Re: Expansionist ambitions of the Turkish ultranationalism

"Platanos" <no_turan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:fieeqs$i5i$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Allotrios wrote:
>> In article 
>> <ee8b394f-3261-49f6-8474-23f80168c438@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ali

>> Asker pasa_asker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

Welcome to the club of half Turks, Kyrie Platano!!!

And oh! An afterthought...

Did you ever find out know who your father was BTW?
-- 
choronik
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