Why is there a constant Turkish-Greek feud in this sub?

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Nice_Tip21@reddit

We are those red and blue houses together in the neighborhood from Gnomeo and Juliette

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Greece and Turkiye are exceptional allies. Aligned despite cultural differences. 2 nations that are standing geographically at the bridge connecting east and west. Allowing easy control over airspace and the water passages from the Black sea, all the way to Italy, Libya and the Suez canal. As well as, the trade routes from the Balkan peninsula, until Iran. Two neighboring nations, with massive geostrategic power....

We wouldn't want that, right??? We want smaller nations to be easily controlled. So? What do we do? Divide, spread division and maintain animosity. How are you doing that? Well there is no better way than Nationalism and Religious fundamentalism.

What you see in this sub, is the biproduct of that...

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SituationRoyal6535@reddit

Yeah because nobody wants two NATO countries to get along.

Now bend over and give them the rest of Cyprus.

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seanugengar@reddit

LoL Cyprus is not ours to begin with stupid

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SituationRoyal6535@reddit

Neither is Macedonia.

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seanugengar@reddit

Greece owns the general Macedonia region, as much as you are central Europeans, you CLOWN

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SituationRoyal6535@reddit

I don't care if I'm called southeastern, eastern, or central European, Turk.

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seanugengar@reddit

And I've never said anything about Macedonia you dum dum

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mob74@reddit

Yeah, once we were. Sadly, it lasted for a few thousand years and then things happened for the benefit of … (this part is for not to be banned by the owner of the Reddit).

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Glittering-Most-4124@reddit

Also, I think politicians would rather fearmonger so that people follow them blindly instead of focusing on their own country. They would rather steal more in a weak country than live in a strong one where they cannot steal. I think this is one of the reasons for their fearmongering. I don’t believe even the most nationalistic-presenting ones care about anything but money.

As an example, Devlet Bahçeli, who is the leader of the Turkish nationalist party, even called Abdullah Öcalan—the founder of the PKK, responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Turkish people—“kurucu önder,” which means “founding father” in Turkish, but in a more glorified sense.

Also, I think that while there are cultural differences, Greek and Turkish cultures are about as close as two unrelated cultures can be. There are shared instruments, shared dances, shared fashion, and shared foods. That’s what makes nationalism even more tragic.

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MardukPainkiller@reddit

I mean, from the time I was a child, it was always in the news, the Turks are gonna attack any day now.
It's all about control. I suspect the same is happening there.

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Lorumba@reddit

Are you crazy? What is this nonesense???

If there was peace and no threats how could the american sell their weapons? Do you want american to go bancrupt? >!/s obviously. Also I hope one day I will get to see that reality before I die!<

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MardukPainkiller@reddit

If we were the Americans would find ways to break us up as they did to Yugoslavia.
Who knows, they might already do so.

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SE_prof@reddit

That comment does not need /s ....

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int23_t@reddit

You never could be sure... sadly the reality or reddit.

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Citaku357@reddit

Yes because America is the one fueling the hate between these two countries, it has nothing to do with people living in those countries

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Itsgxl@reddit

Im %100 with you on your analysis but the hatred doesn't really translate into real life and more limited to online interactions. I've been to Greece more than 10 times, I was constantly treated with freebies and getting dinner invitations left and right but same thing applies other way around. Visit Turkye if you get a chance, you'll see what i mekan.

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seanugengar@reddit

It's because the majority of people have nothing to divide them and as you say I am 100% sure I will be treated the same way as you! I have been in Istanbul when I was really young and it is in my, near future, plans to visit Antalya.

As for Reddit... Kardeşim, this platform, like the rest of the internet has turned into a hate spewing dumpster.

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_AIpine@reddit

we need a good starting point for the balkans yaoi

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Stormrage44@reddit

Constant? It's not. Just like inople.

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No_Challenge8358@reddit

that's unironically straight bars 🔥

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pitogyroula@reddit

I don't have any awards to give you so here's two moldy lokmas 🧆

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Stormrage44@reddit

It's the thought that matters I guess

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AntiKouk@reddit

No recovery from that

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Professor_Chilldo@reddit

How much time do you have?

