Oracle wrote:SKI-preo wrote:"Greeks" are not very good at PR, re DTA. I find it interesting that Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have similar rates of Thalassemia which is a disease recorded since antiquity that is to say before 1571 AD. Anatolian Turks & kalamaraes do not have nearly as much Thalassemia. In the mix, Turkish Cypriots must have native Cypriot Genes. I've at least 5 who had one grand parent of "Greek" cypriot ancestry. I've met some who are Christian have Turkish names and his parents speak better Greek than they do mainland Turkish. I think it is not so clear cut.
Rates of Thalassemia are subject to the environment (e.g. distance from Africa) and this trait is one of those relatively rapidly acquired survival characteristics which is not an accurate reflection of ancestral kinship.
Be careful when you speak about genes and trying to link them to 'race' as there is only one race of humans. We have yet to find another. Genetically we are all the same (that includes the variations such as blue/brown eyes, pigmentation of skin etc). The most you can do is use DNA markers (not genes) to trace migratory patterns and the larger studies which take account of modern demographics do not support the politics of Turkish desires.
We cannot abandon/deny our Hellenistic roots just to assist the Turks' efforts to eliminate all traces of our cultural identity and existence.
Don't be so stupid, that was done when they controlled Greece for 400 years if there was any left by then. Hellenism is dead and buried only delusion left and only in few.
