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To: MARKUSPRIME
Turkey was historically in Asia minor its not european.

Well, it depends on how far you go back. Was Ionia part of Asia? I think Herodotus considered himself to be European. And Constantinople?

46 posted on 10/03/2005 10:34:57 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

The Greeks are Europeans. That is especially true since they coined the word.... When the Greeks coined the word, the Turks were living somewhere in Turkmenistan or thereabouts..


50 posted on 10/03/2005 10:43:55 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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