0colaturka0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Oh please, stop your sinocentrism. I don't say that you need to forget the atrocities committed against greeks (and vice versa), but forgive. The first written alphabet of the Turks were found in the Orkhon script and that was during the Sky Turk Empire (before we even reached Anatolia) and when we did reach it, Turks converted to Islam taking over the Arabic alphabet, but after Ataturk's reforms we now have the Latin alphabet which suets better.

forzafabby (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Greeks been there for thousands of years which makes it their homeland.They were the Ionian Greeks who started the very first modern civilization in Symrna as the first inhabitants.If you try to kick them out you have to kill them.Of those who surrendered stayed alive but the ones who chose to stand up for their lives were cruelly slaughtered by fucking Ottomans.This is the pure naked truth!

artemisbow58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You need to go study history. Anatolia and Pontus was settled by Greeks -ancient Greeks. They had been there for thousands of years. sadly though for many years the Turkish nomads and the Greeks had lived side by side mostly in peace until Ataturk. do you know that the Turkish language didnt have a written form until after the genocide-do you know that Turkish was written using the Greek alphabet because it was only an oral language?

artemisbow58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

also please be aware that, should you be Turkish-no one blames you for your forefathers atrocities as no one blames the young Germans for the Nazis. But history is history. Learn it.

artemisbow58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ataturk's plan was to unify all the nomadic tribes of the land into a country-0which he did by killing thousands/millions of Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians-people who lived in the lands since ancient times. a genocide is a genocide--and this one was so successful that Hitler based his progrom on Ataturks and even called it what it was an extermination-genocide.Read and educate yourself—

artemisbow58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ataturk's plan was to unify all the nomadic tribes of the land into a country-0which he did by killing thousands/millions of Greeks, Assyrians & Armenians-people who lived in the lands since ancient times. genocide is a genocide--& this one was so successful that Hitler based his progrom on Ataturks & even called it what it was an extermination-genocide. Read & educate yourself--.

artemisbow58 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You need to go study history. Anatolia and Pontus was settled by Greeks -ancient Greeks. They had been there for thousands of years. sadly though for many years the Turkish nomads and the Greeks had lived side by side mostly in peace until Ataturk. do you know that the Turkish language didnt have a written form until after the genocide-do you know that Turkish was written using the Greek alphabet because it was only an oral language? 2bcont

saltadoros08 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

pussy

antique50000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

When the Armenian cheteh guerillas attacked turkish city of Van and killed everyone in the city how many Greeks rose up to protest. What happened to all the thousands Ottoman buildings and Masques in Greece is any one standing still. I call it erasing the past. Where is the Greek democracy here? Turks dont talk about Crete how they lost it. They will never repete similar mistakes again.similar mistakes again.

NikosGreeceEver (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

millions of children, men and women were tortured and massacred or expelled from their homes only for being Hellenes. In the same places and often at the same time, were also tortured and massacred millions of Armenians and Assyrians of all ages...