Yes, yes, I know that. But how is that relevant to the acceptance of his conceit that, for instance, the Ecumenical Patriarchate or some Persian ruins in far eastern Anatolia or the Greek, Armenian, or Kurdish citizens of the Republic of Turkey are “Turkish” by the rest of the world?
Because this stuff is in Turkey, the Turks call it Turkish, and many people tend to bend over backwards to refer to things in a country according to the way the countries’ current leaders want them to. Applies especially to third world countries. Some people bend over backwards doing this.
The Turks want us to go along with their calling Greek Orthodox things Turkish because calling them Greek would prick their ethnic chauvinist conceits.
It wasn’t this way in the past. Things were Greek, Mesopotamian or Anatolian in their proper context.