Posted on 02/17/2018 6:08:02 AM PST by Texas Fossil
But while so many others in Anatolia merged/subsumed their identity into the dominating Turks, the Kurds and the predominantly Armenians did not.
You won’t see many Armenians if any there nowadays.
The present-day population of Anatolia probably includes many descendants of people enslaved and brought to Anatolia during the Ottoman period (including the "blood tribute" of Christian boys from rural districts), along with Muslims who moved to the remaining Ottoman provinces as Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and other areas threw off the Ottoman yoke.
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