Piratis wrote:shahmaran wrote:insan wrote:shahmaran wrote:I don't think they are thought wrong insan, I think they just choose to ignore certain facts of history for their convenience.
Surely the great civilised European Greeks would not teach wrong history on purpose would they?
shahmaran, they have nothing to ignore because their ancestors skipped all the essential facts and invented totally artificial history text-books for the new generations. A kind of false nation building process, i guess.
144 Turks also intermarried with Greeks and Georgians. Greek sources style the offspring of such unions mixovarvaroi. "Though this phenomenon of intermarriage and the appearance of a new generation of mixovarvaroi is only briefly mentioned by the sources, one must assume that it was no rare or isolated occurrence. These mixovarvaroi suffered occasionally from a dichotomy of political sympathy and allegiance, but in the long run their appearance in Anatolia resulted in a process that favored the growth of the Muslim population at the expense of the Christian population, because Muslim society dominated politically and militarily. It is interesting, but unprofitable, to speculate about what would have happened to the Anatolian mixovarvaroi under different political circumstances" (DMH p. 176). Vryonis continues elsewhere: "There is every reason to suppose that intermarriage took place rather extensively from the very beginning of the Turkish occupation of Anatolia and for several centuries thereafter. Anna Comnena speaks of the offspring of such unions as mixovarvaroi, and the twelfth-century Balsamon refers to their curious practises. When the Greek historian Nicephorus Gregoras passed through Bithynia en route to Nicaea in the middle of the fourteenth century, just one generation after the conquest of Nicaea, he observed that the population consisted of Greeks, mixovarvaroi (Graeco-Turks), and Turks. Thus intermarriage of Muslim and Christians at every level of society played a very important role in the integration and absorption of the Greek Christian element into Muslim society" (DMH pp. 228-29). The Turkish-language equivalent of mixovarvaroi may have been ikdish, signifying a gelding or cross-bred animal, particularly a mule. See PT pp. 192-93.
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What a shame that they do need such process...
But most people here are old enough to be grandfathers, shouldn't they know better?
The quote of insan refers to Asia Minor, not to Cyprus. You really didn't tell us anything new. The so called Turks have really very little to do with the original Turks. Why they call themselves Turks only themselves know.
Here is how real Turks look like:
How many of you look like that?
You obviously have no idea and have totally lost the plot on your rampage to find a substantial ad hominem argument to support your repetitive and equally false claims about history and our past.
If you knew ANYTHING about the Turks you would know that the Turkic people are spread out to a VERY wide area (much larger than the Hellen's ever were) and come in all sorts of shapes, colors and sizes so there is no such thing as the "real Turk". That's the most idiotic thing you have said for quite some time.
Briefly, this is how it goes.
The girls in the photo are probably Turkmen's or Kazakh's since they are more likely to have Asian featured eyes.
We on the other hand, are of Seljuk origin who dominated Anatolia as the Seljuk Empire, mixing greatly with everyone who came by.
You should also know that as opposed to the popular Greek misconception that we are Mongolians (!!), at some point in history the Greeks and the Seljuk's did fight together
against the Mongolians AND
against the Latins.
Which was followed by the Beylik era of the Turks where the individual principalities had spread all around Anatolia.
It was from one of these where the Ottoman family arouse and that's when shit started raining down on everyone.
The Ottoman family was expelled from Turkey just before the declaration of the Republic, hence why we are NOT Ottomans anymore and don't want much to do with them as they led the population to hell towards the end and decided to side with the Europeans just to save their rich asses. (
Pissing Ataturk off pretty bad who left them with nothing but 2000 pounds each before expelling them to their beloved Europe. Basically they never believed that the Europeans could have been beaten.
So if you want to cry about your 600 year oppression then go find some Ottomans who care, because we don't!
But of course the fact that you are an absolute moron and a total historical cripple, this would all be splitting hairs for you and you would want to ignore all these details purposefully so that you can keep on insisting that we are just Mongolian barbaric invaders who came out of no where to take your lands and have no real place here.
Because all this is probably too much for you to calculate in order to conclude that we don't belong in Cyprus.
Or how else can your silly argument ever survive?
And you are not likely to change your tune anytime soon either, so this is when old age comes in while logic and reasoning goes out of the window.
Oh and don't forget to add a touch of "democracy" in there too