Re: origins of Minoan Culture

Agamemnon wrote:

"Martin Edwards" <big_mart_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dsvl4e$q96$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Agamemnon wrote:


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In article <pYKdnTxHwdR5f3DeRVnyrw@xxxxxxxxx>, Agamemnon
<agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There was NO SUCH PLACE a Turkey until 1923 AD.



Really? You mean all those mountains and cities and such just
magically appeared during my own father's lifetime?



Those mountains and cites were not Turkey.


Wow.

The entire coast of Asia-Minor was regarded as part of Greece for
over 3,500 years.



Oh, darn it. You *don't* mean there was no such *place*, you mean
it had a different *name*.



There was no such place. Asia-Minor was regarded as part of Greece. It's culture cities and everything about it was Greek until the Turks perpetuated a mass genocide against its 20 million Christian inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century.

Balls. The Turks gradually invaded Anadolu over a period of centuries. By the time I Poli was captured in 1453 it only had a small amount of


The people living in Asia-Minor were always Greeks. The Turks were nothing more than invading NAZIS.

territory left. What the Turks did in response to the Greek invasion at the end of WWI was reprehensible; but the Venizelos government asked for


There was NO Greek invasion at the end of WW1. Asia-Minor was designated as Greek territory by the Treaty of Sevres

Balls. The treaty proposed partition, oblivious of the fact that the whole of Asia Minor had a Turkish majority unless you drew a line round every Greek neighbourhood. Be it noted that the small Turkish Orthodox population defied the patriarch to fight on the side of their fellow Turks. As Kemal had thrown the Brits and the Anzacs out of Gallipoli, the outcome could have been foreseen.

and the Turks then began
attacking Christians to continue the genocide that they had already being carrying out during WW1 and decades prior to that.

I do not condone that, but it was more reciprocal than you suggest.

The Great
Powers

blinded by Christian prejudice

then encouraged Greece to take action to uphold the treaty which
Turkey had violated.

it. A classic example of white, Christian hubris.


BULLSHIT



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