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DragonGenetics@reddit

I wanna hear as much as you’ll tell me

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Consistent_Guava8592@reddit

There is a great debate but it’s actually about anal gay sex. We Greeks deny it being done in ancient times and call anal gay sex Οθωμανικό, ottoman .

I think I described our relationship in less than a minute .

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furkan-erbey@reddit

How do you deny that? Even Socrates was bisexual?

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Ouroboros_JTV@reddit

I don't wanna get banned so I'll sum it up with "fragile masculinity".

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endelehia@reddit

I would prefer the longer, uncut version

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Present-Location-917@reddit

My tagline on grinder

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Consistent_Guava8592@reddit

Not for Israel then ?

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Present-Location-917@reddit

Listen, I’m a hoe that can comprise: longer but cut or uncut but short, you have to make do sometimes.

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Gloomy_Tackle4582@reddit

a long time ago in a galaxy not so far away....

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ilo_masi@reddit

Cause they gay?

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sul_tun@reddit

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vm0066@reddit

ΥΘU ARΣ WΣΑΚ SPΣRM🇬🇷💪

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Proper_Club_4802@reddit

I am white man you look gypsy

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Witty_Departure2061@reddit

classic balkans

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Suspicious-Neat-5954@reddit

The greek man in the video is btw albanian and that makes it better cause the blonde turk maybe is Bosnian(muslim serb)

It was always serbia vs albania

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Aromatic_Dinner_2737@reddit

the comment deleted by reddit might be the funniest shit i have ever seen on Reddit 😭

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8NkB8@reddit

What is this? Is the Greek guy supposed to be Gerard Butler? And I'm not sure what the Turkish guy is supposed to be.

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Erwin_Rommel22@reddit

uncultured w*stoid

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Hund40@reddit

I WANT r/2BALKAN4YOU BAAAAAACK 😭😭😭

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Yapppannnna@reddit

Atatürk

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Ubixdeadpro@reddit

Nope

ATATURKKKKKKK

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Yapppannnna@reddit

RAHHHHHHHHH

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8NkB8@reddit

I wouldn't have guessed that.

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Yapppannnna@reddit

Eh 😅 thats why I told ya (didn't expect u to)

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8NkB8@reddit

I hear you. The guy on the left at least looks like Gerard Butler in the 300 movie.

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No_Calligrapher1190@reddit

The Turkish guy supposed to be turk with Albanian, Greek or Slavic roots 😄

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SE_prof@reddit

Asterix

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Kardiyok@reddit

Just the greastest debate in balkans recorded on video. Go search Greek vs Turk debate on youtube.

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ApprehensiveGain2771@reddit

If you know you know

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Serious_Lemon_7884@reddit

Louis Armstrong from fullmetal alchemist I suppose.

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Main-Purpose7090@reddit

There is only one way and its yaoi

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Your___mom_@reddit

AO3 is wayyyyy ahead of us🙏🏼

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evoscheibe@reddit

Do greeks just eat plain olives as a snack?

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Your___mom_@reddit

Yes

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seanugengar@reddit

Yes

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FrozenDihh@reddit

Ναι

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Commercial_Handle418@reddit

Frozen dihh💀💀💀

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FrozenDihh@reddit

It tastes like frozen olives

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Commercial_Handle418@reddit

... But

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munchmills@reddit

They dont eat them for breakfast though.

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puzzledpanther@reddit

Olives, dried rusk and cheese is a pretty common breakfast for us.

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munchmills@reddit

I'm sure there are people who do. I was talking generally. For many greeks it's weird to serve olives for breakfast. You'd rather see it getting served for dinner. In turkey it's the opposite. Again, generally speaking.

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puzzledpanther@reddit

For many greeks it's weird to serve olives for breakfast.

Maybe it's not common in some households because of daily routine and so many choices... but it would never be weird. Maybe in Athens it would be less common?... in Crete it's very common and a lot of Cretans have and make their own olives... there's quite a few different ways.

We always have three different varieties of olives that we make our own and keep throught the year.

In turkey it's the opposite.

You mean you only have them for breakfast?

Also I'm sure olives aren't as popular in the East as they are on the mediterranean coasts of Turkey.

