by detailer » Tue May 17, 2005 4:32 pm
ARCHILLES,
yes you are mixing oranges and apples.
First of all, you are defining turkish wrongly. In modern times, turkish doesnt mean a mongolian tribe. It means poeple who speak Turkish and have some common cultural bacground, generally moderate muslim, also limitedly affected by old turkic culture and race.
As a Turkish Cypriot I dont look like a Mongolian but more like an Albanian probably which is completely ok.
It is completely ridiculous to say that Turklsh in western Trace well joined to the rest of the society. They have suffered a lot especially until 90ties. They havent been allowed to repair their own houses. Their leader died in a car "accident". They have been forced to study Turkish books left from 50ties. Now because of EU, they are relatively better.
Even today, it is forbidden to use "Turkish" in the name of any society name in an EU country. They are forced to accept that they are "greek muslims!!!" if such a thing ever existed in the history.
But your point lies in one sentence. "They are the result of ottoman invasion". Yes, turkish are living in cyprus and istanbul because of ottoman invasion too. That is a fact and another fact is that most of the pople living in the world today live there because of some invasion. You need to digest that.
And a thing called "Kurdistan" was never there
since the ancient times. They always joined to the society next to them.
To the turkish if they are in anotolia, to the persians if persia ....
Please tell me there are how many Turkish person who are in high positions in Greece.
The leader of these people died in a car "accident".
It is ridiculous to say that turkish and gree
