Who are Turks ?

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), May 12, 2009 at 10:53

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> I wonder now if we are not turks,who are said turks and where are they now.Please tell me the answer.<

They are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Turkmen ... All living in Central Asia and all preserving their original yellow race which Anatolian Turks have completely lost. And yet these full bastards and descendants of Christian and Jewish renegades boast of their pure Turkic race which they claim is purer than that of the Kazakhs , Kyrgys , Uzbeks , Turkmen so that they are entitled to rule a future Pan-Turkic empire.

The famous French archaeologist and expert on Asia Minor George Perrot writes in his recollections published in 1864 :

" Almost everywhere in the interior of Asia Minor neither Greeks know Greek nor Armenians know Armenian. Both speak only the language of their masters , i.e. Turkish, but they write it using Greek and Armenian letters respectively. Two alphabets therefore with their religion and ceremonies - this is all those two wrteched nations have managed to save from the slow and destructive influence of the Turkish conquest that spelt gloomy ruin of their freedom and their traditions. All they have preserved are these letters which they have inherited from their ancestors, although they are all applied now to express only the sounds of a foreign and hostile language. These letters seem to be the last testimony and protest against the conquest and the last symbol of the nationality that has disappeared." [ Dans prêsque tout l'intérieur de l'Asie Mineure ni les Grecs ne savent le grec ni les Armeniens l'arménien; les uns commes les autres ne parlent que la langue de leurs maîtres , le turc, mais ils l'écrivent les uns avec les lettres grecques, les autres avec les lettres arméniennes. Deux alphabets , voilà, avec leur réligion et leurs rites, tout ce que ces peuples malheureux ont réussi a derober à la lante et dure influence de la conquête , dans ce triste naufrage de leur liberté et de leurs traditions , ces lettres qu'ils avaient héritées des ancêtres, tout employées qu'elles fussent maintenant à représenter les sons d'une langue étrangère et ennemie, étaient encore comme une dernière protestation contre la conquête , comme un dernier symbole de la nationalité disparue." George Perrot, Souvenir d'un voyage en Asie Mineure , Paris 1864,p. 114 ]

>>WHo are those turks....<<

As you can see from the above - forcibly Turkified Greeks and Armenians ... or "kaba türkler" - the illiterate brutes despised by the Osmanli educated circles.

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