, language, customs — whatever is worth keeping for our children. No ads, no outside links.

5. V
   The best version of ourselves

   We help, share knowledge and give thanks. Here each of us is how the whole people is judged.

Whoever breaks the manners gets a warning; whoever does not listen gets silence, then a block by the keeper’s decision. But the point is not the bans: we call each other to be better.