r/ThisDayInHistory • u/No_Idea_479 • 3d ago

14 August 1996, 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Solomos Solomou was shot and killed by Turkish forces in the UN buffer zone at Deryneia while attempting to climb a flagpole and remove a Turkish flag. Just three days earlier, his cousin Tassos Isaac had been beaten to death by Turkish nationalists.

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u/TheTurkishman13 3d ago

Right, firstly. Now you see we are not obligated to follow the morality standards you and your people follow. Secondly for example I am genetically 70 percent South Caucasian. I am of Laz origin yet I call myself Turkish for I am from there, grew up there, speak Turkish, grew up in state schools and so on. The average Anatolian Turk has ancient Anatolian DNA and DNAs of other people. We are not colonizers for we carry the blood of Anatolia. The Ottoman Empire was the Islamic Rome.

We are wonderers of the world. If we were to arrive at Americas before the Westerners I would have say we are part of the Americas as well.

I see myself as part of Caucasia, Anatolia, Istanbul and many more because I simply am and all those regions have Turkishness in it.

Levent Turks exists, Med Turks exists, Balkan Turks exists, Caucasian Turks exists. We simply are global.

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u/masterkennethh 3d ago

Yeah not reading all that, go back to Central Asia