(October 10, 2011 at 3:25 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: However, blood is not a piece of clothing that you throw away.
And for that matter, I can tell you that there were turkish speaking greeks in Turkey, yet even though they didn't know how to speak greek, they still used the greek alphabet, referred to themselves as greeks, married only amongst their own, and were christians, not muslims.
It was almost too easy to distinguish them from the local Turkish population(in my native Konya region, especially Karaman), since they didn't dress like Turks, did eat pork, and did not even circumcize their young, like all Turks do. But they spoke only Turkish. Those were luckily sent along with the other greeks during the population exchange.
Even if you do not speak your own language anymore, you still do actually retain knowledge about who you really are. Those turcophone greeks have not forgotten who they were, and are now some of the leading nationalists in Greece.
In Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece a hundred years ago religion rather than language was the ethnic divide. Muslims in those areas regarded themselves as Turks, Christians as Greeks, Armenians or Bulgarians.
The population exchanges which occurred between Turkey and Greece in the 1920s sent Turkish speaking Christians to Greece and Greek speaking Muslims to Turkey.
Quote:I still maintain my position that the majority of this country is compromised from the descendants of the original Oghuz Turks, and the supplementary Kipchaks, and other Turks such as Uyghurs who came to this country after the republic was founded.
Genetic studies say otherwise, the Azeris and Turks are more related genetically to their neighbors than with other Turkic peoples. Much the same with the Hungarians who are quite closely related genetically with Czechs, Slovaks and Poles than with their cultural cousins.
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