• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      Benda duymadim. The closest thing I've found is:

      When the axe came into the forest, the trees said "the handle is one of us"
      or
      Balta ormana girdiğinde ağaçların çoğu, “Hiç değilse sap bizden biri” dedi.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees

      But the only reference to it being a Turkish proverb is from Domination and Power in Guyana: A Study of the Police in a Third World Context By George K. Danns, 1982.