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munchmills@reddit

In Turkey it's more common to have them for breakfast and not for dinner (in general).

Cretans are not normal greeks 😁 they see themselves as "special greeks" which is understandable, but my point is that they are not represent Greeces general public id say.

I'm quite sure that olives are popular throughout Turkey. As they are also popular in the whole region (Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc.)

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puzzledpanther@reddit

In Turkey it's more common to have them for breakfast and not for dinner (in general).

In Greece they are most common to have for lunch/dinner. Either incluided in salad or seperate dish.

Cretans are not normal greeks

I think Peloponese region is similar but Crete is indeed olive land.

It's just that it's an easy tree to grow in our climate and mountainous island, so they are very common. Maybe also our dietary habbits are a bit less ruined from a modern lifestyle due to an often immediate relationship with nature/farming.

I live in a village so my experience might be skewed (though I do try to take that into consideration when expressing my opinions).

I'm quite sure that olives are popular throughout Turkey. As they are also popular in the whole eastern region as well (Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc.)

I'm sure you are right.

Is also using olive pips for heating popular in Turkey?

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munchmills@reddit

Is also using olive pips for heating popular in Turkey?

Good question, i don't really know but it sounds like people living in smaller villages would use it. They definitely are using coal for heating but i dont know what type.

So you are living in Crete? Lucky you! I visited about 2 years ago. Its my 2nd favorite island so far. Had a great time there and i really liked the simple and natural life style there, also reflected in the food, like you described. Hope to visit one day again.

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puzzledpanther@reddit

but it sounds like people living in smaller villages would use it.

I think it's only allowed in rural areas. Instead of oil for main heating, they use olive pip furnaces. It's quite popular in southern Italy as well which is where it spread here from decades ago (the first furnaces we had here were manufactured there, now they manufacture them here).

It's more economical than gas/oil since there's always an abundance of them (even in a bad havest year). Also a lot of olive mills use it for power... which is logical considering they produce a lot of it when making olive oil.

So you are living in Crete? Lucky you! I visited about 2 years ago. Its my 2nd favorite island so far.

Glad you liked it! Hope you rented a car and managed to visit the southern part of the island. So many lovely secluded beaches and gorges to see.

I grew up here, travelled and lived elsewhere for a bit and for the past decade live here again with my family. We love it. It's got everything nature-wise and food is almost entirely localy sourced since you can grow pretty much anything here. We also grow a lot of our own vegetables, olives, vineyard, herbs, fruit orchard etc... all without pesticides.

It's a lot of work but it's nice to know where your food comes from.

Do you live in Turkey? Which part?

We're planning a road trip through Turkey for sometime in the future. From pictures/videos I've seen the nature is beautiful and I would love to wander around it. Not that interested in the big cities or the western touristic part.. but would love to drive through villages and interesting nature.

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MardukPainkiller@reddit

Yes, and you do too, don't deny it.

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BeeUnfair4086@reddit

The olives i snack are always pre-dipped into a jar with more olive oil and maybe some lemon.

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RasputinXXX@reddit

and maybe just a touch of thyme?

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Google2mGrapesUSjSR@reddit

We do that too? Dont you?

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Exotic_Cantaloupe_96@reddit

Not as much as it is believed that we do. A tourist in Greece eats more olives in a week that a Greek does in a month. It's just part of our diet but nothing excessive.

And ofcourse black olives with pit. Green olives with pit removed is an imposter.

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Next-Pepper-4761@reddit

Σπικ φορ γιορσελφ

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Exotic_Cantaloupe_96@reddit

I am, ofcourse what i say is based just on my observation of family and friends.

My family specificaly are olive oil producers and although we consume a ridiculous amount of olive oil we just don't eat that many olives.

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Affectionate-Arm-405@reddit

I agree 👍

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SE_prof@reddit

Δε νηστευεις αδερφέ... 😁

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Exotic_Cantaloupe_96@reddit

Plenty of things to eat during lent.

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Voldypants_420@reddit

We do that too tho

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Yapppannnna@reddit

In Ege? I've only known it as Breakfast food

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SE_prof@reddit

Everywhere I've been for food in Istanbul or Edirne they offered us plain olives.

