East Med Badman 🏝📿 🇬🇷🇵🇸
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Descendant of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and I can’t let their story die. Greek Anatolian / Islander Σα ξένα είμαι Έλληνας και σην Ελλάδαν ξένος
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Joined May 2009
In Istanbul, some friends were singing an old Turkish song “Aman Doktor” in a restaurant. A Greek man walks up to the table and starts singing the same song in Greek (Greeks and Turks share many old folk songs) At the end The 2 men showed great respect to eachother🇹🇷🇬🇷❤️ wow
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The dance of Zeibekiko also has similar roots
The Greek 🇬🇷 dance Zeibekiko (Zeybek is Turkish 🇹🇷 version) is a dance originating from the Aegean region of the Ottoman Empire and is named after the local Zeybek guerilla fighters. It is traditionally supposed to be danced solo while holding the arms out like a hawk
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In Turkish districts this evolved into the kabadayı; among Greeks it became the mangas. After 1922, Asia Minor refugees brought this shared Ottoman street culture into Greece, where it merged into rebetiko and Greek urban identity. Two sides of the same Zeybek-inspired tradition
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Their roots of the style go back to the Zeybeks, the famed bandits of Western Anatolia admired by Greek and Turkish workers alike. Their style and courage lived on in zeibekiko, originally a Zeybek warrior dance. As Smyrna urbanized, Greeks and Turks adopted the Zeybek look:
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In Greek 🇬🇷 culture, a mangas is a rebellious working-class tough guy a street enforcer with swagger, a knife in his scarf belt, and a strict honor code tied to rebetiko. In Turkish 🇹🇷 culture, the equivalent is the kabadayı. Both characters became iconic in late 1800s–early
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As you can see, we (Greeks) were all along every Turkish coast (north, west and south) and we also had strong presence in central Anatolia. This is after many converted to Islam and became “Turks”. Denying our presence in Turkey or playing it down is revisionist history.
Muslim, Greek and Armenian populations of the Ottoman Empire. All data gathered in 1905, and published in 1920. Source: The Republic of Turkey en:Ottoman Archives. The document is published in electronic form Arsiv Belgeleriyle Ermeni Faaliyetleri Cilt 1 (PDF Pages 629-630/656)
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This is 1970s Athens
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You can’t just say this and leave. I want the backstory.
@DIAS Greeks are literally descendants of Gypsies mixed with Armenians
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Me exiting the app after writing some bullshit while all the idiots flock to “debunk it”
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When you want to fight for your country but Baklava is beating your ass.
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The north of Italy is Germanic and the south of Italy is Arab. Everyone knows this.
Italians are the “i no black i Dominican” of white people
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Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Assyrians: GO BACK TO MONGOLIA Mongolians: NO
Mongolians to Turks: WE ARE NOT THE SAME! We Kurds say the same to them: WE ARE NOT THE SAME! Turks really need to sit down and stop stealing other people's history. Just stick to your belly dancing and leave the rest of the world alone.
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What the fuck did I just read
Finding Dua Lipa attractive means you don't have the epigenetic europid blood memory of distrusting gypsies. I look at this woman and my DNA tells me she's just distracting me so her brothers can steal my livestock.
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Blame the AZACS for trying to invade a foreign land in another continent. FAFO. They shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence as Greeks who were actually oppressed under the Ottoman Empire, 🙄
I will never forgive the Ottoman Empire for what they did to the ANZACs and what they did to the Greeks
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Greek influencers are now creating Greek-Turkish content and getting all the credit like I haven’t been getting crucified for the last 5 years for doing it. I’m like the Nikola Tesla of Turkish-Greek relations. Maybe one day a power hungry billionaire will name his Feta brand
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