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Submitted by Kuvayi Milliye (Turkey), Aug 24, 2014 at 05:35

the fact that millions of Greeks, were murdered by the barbarian Turks

Just prove it but do it without Wikipedia. Real history and archive documents clearly prove who tried to genocide whom under what kind of circumstances. Millions and millions were systematically murdered by today they exist in millions. Your population must have been as crowded as China 600 years ago.

--- The massacre of Turks in Greece, was not an ordinary extermination that happened during war time.Entire Turkish population including women and children were taken and murdered by Greek guerillas.The only rare exception was very few women and children were enslaved.. For three days, defenseless Turkish settlers were the victims of savagery and brutality. No exception was made about gender or age. Even women and children were tortured before getting killed. The scale of the massacre was so massive that the leader of Greek guerilla forces Kolokotrones said, "after I entered to town, my feet didnt touch the ground" regarding the corpses in Tripolitza. The murders seemed systematic and planned more than just an explosion of hate against the Ottoman Empire. ( Massacre of Turks, W. Allison Philips, British Historian )

--- The Turks of Greece left few traces. They disappeared suddenly and finally in the spring of 1821, unmourned and unnoticed by the rest of the world. Upwards of 20.000 Turkish men, women and children were murdered by their Greek neighbours in a few weeks of slaughter. They were killed deliberately, without qualm and scruple. ( William St. Clair )

Greeks (your own ancestors our dear Kuvayl )

What Greeks call as the mighty Pontus "Empire" in 12th century was just a small fortified city state within a 30 km2 area with a population of less than 4500. Sultan Mehmed conquered it without a fight and sent the non-Muslim population to the Balkans. Greeks can not be the ancestor of me or anyone else since it is a religious identity, not an ethnic one.

--- Sir William Ramsay wrote another reality about the Anatolian Greek identity .Anatolian Greek identity is a concept based on religion. It is not directly a nation. Greeks managed to come together because of the Orthodox church. There is not a Greek identity in terms of a nation in Anatolia.

--- To be Greek, there is only one requirement, getting baptized by a priest in a Greek Orthodox church. Greeks are, all those indigenous people of the Greek state who believe in Christ. It is enough to be a Christian, and to be at the land where Greek army set foot or occupy it. All those aliens who come and enrol as citizens. ( Definition of Greek, The 1827 Constitution )

That is why the Greek state claims %98 ethnic "purity" today due to Orthodoxy.

--- Modern Greek identity is based on an unshakable conviction that the Greek State is ethnically homogenous. This belief, has entailed repeated and official denial of the existence of minorities which are not of "pure" Hellenic origin. The obsession with Greek racial identity involves the distortion of thousands of years of history when there was no such thing as a Greek nation state.

( Simon Mcilwaine )

Horror stories, grandma tales vs facts.

--- When a Greek's identity is in question, they can never accept the facts as they are. The Greeks lack the capacity to comprehend reality. Every Greek has an exaggerated opinion about Greeks.

( Lord Byron )

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