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Yapppannnna@reddit

Maybe because they recognised you guys were Greek 😅 I've never visited Edirne only drove through but yeah mebbe thats how it is there

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SE_prof@reddit

My father was born and raised in Istanbul, they thought we were from there...

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Univer001@reddit

I do too mf

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thefriendlyhacker@reddit

I do

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mikewazoski59@reddit

Olive picking gave me a phobia of olives lmao.

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fat-wombat@reddit

How? I also picked olives, but all I got was carpal tunnel

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mikewazoski59@reddit

I can't even touch olives

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fat-wombat@reddit

You…picked them by hand? :O

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Playful-Alfalfa5729@reddit

I from our Aegean region and I do too.

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OswGeoM@reddit

Yup

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asterothe1905@reddit

Olive brotherhood. Turks might too!

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Affectionate-Arm-405@reddit

No we have them as the main course for dinner

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Lotofagos_@reddit

Yes

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Next-Pepper-4761@reddit

Yes

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Wild-Bag-6174@reddit

Is there anyone saving the meme about one Greek and one Turk asking for money?

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Ill_Ad_136@reddit

TBH I think it's more of an older generation problem. I visit other turkish subreddits and young people there are the same as the rest of the world. They travel, play games, drive cars, discuss anime, watching warhammer, playing football etc. I've read different topics on different themes. And in many discussions about such hatred I've read that people travel to each others countries and there was no quarrelling. My believe is that the government simply uses the history as a hate driver because for some reason the don't want to unite. Especially governments with a 70+ y.o. leaders but that seems more like a global problem. But I admit that sometimes I'm feeling the same fear. I am half turk but I dream about visiting Greece, Armenia, Georgia and still I get thoughts that I'll be not welcomed there the second they know who I am.

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TiredPandastic@reddit

It's not as constant as you think, but basically Turkey is Greece's ex-conqueror and the feelings are still salty on both sides. It was 400 or so years of occupation, it's gonna take a while to go away.

Plus... unfortunately Turkey's government like to stir up shit for its ego.

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Lorumba@reddit

We fought but we were not "conqueror" of the greeks. You are talking about ottomans which was both ex-conqueror of turkey and greece.

Maybe its because of this misconception of "turkey is the succsessor of the ottomans" thing?

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Google2mGrapesUSjSR@reddit

Turkey is the successor of Ottomans. The cope with some Turks is unreal

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Lorumba@reddit

No? We literally ended the ottomans? Shoul we assume the current germany is the continuity of n*zi germany?

We literally fought against the ottomans blud.

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cicikusbabacik07@reddit

Depends on your perspective. As a nation, "we" were indeed the ruler of Ottomans, but as people we were not, we were only plebs bound to it. I think it is important to recognize both perspectives equally in history.

Though I don't know why you really don't feel like accepting that Ottomans are indeed an integral part of our national identity; that we really used to be one of the greatest nations among all mankind for a century or two, and a civilization that once made the western world feel awe-struck and insecure

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ShitassAintOverYet@reddit

Banter

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Mustafa1558@reddit

Ekrem edgeworth?

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Surfer_Rick@reddit

My mother in law's family was slaughtered in a Turkish genocide. Our ancestors under the boot heel of the genocidal Ottomans.

When one side tries to wipe the other from existence it doesn't go over well with them.

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Which_Local_7497@reddit

I like to have a Greek friend yet no matter what I do they don't like me because of my race. How can borning in specific race makes you automatically barbaric or heretic? It breakes my heart.

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MeetingImpressive689@reddit

I like you already

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MeetingImpressive689@reddit

Turks were the invaders and took our land, not long ago. They imposed Turkification on the populations of various regions, because they were small in amount but fierce and lethal, against the Byzantine empire, which was exhausted and in pieces. Most of the Turks' ancestry nowadays is greek primarily and the rest of the balkan as well, secondarily. It took them more than 4 centuries to do it, using inhumane methods.But it's silly really, because the real enemies were always the traitors within. The rich attached to the sultan, and the high clergy of the greek church, as well as the foreign kings the western empires imposed to us, that took treacherous actions. The memories of the Asia Minor catastrophe are still fresh. The Turks hate us because our revolution was the start of the decline of the Ottoman empire. Turks will never stop wanting more land, in the islands and Thrace, not only from Greece, but also from other countries around it. It's not the people, it's the governments and the big powers that create rivalry so we both buy expensive weaponry. Both countries have a very nationalistic mindset. That's why we don't have any real future.

