Why do we put up with Turks?

[mete]

Petros Houhoulis would like to have a word with you.

Who is he?

[Tigranes]

Who is he?

You will see...

[Dorian]

Perhaps, because we are also human beings. Isn't this enough? Genociding 80 millions of people doesn't sound reasonable at this age.

Imagine thinking about exterminating 80 millions of Turks for their ideals. They sound mad.

[Turxanthus]

Greeks,
I have recently come across some reports from Byzantine sources that shocked me while reading. You worthless Hellenoscums were obviously human sacrifice materials for the early Ottomans, whom you consider as your "fellows born from Greek mothers".

Asia Minor and Balkans




There can be no doubt that human sacrifice survived among a portion of the Türkmen tribes in Anatolia and the Balkans as late as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as contemporary observers testify. John Cantacuzene, who knew the Turks as well as did any other Byzantine author and who had used Turkish soldiers in extensive numbers, remarks that the Turkish soldiers performed human sacrifice over the graves of their slain comrades. While Chalcocondyles reports that Murad II purchased six hundred slaves in the Peloponnese which he then sacrificed to his dead father.

John Cantacuzene understood the purpose of these sacrifices, but was in error when he considered the practice to be of Islamic origin. Among the shamanistic Altaic peoples it was commonly believed that those whom a warrior slew in this world would serve him in the next. Thus human sacrifice at the grave of the dead warrior was a well-known custom in the religions of the Turkish and Mongol peoples and was observed as early as Herodotus, and as late as the nineteenth century.


Speros Vryonis, Jr. "The Byzantine Legacy and Ottoman Forms." Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 23/24 (1969/1970), p. 260.

Greco-Roman treatment was no different among the older Turks from first millenia, e.g Khazars.

Mason cites from Byzantine sources that apparently refer to a Khazarian "dogh" or "yogh"; that is, a feast or celebration held at a funeral: "Theophanes, who based his work on a now lost sources dating to the year 713, reports that, upon the death of the Khazar Tudun, an officer of lower rank, of Kherson human sacrifices were carried out. The Tudun seems to have been held as an hostage in Constantinople and, apparently as a gesture of good will, had been set free by the Emperor Justinian II in 711 and sent back to Kherson. As a further mark of honour, the Emperor provided an escort of 300 Byzantine soldiers. Upon their arrival in Kherson, however, both the Tudun and his escort seem to have been taken prisoner by the citizens of Kherson and bound over to the Khazar Kaghan. When, on their way to the Kaghan's court the Tudun unexpectedly died, the Khazars put the entire 300-man escort to death at the time of the Tudun's doğa.... The practise of human sacrifice at funerals was not a specifically Turkic phenomenon, but was a feature of the funeral rites of many steppe peoples, being known from the days of the Scyths, as Herodotus testifies.

http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-shamanism.html

[Armenian Bishop]

He is a butthurt Greek turned professional troll, you liking that tells me all I need to know about Armenians.

I recall that you recently opened 1 or 2 troll threads to sneer at or laugh off the century old Armenian tragedy, something that I wouldn't have foreseen a year ago; anyway, me saying that "he's doing his job" was half serious.

My neighbor's dad was a Turk; his family is among my best neighbors, along with the Japanese women nearby. Some many years ago, my best friend was a Turk by the name of Barry Attak. Generally speaking, I like that Turks are more extroverted; on the other hand, Armenians tend to be more family oriented, and into their families. So, it's not a personal matter with me, but a matter of historical and political differences.

Frankly, most Turkic People are either blinded to their historical and political failings, they deliberately deceive people, or they even take pride in their historical bully tactics. I don't like that about Turks, but I do like Turks.

[Dorian]

Greeks,.

I rate your fart as a 4 , practice kocum..

[renaissance12]

What does it mean the 1/4 of the moon and the star on turkey flag?

[Halgurd]

asker oldu
vatan bolundu

[Zroota]

People dont want to be associated with MENA region in here, i think its fairly understandable

Many Turks looks West Asian and would pass easily in the Levant and Cyprus, but more so the latter. Only a few have a Turkic or Turanid look, and others generally look Southern European. Not to mention, 95% of Turkey is Islamic. So it's not really comprehensible to distinguish yourself from West Asia.

Maybe if Turks were predominantly Christian they'd be more accepted in Europe.

[Petros Houhoulis]

He is a butthurt Greek turned professional troll, you liking that tells me all I need to know about Armenians.

You are butthurt canines. I am a free man living in a democracy of sorts. Turkey is a zoo by now...