Turkey to change the name of Aegean Sea? Because it is Greek

[kundur]

Yesterday on Turkish social media, #AdalarDenizi was trending as replacement name for Aegean Sea, and #BatıAnadolu (Western Anadolia) was trending to replace the Aegean Region names.

It has no meaning for me if they change the name because it is Greek. What for double standarts, changing names because it is Greek(lets make Istanbul to Gökkent or whatever) but even my imam when he preaches in Ramadan-prayer is more understandable than some people‘s pseudo Ottoman Turkish.

Nope it is not like that. You go tell your heartbreaking stories to Greek friends who, after taking Western Thrace in 1919, massacred the Bulgarians there and renamed toponyms. Dedeagach became Alexandropolis and Gümülcine turned Xanthi. Bulgaria did not replace Turkish toponyms like Tatar Pazardzyk, Kardzhali which are still in use. In Greece, not a single Turkish toponym was left.

Here a Turkish a 1000-years old usage was dropped in 1941 during a Hellenic cultural coup in Turkey, and now Turks are calling to revert it back to its original.

There is no replacement here but a restoration.

[The Lawspeaker]

That's o.k. We could start calling Constantinople Constantinople again and Turkey Asia Minor and break off relations.

[Renekton]

Butthurt Turk has a strong obsession with the Greeks

[Bender1999]

Yesterday on Turkish social media, #AdalarDenizi was trending as replacement name for Aegean Sea, and #BatıAnadolu (Western Anadolia) was trending to replace the Aegean Region names.



Nope it is not like that. You go tell your heartbreaking stories to Greek friends who, after taking Western Thrace in 1919, massacred the Bulgarians there and renamed toponyms. Dedeagach became Alexandropolis and Gümülcine turned Xanthi.
Here a Turkish a 1000-years old usage was dropped in 1941 during a Hellenic cultural coup in Turkey, and now Turks are calling to revert it back to its original.

There is no replacement here but a restoration.

No i don’t have a problem with that, i am a friend of removing foreign terms from Turkish, especially Arabic ones. I just have the problem with that pseudo nationalism. Otherwise, i support this idea.
You don’t need to tell me what happened in Balkans, i have ancestors who died there.

[Annihilus]

I like Ege, sounds good, will continue to use.

[kundur]

No i don’t have a problem with that, i am a friend of removing foreign terms from Turkish, especially Arabic ones. I just have the problem with that pseudo nationalism. Otherwise, i support this idea.
You don’t need to tell me what happened in Balkans, i have ancestors who died there.

I still don't see why a ''Turk'' would be bothered to restore a Turkish usage and eliminate a neo-Hellenicism.

Especially considering that (as said earlier) when Greeks took Western Thrace they did not only massacre Bulgarians, they also massacred every single Turkish and Bulgarian (Slavic or else) toponyms and Greekified all names.

If it was a Bulgarian word, Turks would not mind. Since Bulgarians did not touch many Turkish toponyms like Pazardzyk and so. Yet anything Greek is a problem.

And again.
Here it is not replacement, but a restoration of a 1000 years old Turkish usage.
Hence there is no nationalism involved (Islamists and Kemalists promote Adalar Denizi), just a resilience against the Hellenic aggressor.

[Bender1999]

I like Ege, sounds good, will continue to use.

Why we don’t call it yayla sea, that sounds yummy! Neither ege nor adalar, i am for yayla sea!

[Annihilus]

I still don't see why a ''Turk'' would be bothered to restore a Turkish usage and eliminate a neo-Hellenicism.

Especially considering that (as said earlier) when Greeks took Western Thrace they did not only massacre Bulgarians, they also massacred every single Turkish and Bulgarian (Slavic or else) toponyms and Greekified all names.

If it was a Bulgarian word, Turks would not mind. Since Bulgarians did not touch many Turkish toponyms like Pazardzyk and so. Yet anything Greek is a problem.

And again.
Here it is not replacement, but a restoration of a 1000 years old Turkish usage.

I think restoring the ownership of the islands is much more important, changing the name now is just butthurt.

[The Lawspeaker]

Mikra Asia or Asia Minor
Constantinople
Adrianopolis
Smyrna
Nicaea
Trapezous
Nicomedia
Ceasarea or Mazaka
Ancyra or Agora
Prusa
Sandarake
Attaleia
Antioch

It all sounds much better, wouldn't you say ?

[itilvolga]

Since it’s not a new made-up term, I wouldn’t mind if we started calling like that again. Still, I have no problem with the Greek term “Aegean”. It’s not really “Greek” in our language though. We call its Turkified version “Ege” and even give it as name to our children so it’s a part of us, not a foreign term in my view.