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Lvd4aDrm@reddit

Which one of these 2 idiots introduced "rousfeti" though?

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Lorumba@reddit

Comunication is key. The more we communicate the more we understand each other and with time people will understand.

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RangerEmergency5834@reddit

Will the Turkish government legalize DNA testing?

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Ok-Artichoke-4085@reddit

I think Turkish government will legalize killing soon

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iron_ingo@reddit

Anything but roblox

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Ok-Artichoke-4085@reddit

Exactly

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Commercial_Handle418@reddit

💀🙏

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Botanical_Director@reddit

Way too dark of a comment for this early in the day

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TheCharalampos@reddit

Feud? No, we want to desperately fuck each other and this is the only way we can signal our needs.

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missmccreate@reddit

how does one acquire a greek guy

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TheCharalampos@reddit

Have you tried smashing a plate in public?

My wife managed by existing as a foreigner in my small hometown.

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missmccreate@reddit

enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers sometimes

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ilo_masi@reddit

Both are gay

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mikewazoski59@reddit

I just enjoy triggering Turks, no other reason lmao

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Serious_Lemon_7884@reddit

DA FUQ YOU MEAN YOU SEXY GREEK YOU!

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Botanical_Director@reddit

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Serious_Lemon_7884@reddit

Twinktotoles, my favourite ancient greek philosopher.

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Botanical_Director@reddit

I thought it was Twinkopoulos the famous & bloody general on his way to put flowers on the graves of the many many enemies he slew in battle. But you might be right that heavy tunic he's wearing is moreso giving philosopher actually, my mistake.

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Commercial_Handle418@reddit

💀💀💀🙏🙏🙏

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PieBright8211@reddit (OP)

You know what I mean, lmao

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reiwhy@reddit

Turks are getting caught up in ragebait too easily

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gonion@reddit

I love this answer. And yes I'm a Türk. <3

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9uLer@reddit

Turks like to eat olives with buttered bread and greeks with olive oil. And yogurt…its turkish but greeks marketed it to anglosaxon barbarians as it is greek

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MardukPainkiller@reddit

Yogurt is neither Turkish nor Greek; it came from Mesopotamia.
The name Γιαούρτι, however, is definitely Turkish.

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puzzledpanther@reddit

And yogurt…its turkish

Humans have been making yogurt for many thousands of years.

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Rip_Dreaper@reddit

Pretty sure yogurt was invented thousands of years ago back when Turks were Asians and couldn't even handle dairy without shitting themselves

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Burlotier@reddit

Turkish officials threaten to genocide or rape people despite diplomatic talk

People get offended and are mad how neither alliance (EU,NATO)does fuck all or even support the Turkish government

see sub as the only way to express displeasure because the government is either a western puppet or the west sabotages the country in a worse position if it tries to curve its path

“why is there constant Turkish-Greek feud in the sub?”

(not intendeded to offen you, just the reality, some people are even surprised Greece doesn’t let Turkey have control over the Aegean and thus think Greece is the bad actour . They ignore the actual negative traits that Greece has to sell the rhetoric that wanting autonomy or to own your land is bad)

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The_Thighbiter@reddit

W lighter Greek complexion, HELLASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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The_Thighbiter@reddit

lol cant believe this pissed off some fragile t***s, I aint even greek

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Lorumba@reddit

gif

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The_Thighbiter@reddit

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Lorumba@reddit

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

LMAOO

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Big_Confidence_951@reddit

Funny thing is Greeks have probably more in common with Turks than any other country outside of the balkans

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elbatalia@reddit

It’s mostly about food 🍽️

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herhangibirperson@reddit

Greeks can't hide their racism against Turks. Whenever they get the chance they generalize the entire population, go on about how "all Turks are the same", and they are the primary instigators of hatred towards Turks. But whenever Turks are on the victim side (like when things like EOKA B, or Greek racism towards Turks, or Greek support to PKK is mentioned) the Greek users either 1. Suddenly disappear (like how there are almost no Greeks commenting under the posts about attacks in Montenegro towards Turks), or 2. They tell us not to generalize. Maybe every single Greek isn't like that but atleast 90% of them are

When I was a kid I naively used believe that we have many similarities with Greeks and that Greeks are our friends and we should get along and we shouldn't judge everyone for history, until reality hit me hard

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Yavannia@reddit

The irony is through the roof in this comment.

