The Turks try and lay claim for things not their own all the time. This is the first time I have seen in print a Turk acknowledge where they leave was not places their ancestors came from and hod no hand in founding.
“This is the first time I have seen in print a Turk acknowledge where they leave was not places their ancestors came from and hod no hand in founding.”
I can’t say as I have ever read any writing by a Turk saying these things, but the very existence of the “museum” of Agia Sophia demonstrates a society which preexisted the Ottomans.
The Western educated, secular Turks I know from business frankly remind me of my own educated, professional relatives in Greece and my friends with similar backgrounds from Lebanon and Egypt. This doesn’t mean that I would trust Turkey or the average Turk as far as I could throw him!