Re: Expansionist ambitions of the Turkish ultranationalism

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Ali Asker pasa_asker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 26 Nov, 17:31, tur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:40:06 +0200, Platanos <no_tu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wrote:
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> > >If I got it right then the majority were Muslims who spoke Turkish.
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> > you don't get it right because you're a dumb****
> >
> > you should educate yourself before prentending to be smart
> >
> > the official language of the ottoman empire was "osmanli"
> 
> This is exactly what I am trying to put across. Ottomans weren't
> Turks, There are no evidences what so ever suggest that even the
> people called turks existed in Ottoman Empire. There were few
> Turkomans who were the remains of the past invation by the Mongolian
> tribes but they were so few that they had no authority at all. Every
> single Greeks, Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians etc, understand that after
> the fall of the Ottoman Empire few Devsirmes (people who have no past
> records, stolen children from the invaded lands by the muslims) called
> themselves Turks in order to made themselves in belonging to some
> race. But latter assuming or forcing to make everyone in asia-minor
> Turks and trying to give them a false culture, language or a history
> which have nothing to do with the realities of Anatolia make everyone
> angry.
> 

Very interesting! I will have to look more into it. This may explain the
great 
diversity in the appearence of Turkish people.