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

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slickeighties@reddit

A half Greek half Turkish woman born in Italy would be interesting to see.

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Moooooooola@reddit

I imagine she’d be similar to the woman in the fiat 500 Abarth commercial. Scary hot.

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FewObligation5642@reddit

At least one woman like that must be existing somewhere

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U__X@reddit

in Italy for sure right ?

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isthistheblood@reddit

I guess if we ever go to war against each other it would end up a massive orgy instead.

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VallahKp@reddit

Balkan together strong

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PaperSweet9983@reddit

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Affectionate-Arm-405@reddit

deep

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RasyonelRumi@reddit

when allah created world allah did give whole world to hellenoturkists but hellenoturkists splitted up so they gived land to other countrie

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Commercial_Handle418@reddit

When Allah created world allah did give whole world to albania but albania nice so they gived land to other countrie

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nobody1568@reddit

Dig you design the flag? I think it would be much better if the colors were more integrated especially in the main body of the flag.

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int23_t@reddit

I believe it's from r/hellenoturkism

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mr_giray1@reddit

İt's fun

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Environmental_Ad8901@reddit

Go fuck a goat malakaaa

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cyunab@reddit

propaganda!!!! sometimes it’s the chinese too.

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Ruoppolo@reddit

This is how they flirt

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InternationalRub4838@reddit

Governments use our hate to fuck us mate. Both of us have terrible economic policies. Nice to meet you!

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AtaturkWarrior1923@reddit

Place Greece 😡

Place Turkey 😍

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AgitatedSplit4039@reddit

There's constant propaganda to hate greece in turkey. Stupid people become extremist nationalists and keep their time attacking other nations instead of doing anything to improve their countries.

I'm sure it's the same in greece too

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funfacts_82@reddit

This meme holds a lot of truth

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Hideharuhaduken420@reddit

Because it's funny af and because some people take it wayyyy too seriously. We don't like those people.

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Think_Disk_133@reddit

In the Balkans it all boils down to one word: religion

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liberalskateboardist@reddit

and yet, the look the same, just one is demetrios and another is demir

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mtheofilos@reddit

Why the fuck would the Greek guy have the Roman empire and Alexander the great's or the Byzantine?

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Prod_Meteor@reddit

We are gays guys. Real men don't tolerate oligarchs.

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wermotivation_@reddit

r/balkans_irl is leaking that's why

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slickeighties@reddit

There is a meme where Greeks and Turks are lovely to each other under songs on YouTube but on here treat each other with contempt. There is a ton of Greek dna in Turkey. It’s basically half Greek anyway historically.

Only God can judge people. I’m sure He didn’t create us and love one creation less than the other.

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wektrust@reddit

Don't get it twisted: you were the ones ruled by a governor as a province for 400 years; we were the ones ruling. If we had wanted to take women as war booty and spread our DNA, trust me, the Turks could have done it. There is no one as brainless as these Greeks; they’ve lost it like a paranoid meth-head at home, hallucinating that "Turks will invade us" and "we are perfect."

They actually think they can take on Turkey with a population only half the size of Istanbul, fueling their ridiculous fantasies by claiming "Europe will help us." Meanwhile, in Turkey, nobody gives a damn about you being Greek; you don't even cross people's minds in daily life. As a member of the European Union, instead of improving things like education and healthcare to strengthen your prosperity and economy, you’re stupid enough to waste time on bullshit arguments about things that happened 1000 years ago.

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18w4531g00@reddit

Ragebait mostly and its not Greece vs Turkey, its Europe vs Turkey.

