I've been to Turkey twice and the tourist guide said, that the Turkish don't usually fight. They go straight to stabbing..
Hmm, your tourist guide is really familiar with Turkey.Yes, thats correct, unfortunately we have unciviliazed human beings.In anatolia there are family murders(much that the police cannot handle it anymore).Like many year before, a guys brother killed another family's member.Then after many years pass, they came back for revenge and the parents support this in anatolia.
Let me give you an example from my life:
My friend and I were walking in the street,
and my friend had an ear ring.He was sort of emo.
A guy came up and said
"Why do you wear that ear ring?"
My friend said:
"I'll wear what I want"
The guy:
"Why do you have long hair?Are you a girl?"
My friend said:
"Look, Hz.Muhammed had long hair and he had ear rings too"
The guy:
"Uh, I'm sorry.You are not bad as I though.My bad"
And the guy walked away.
(the guy wanted to beat him up.But our belief in religion is very strong)
But the thing is our police is x2 tough then our civilians.So its balanced.There were a news about our police beating people so hard .And the America was furious about this and stuff... etc.You cant even imagine a fight between an angry Turkish mob and turkish police...
Well back to topic now.