Paphitis wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:
Has it never occurred to you that when you look at this Turkish nationalistic nonsense, you are actually looking in a mirror and seeing how the fundamentalist Greek nationalist claptrap that fills this forum appears to an outsider?
Yes I do Tim.
Not that there is anything wrong with being Nationalistic, but when Greeks start pointing fingers you got to laugh.
For crying out loud, Greece had an entire invented and romanticized false history such as the Underground Schools during Ottoman Times which were run by the Church and the legendary dance off the cliffs. It was false and the Church was in bed with the Ottomans all that time, but the text books never mentioned this because textbooks are manipulated by the same Church.
You got to wonder.
So, according to you, claiming that there were underground church schools during Ottoman times, something not 100% false but not 100% the way they are described to school children, it's something "you got to wonder" and "invented romanticized false history" which makes you "cry out loud".
Well, imagine if our children were presented the following as facts:
The following are tidbits I could find from "La Turquie en Europe (Paris 1988)", a book written by a former president of Turkey called Turgut Ozal.
This is a famous book in Turkish circles, Turgut Ozal appropriates the Greeks of Asia Minor as a Turkish Anatolian civilization, and continuously asserts that Homer was a Turk called Omer, and Macedonians were not Greek but seperate people and calls Aristotle and Alexander non Greeks. This is basically promoting the agenda of them and their friends.
"Homer
our compatriot initiated in Anatolia, in the ninth century B.C. that which one would later call 'the Greek miracle"
"The comparison of the
Anatolian poets and philosophers
with the Greeks - between 900 and 500 A.D. -shows clearly that the appearance of Homer in Anatolia was not fortuitous.
"For three centuries Asia Minor - and above all Ionia and the Aegean isles- gave to the world, following Homer, a pleiade of poets who were all
the creators of a separate genre to the Greek."
Now, of course the British help their long-term allies further the reach of humdrum bullshit lies that everything that happens in Asia Minor, called Anatolia by the Turks, is Turkish
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