Re: Expansionist ambitions of the Turkish ultranationalism

Allotrios wrote:
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> Ali Asker pasa_asker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Turks minority were the lowest of the low in the old ottoman empire
>> where they were treated like a dirt that is why most of the ottoman
>> enemy states called them repeatedly turks to anger the sultan.
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> Turks were a minority in the Ottoman Empire? So what was the majority?

If I got it right then the majority were Muslims who spoke Turkish. Some 
of them were originally Bulgarians, other Serbs etc.
If we mean with Turk, Turkic Mongols, they were the minority.
I was talking with a Kurd 2 weeks ago and he suggested that about 20 
million Turks are actually Kurds and that he knows one Kurd her who 
claims to be a Turk.
His comment was: " I can understand why a Kurd in Turkey would claim to 
be a Turk but here? ".
Life is easier if you are a " Turk " in Turkey then a Kurd, Assyrian, 
Armenian etc.
 From the moment " Turks " in Turkey can freely talk about " Turkisness 
you will se how quick the numbers of Turks will shrink.
I don't think that Turkey has more then 30 million Turks and half bloods 
are included in those numbers.