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[insan]

I didn't know that Zeibeks have such a historical background.



GROUP OF XEIBECKS; a tribe of mountaineers inhabiting the mountain section inland from Smyrna. They are bold, reckless, rather brutal men, famous for their marauding expeditions, in which they plunder indiscriminately Moslem as well as Christian villages. In the Russo-Turkish war, numbers of them were taken into Bulgaria, where they committed the most atrocious outrages.




Başı Büzzügler.

GROUP OF MOUNTAINEERS FROM CENTRAL ASIA MINOR These are not as fierce, although fully as brave as the Xeibecks. They form a considerable element in what are known as the Bashi-Bozouks, or irregular troops of the Turkish army. They are pure-blooded Turks, stalwart, powerful men.



These must be the ancestors of irregulars of EOKA-B

http://www.armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/05-kurds.html

[T_C]

What are they trying to say? That Zeybeks were Kurds?!?

[Dr J]

Başı Büzzügler. Laughing

GROUP OF MOUNTAINEERS FROM CENTRAL ASIA MINOR These are not as fierce, although fully as brave as the Xeibecks. They form a considerable element in what are known as the Bashi-Bozouks, or irregular troops of the Turkish army. They are pure-blooded Turks, stalwart, powerful men.



These must be the ancestors of irregulars of EOKA-B

...and not the Turkish army who raped and murdered countless innocent Cypriots?

moron!

[Dr J]

What are they trying to say? That Zeybeks were Kurds?!? Confused Rolling Eyes

Isnt that what Turkey calls the Kurds? 'Mountain Turks'?

[T_C]

Stupid! So because Kurds lived in mountains this means the Zeybeks were Kurdish? Hmmm, ok...

[Nikitas]

"In the Russo-Turkish war, numbers of them were taken into Bulgaria, where they committed the most atrocious outrages. "

Now I get it! All those atrocities we learned about in history at school in England, the ones the books said were committed by Turks were all done by the Zeibeks. Convenient!

[Dr J]

Stupid! Rolling Eyes So because Kurds lived in mountains this means the Zeybeks were Kurdish? Hmmm, ok...

Well isnt that what Turkey calls the Kurds? 'Mountain Turks'?

End of the day I havent seen any real evidense that they are not. Turkey's policy of rewriting history and not allowing ethnic minorities (i.e. everyine must be a Turk...great!) means you dont really know if they were or werent unless you have evidense that they were direct dissendents of the Seljuk Turks.