Ultimately there’s no way to determine where the earliest civ’ started, only where the oldest traces are, and the oldest surviving sites (so far) are in Anatolia. Culture and habitation is another thing altogether:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2962614/posts
[snip] stone artifacts on the southern Ionian Islands hint at human sites there as early as 110,000 years ago [/snip]
Civilization is a little difficult to define.
I am sure I read somewhere that the oldest palace in the world, or maybe just Europe was on Crete.
Greek myths which go back to the fog of the beginning of written history, imply that Greece was under the thumb of Crete.