Thoughts on ancient Turkish civilization?

Posted by Dtstno@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 20 comments

Turkey's advertising campaign emphasizes the greatness of ancient Turkish civilization:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_g5hz6XBLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRx3szsEUb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObufUm1d1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV4_JWt-5w8

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floegl@reddit

I'm Greek, and frankly, I couldn't care less. That's their country, and it's within their rights to present whatever they want for ruins that exist within their own geographical territory.

If I remember correctly, they also have a statue or some sign of Alexander the Great inside Instanbul Airport. They dont claim him as their own, though, so its all good.

It's a different story with N. Macedonia, who is trying to change historical facts.

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Hopeful_Winner4731@reddit

no , we claim our anatolian ruins they are made by anatolians: luwians,phrigians,hittitis etc

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GSA_Gladiator@reddit

Your title is just wrong, they never claim such a thing, at least in the video you sent.

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LexYeuxSansVisage@reddit

Those are pagan civilizations mate. Zeus would be very sad if he saw a Greek worshiping the middle eastern gods.

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Satsuka1@reddit

🤓👆 rage baiting goes to the other ex-ottomam sub

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Sea_Top9815@reddit

Hahaa nice bait malaka! You don't have power here!

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What’s ancient Turkish civilization? It was Roman Empire, Greeks, and Lycians. Ottomans in latter stage. I like Turkiye that we have now, and I like the history of everything thats been there before it even more. My only problem is littering. Lots of people just don’t respect the absolute paradise they live in. They should know better

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theguysinblackshirt@reddit

What does the ancient Turkish civilization mean? Why in balkan r anyway isn't r/Asia

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masterboss61@reddit

No it isn’t? Why are you posting things if you don’t understand them yourself?

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Rock_Zeppelin@reddit

What do you mean "ancient Turkish"? Throughout history there were at least 5 civilisations in what is modern day Turkey, that were not Turkish. We have the Hittites, the Akkadians, the Phrygians, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Byzantines and that's not even counting the even older neolithic civilisations that built places like Gobekli Tepe.

Like what are we doing here? Cos if we're commenting on shitty marketing, then yeah, shitty marketing. Otherwise this would be like someone calling the Thracians or the south Slavic tribes "ancient bulgarians".

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Zaknafein-dour_den@reddit

It never says ancient Turkish civilization. It is ancient things in current Turkish land.

Also Anatolia is one of the historically richest land in human history.

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Rando__1234@reddit

Mofo didn’t like the reactions from MENA sub so he tried his/her luck here

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WiselyChosenName21@reddit

Mother of all ragebaits