UKRAINE: Putin TO Crimean Tatars: "The Greeks were here before you and me"

pravda.com.ua ^ | Friday, May 16, 2014 , 18:08

[virgil]

Problem is, there’s no ancient Khazar, or even an ancient Israelite around when you need them.

[DariusBane]

yeah the Catholic West preferred Muslims over Christian “heretics”.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don’t know if there are any identifiably Khazar cemeteries from the Middle Ages...if so maybe some Khazar DNA could be extracted from some of the bones. But they may have been a mix of different backgrounds just like the Huns (for the same reason—the Khazar men having children by women they had enslaved).

[Verginius Rufus]

In 1571 the sultan was hopeful of getting help from "Lutherans" (some of whom may have been non-Lutheran Protestants) when he was fighting the Venetians and their allies in the Cypriot War.

At Kosovo in 1389 many of the troops fighting on the side of the Serbian king were Catholics. The pope kept trying to launch Crusades against the Turks without much luck. There were efforts in the 1200s and in the period just before the fall of Constantinople to end the schism between Rome and Constantinople, which failed because of lack of support on the Orthodox side. The Greeks preferred being ruled by the Turks to being reunited with Rome.

When the Turks were overrunning Hungary and threatening Vienna, the French were allied with the Turks.

[DariusBane]

1204 A.D. has something to do with that.