Greek Cypriot prisoners buried alive in Turkey: report

Cyprus-Mail ^ | July 7th, 2016 | George Psyllides

[Verginius Rufus]

The Kurds are probably descended from the Kardouchoi who lived in the same area in ancient times. Xenophon's Anabasis has an interesting account of the Ten Thousand Greeks' march through that area. Their language is Indo-European, in the Indo-Iranian branch (related to Farsi), completely unrelated to Turkish. (The Armenian language is also Indo-European but in a separate branch, not Indo-Iranian.)

The Turkish language was brought in by immigrants from Central Asia after the Byzantine defeat in the battle of Manzikert in 1071, but the modern Turks are probably a mixture of Central Asians and those who were there before (Lydians, Cappadocians, Galatians, etc.) and those who were brought in as slaves during Ottoman times. As late as the early 1800s Turks were raiding coastal areas of the Mediterranean and carrying peasants off as slaves.

[Texas Fossil]

The modern Turkish language was created by an Armenian after WWI. They did not discuss that fact that he was Armenian.

The Armenian Who Helped Create Today’s Turkish Language
http://armenianweekly.com/2017/07/11/the-armenian-who-helped-create-todays-turkish-language/

Comments: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3568502/posts?page=1

The modern Turkish language owes a lot to an Armenian
http://100years100facts.com/facts/modern-turkish-language-owes-lot-armenian/

[Texas Fossil]

I have no Armenian, Turk, Kurd or Arab ancestry.

But I have posted a lot of articles here about them over past 5 years. It has been an education.

I do have many friends in the region. And I have learned to trust those who are always truthful with me.

[Verginius Rufus]

I also have no Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, or Arab ancestry.

Some of the DNA tests I have taken show a little "Middle Eastern" ancestry but that seems to date back thousands of years, to prehistoric farmers from that area moving into Europe, long before the Armenian or Kurdish languages existed, or before the Arabic language was spoken in what is now Syria and Iraq.

Kazantzakis in one of his books talks about rescuing Greeks who were in danger of being massacred by Kurds (in the 1920s, I think), which just goes to show that no group has a perfectly unblemished record. Simeon and Levi slaughtered the men of Shechem (after they had raped their sister Dinah) and the Israelites never returned the jewelry they "borrowed" from the Egyptians.

[Texas Fossil]

The Middle East if full of “old grudges”. They have long memories concerning abuses, but at times those memories are not based on facts.

My father and I both had our DNA tested. His for male DNA, mine for my mothers female DNA. (I no longer have a male offspring so it made no sense to test my male DNA)

I think the “ancient” components of DNA may be suspect. The modern connections are amazing.

They seem to indicate that everyone came from Africa. I doubt that.