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KingKiler2k@reddit

Both of those people live in Berlin

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EastIvan@reddit

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Meanwhile both in Germany

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Ok-Artichoke-4085@reddit

It really depends on the region, western region mostly likes Greeks and hates Arabs and the eastern region likes Arabs and hates Greeks. Personally I don't hate them both but Arabs are changing the Turkish culture by defying it like the Turkish people in Germany

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SetOk8408@reddit

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MrwalrusIIIrdRavenMc@reddit

Stop watering down greek lands they had spain,france and britain too

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shishkopath@reddit

This is what happened, a chimp took over the banana tree, ate all the bananas happily. Then another one came and bonked him to take bananas for himself. However, he was also bonked later on by another chimp, now that both chimps are on the ground, they blame each other for everything that happened while the new chimp is enjoying the bananas, throwing rocks on the chimps on the ground for fun and to create chaos. In the meanwhile the first two, just like all the other chimps that came before, keep fighting each other.

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DctrJTAssassin@reddit

"turk" is not real

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Voldypants_420@reddit

Our relationship is like l I hate you baaaka uwu 👉🏿👈🏿

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stepanija@reddit

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Educational_Time2840@reddit

Lies. Both live in Berlin.

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Silly_lil_Guy_o3o@reddit

Seperated by culture and religion, connected by dna tests

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_DataGuy@reddit

As an Iranian, Turks are taking our job.

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Hareholeowner@reddit

I love eating while shitting.

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Good-Hand-8140@reddit

Because Turk weak sperm and Greek gypsy

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Final-Nebula-7049@reddit

Cos it's fun to bicker within family

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Tenchi_Muyo1@reddit

Groups who are closest to each other hate each other the most, that's the Balkan curse

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tres-vip@reddit

I have nothing to do with the Balkans at all, but I keep getting posts from this sub recommended to me. First time because I looked something up on the Mediterranean Foods supermarket in NYC and lo and behold, a video filmed about Turkish and Greek love at MF got posted here, lol.

And then this post because I'm guessing I Googled halloumi recipes for tonight's dinner, lol

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MyPlantsDieSometimes@reddit

Because nationalists make noise

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chrstianelson@reddit

Two countries brainwashed by nationalism unwilling to face the realities of their own history.

What could go right?

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Lorumba@reddit

Yeah the biggest culprit of this was america and soviets.

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MysticEnby420@reddit

This subreddit really isn't that bad by Internet standards honestly. I think people are either more brave to say what they believe or just act more crazy than the sentiment I've heard from most Greeks and Turks offline.

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Itsgxl@reddit

Its purely banter at this point. When I was studying in Hungary, this German douche made fun of a Greek dude because of his thick English accent. I said something like " Two things never change, human stupidity and superiority complex of the Germans despite hard lessons JA? In the thickest German accent. Nobody fucks with my Balkan homies but me.

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Jovan_Konstantinovic@reddit

Honestly I rarely see it. Sometimes i think these types of questions are just "stirring the pot" agenda

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PieBright8211@reddit (OP)

Rarely? You must be blind.

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celBanat@reddit

Yes, rarely.

Even on the most cursed subs, there would me minor fights. Most of this conflict between Turkey and Greece is a meme and the younger generations are chill and don't give a snit.

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BadBasik@reddit

I think it's because Greece parked its islands too close to the Turkish beaches, very rude!

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Ujemegaz@reddit

Probably the only countries on planet earth to have conducted reciprocated ethnic cleansing through bilateral state agreement. Yet, it is fun to see Greeks are still sore.

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Informal_Motor1450@reddit

probably the most peaceful ethnic cleansing in history lol

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Fun_Calendar_6444@reddit

Poor people are governed by oligarchies. The oligarchs do not want them to realize how badly they are being exploited, so they hand them an easy enemy instead. In the process, they turn them into even more obedient slaves. Sure, who cares about health or education, as long as the country has a big, strong army... We are such idiots. Meanwhile, the Turks have a dictator playing with their lives, and we have two or three families running the country like it is their private family business. The world, our world, would be far better when the last Greek nationalist and the last Turkish nationalist will kill each other!

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