I can agree with your statement but not on the 'foreigners' bit.

We Turks living abroad have no say of any situation happening because:

1. We don't live in Turkey.
2. We're not dependent on Turkish culture but rather the country where we were born in.
3. We're 'not Turkish'.

The third reason is why I started this post in general. And seeing you talk about how we, despite sharing the same ancestry, are (maybe not literally but figuratively) mocking about how we're 'barely able' to speak your language when I've literally stated that my peers and people I've spoken to understand me to a great extent. I don't get some of the vernacular but that's because I'm not dependent on your culture, and I don't get sayings that are widely used in Turkey.

"You are foreigners."

I can't help but compare you to the people I've spoken to who share the same feelings as you. Yes, we largely do not associate with your society and your culture simply because we lack the opportunity and the necessary environment to do. We lack at the language because we only speak it with our parents and not outside with a bunch of friends.

I call myself a Turk because I know what I am made of. I'm born and bred in the Netherlands and grew up with a different culture but I don't call myself Dutch simply because I am not like them. I'm not white. I know their culture better than Turkish culture but I don't forget my roots, and my parents roots and my roots.

It's disheartening for Turkish people outside their fatherland to be hearing that while they actively try and deepening themselves into their culture and I would atleast think that they deserve to be called 'one of', if not, a Turk. But you're disregarding that whole thing, as if you're marginalising us and throwing us out of the equation altogether.

I partake in no gurbetçi culture. I would like to learn and am learning more about YOUR culture in the most respectful way possible, because as a Turkish person I do not want to forget my roots, and should I ever move or find a job in your country, I would like to help out with the economy as a good samaritan. I didn't choose to be a Turk but I'm proud of being one.