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david56 | 17:36 Tue 04th Jul 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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hi can anyone out there tell me why people from from llanelli,dyfed are called turks.
i know swansea people are called jacks after a dog
that saves people from drowning but never been able to find anything about the llanelli turks,
either going to win or loose a pint or twc one this
many thanks
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hello dai , i live in llanelli but don't know the answer try here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/yoursay/t opics/askalocal.shtml
Dyfed ... that's no more ... isn't is Carmarthenshire now?
Was it something to do with Turkish POWs who were put to work at Llanelli docks, and stayed behind after their release?
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many thanks
prisners it is
When I was very young-about 50 years ago- I was told that the people of Swansea started calling us Llanelli people Turks because the local brewery(Buckleys)had a logo showing a Welsh druid drinking from a cornucopia(horn of plenty)( rams horn)which to the ignorant Swansea Jacks looked like a Turkish dagger and that Llanelli people were a load of back stabbers.
I dont think this is true but just a bit of banter on rugby match days.
in the past LLanelli did a lot of trading with the Turkish. Llanelli had a large tinplate and steel industry as well as agriculture and traded from it local docks to various countries but through the years the dock was closed and the industries closed and a lot of turkish traders stayed here
mostly trading but also as the turkish pow's were put to work at our docks
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thanks all, ronaldalfred i dont realy think the jacks would call us back stabbers ;-) so im going for jo-kirky pows again many thanks
Avoiding intense speculation, and after long conversations with several elderly residents of Llanelli, it appears that the most plausible theory entails a George Best look-alike, Nigerian King who was exiled from Anatolia, during a tribal ritual after a rather nasty encounter with a fox, or maybe a wolf, while postulating wild theories surrounding scars and knife crime.

It is also widely claimed, that during his stay in Llanelli, King Tutma Bunnion II would often channel his pain through his saz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt3K0baKWAg

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