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To: Verginius Rufus

But while so many others in Anatolia merged/subsumed their identity into the dominating Turks, the Kurds and the predominantly Armenians did not.


22 posted on 02/17/2018 12:28:23 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

You won’t see many Armenians if any there nowadays.


23 posted on 02/18/2018 3:38:37 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: Wuli
Those who converted to Islam ("turned Turk") lost their original identity (apart from the Kurds)--so the Armenians and Greeks who remained were those who stayed faithful to Christianity.

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.

24 posted on 02/18/2018 2:20:10 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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