Just found this

http://travel.msn.com//Guides/...id=1003838>1=41000

The hole on that "Turkish toilet" looks awfully small, or else the foot marks are awfully large. I'm thinking this type of facility was not designed with IBD folks in mind. Japan and Bejing, on the other hand, man! I might have to visit Asia just to try out those high-tech johns!

I'd hate to be the one to clean that turkish toilet after I'd used it.

I just thought of this... my brother is ridiculous about "holding" his BMs so as not to use a public toilet. When we were younger, he would hold it for an entire week during summer camp. In college, when he was in a dorm, he held it for so long that it got to a point that he couldn't go when he tried.

He is in the airforce and was stationed in Turkey for a while. I'm guessing that he avoided those Turkish toilets and stuck to the ones on base

Just back from Japan. Fantastic toilets! Especially for us J pouchers - wonderful extra noise button, heated seat, wash (front OR back!) dry and deodoriser... heaven!

Funnily enough they had a number of squat toilets too, but I managed to avoid them - how does anyone keep their clothes clean and dry using one? My trousers are always touch the filthy floor and as directional control is not my strong point, I too would pity the cleaner! Yeugh!

I've been to Japan 6 times and love it. But, the first time I went in 1983, I had to use one of those squat toilets.....I had no clue how to use it without getting my clothes soiled so I just took off my pants, underwear etc....what a sight that must have been. An experience for sure!
Judy

Where's the grab bar for the squat toilets? I have horrible balance and the thought of having to squat and balance would terrify me enough to hold things in just a little longer.

I am not wanting to go to Japan anymore!

Oh and the link in the OP is broke!

Hope this helps . .

I move to France at age 23 with a fully funtional K pouch...and discoverd the turkish toilet alive and well and living in Paris..try balancing/squatting/intubating/irrigating and not dunking body parts where no woman should ever go!
There were very few normal ones and they were filthier! The worst???? there was one on the landing of my apt..no funcioning toilet inside...so I invented the...chamber pot! I did my nasty in a plastic basin and then walked to the toidy and spilled it all in...until my boss showed up one day while I was 'busy'...end of story??? the pot went out onto the window ledge..then I slammed the window shut.... ...lots of shouting in the fancy Café downstairs ....I ended up doubled over with laughter for half and hour!
Sharon

There was a Turkish toilet in the restaurant we had lunch at in Murano, Italy in 2007. Both my husband and I emerged from the facilities with rather amazed and quizzical expressions. This was one of the more "ancient" types, that was all concrete, no porcelain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet

Also interesting was the toilets on the trains in Europe that just emptied straight onto the tracks (yes, even in first class). Look in the toilet and you see the tracks whizzing by. That is why it is considered rude to use the toilet while the train is stopped in the station.

Jan

For us K pouchers and those with outside bags..the danger is loosing your material down to the tracks during a rather bumpy ride! Been there and it is rather scary!
by the way Jan...that was one fancy turkish toilet! The ones hear look more like the hole from Hell with a raised footprint on either side and the stench of the dead in the middle...beware of the rats popping up and biting your privates!
And yes, no toilet paper!
Sharon