Turkey (( * wrote:While you people moan all the time with Turkey "occupying" your countries and "torturing" you, let me moan about my own country!! Can anybody tell me what was happening before the Turkish Independence War?? We shed soo much blood for our country, we fought against the Italians, the French, The British, The Greeks!! These countries even signed a treaty dividing Turkey between themselves and leaving only Ankara for the Turks!! The Western countries have done this to us!! Why should we listen to what the Western countries say, after these things??? There is no reason!! Next superpower isn't Europe, it isn't USA!! We keep good relations with Asia and in a few decades, Europe will be like Asia ten years ago, with no power!!Don't you agree?? Or do you still believe that "the sick man of the world", Europe, will get better??
O Come on... Turkey has a far less than glorious past... Lets not forget about things like the Armenian holocaust... as must as it is denied it still happened. and theres is also what was done to the Pontian Greeks in a similar manner to the Armenians. Also what happened in Smyrni (Izmir), a city full of Greeks until the Turkish revolution hit it, burning it down and it's people forced to leave. Greece had to take in over one million refugees thanks to the way Greeks were treated in Asia Minor (with no thanks to the ethnic cleansing treaty of Lausanne)... but it doesn't stop there... there are things like the progroms against the Greeks of Istanbul leading to their eventual expulsion, even though the treaty of Lausanne said Greeks could stay there... not to mention the closing of the theological school of Halki, the bombs thrown at the Patriarchate. Oh, and the flying over of Greek airspace in the Aegean.
I'm not saying there is no anti-Turkishness in Greece, there definently is (and I highly disagree with such an attitude), but you make it seem like Turkey is a victim, when it is totally not.
