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by Vasileios Meichanetsidis •
June 22, 2019 at 1:30 pm
- "Greek
settlements in Asia Minor date as far back as the 11th century
BC when Greeks emigrated from mainland Greece." -- Asia
Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center
- Today, less than
half a percent of Turkey's population is Christian.
- The hostility of the
Turkish people in Anatolia seems the result of having been
indoctrinated with false information since childhood.
Ironically, many Turks who harbor ill will towards Greeks are
most likely of Greek origin and are actually insulting no one
but their own Greek ancestors and themselves.
Ekrem
Imamoglu. Since his now-refuted election as mayor of Istanbul, many
Turkish nationalists have been denigrating him for being of
"Greek" or "Pontic Greek" origin.
Photo:YouTube/Screenshot.
A key issue in Turkey today is the "redo"
of the mayoral election in Istanbul, slated for June 23. The first
municipal election was held on March 31, but Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan refused to accept its result – the loss of his
ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate to that of the
opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).
The CHP victor was Ekrem Imamoglu, originally from
Trabzon, a city in the heartland of the historically Greek region
of Pontos on the Black Sea coast in northeast Asia Minor. Since
Imamoglu's now-refuted election as mayor of Istanbul, many Turkish
nationalists have been denigrating him for being of
"Greek" or "Pontic Greek" origin.
At a public gathering on May 15, for instance,
Mehmet Tevfik Göksu, the mayor of Esenler, said:
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