Quote Originally Posted by Noble Cuman View Post
It is all political. They accept Anatolian Greeks, Cypriots, Armenians etc as European. But If Europeans see them in Europe they would think they are Middle Eastern. They would be racist towards them. Some Neo-Nazis even killed Greek people thinking they are Turks from Anatolia.
I know some people personally from the large diaspora in France and fairly large ones in Ukraine and Greece, and none of them have mentioned any of what you are stating. As a matter of fact, the diaspora in France and Greece especially have a fairly good reputation among the locals. Turks on the other hand........