zan wrote:Nikitas wrote:Superior nation, as in a better state of being than an Ottoman serf, sure, why not? Without such aspirations no nation moves forward. That is how the United States came into being, and most of the republics of the world who threw off colonial rule.
As for being direct descendants of Byzantine Greeks, well you have the records of the Ottoman empire itself as proof. They are detailed and since they are tax related record all kinds of data and prove beyond all doubt the continuity of birth, death, property devolution from the Byzantine era till the liberation.
There is also Greek language and culture in Italy, an area the Italians call Magna Grecia, Greater Greece, where the continuity is from the pre Byzantine era, and you know what, their 2000 year old dialect sounds a lot like Cypriot dialect proving that there is traceable continuity from even before the Byzantines.
Should Turkey then have aspirations to all the Turkic nations then Nikitas.
Are you sure the majorities of those other nations think of themselves as Turks and want to join Turkey? I am sure if they wanted to they would.