question for the greeks
Posted by Late-Competition6773@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 71 comments
would you trade rhodes, but you get istanbul?
Posted by Late-Competition6773@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 71 comments
would you trade rhodes, but you get istanbul?
WarthogVast3210@reddit
Counter offer would be Serres, Kilkis, Komotini, Xanthi.
Iapetus404@reddit
Rhodes is not in market....
We can give you Kilkis for Constantinople and you can keep east side.
Resident-District199@reddit
huh ?? whats kilkis ??
GEO7931@reddit
Hahaha very clever greek friend. Lets give them location that doesn't exist and we take the very real Constantinople.
holdmymusic@reddit
So you want the west side?
prodigioustimekiller@reddit
Exchanging 120 thousand of our weird talking like singing hobbitses for 12 MILLION of yours? We can barely control our retirement funds every 10 years without going into a massive recession, and now we get to pay for all the tribes of Anatolia into one city? That is a hell of a bad deal.
I'd say it would be funnier if we got Eastern Thrace without Istanbul, as they seem too Balkan to be true. Maybe they cosplay as Muslims. But we can make them drink alcohol without insecurity. Plus the whole place looks like any random Greek town whose only point of reference is being a bus stop.
icancount192@reddit
I can give you Pyrgos for Edirne.
Or forget Edirne, just take Pyrgos
Alternative_Chip_397@reddit
First funny Greek I have seen
StPauliPirate@reddit
Whats wrong with Pyrgos? Is it your Diyarbakir?
icancount192@reddit
No it's great. Take it
QuestionEconomy8809@reddit
It's pure ass bro
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
😂
Jimakos2018@reddit
Trade? You can have Mykonos for free
Free-Celebration4562@reddit
Nah, Mykonos needs to be bombed out of existence at this point.
Worried-Owl-9198@reddit
Are you serious? Let's go to the title deed office right now
Routine_Comb_7277@reddit
of course yes
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
Do you want Peloponnese?
volcano156@reddit
If you take southeastern turkey, why not?
Kavalarhs@reddit
This is blasphemy. This is madness
casual_philosopher02@reddit
we were da first to free the land from turks and they trading us...
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
I m Peloponnesian 😂
Next-Pepper-4761@reddit
Ι wanna be a hater rn, but as a fellow Peloponnesian i get it man...
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
😂😂😂
casual_philosopher02@reddit
OH THE BETRAYAL
Kavalarhs@reddit
He must be from pyrgos
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
I have relatives there 🤣
Kavalarhs@reddit
Its starting to make sense now
casual_philosopher02@reddit
best of them has fucked his mother, makes sense
Worried-Owl-9198@reddit
That really hurt my feelings lmao
casual_philosopher02@reddit
Ι sincirely apologise
Worried-Owl-9198@reddit
I knew you weren't being serious. 🥲
jaunmilijej@reddit
Bro my Greek friend said today he’d love to exchange the Turkish Aegean Coast for Peloponnese. What’s your issue with Peloponnese 😭
icancount192@reddit
Peloponnesseans are considered both cunning and crooks by the rest of the Greeks. Most prominent politicians, lawyers etc hailed from the Peloponnesse.
There's a mostly joking feud between the North (Macedonia) and the South (Athens and the Peloponnesse). The South doesn't consider the feud ever, but the Northern Greeks take it a bit more seriously.
jaunmilijej@reddit
Yeah I’ve heard about that feud a lot. My friends (from the south) keep calling the Northerners Bulgarians and farmers…
icancount192@reddit
Mostly football fans call the Northern Bulgarians anymore. Now everyone is everywhere and it doesn't make much sense.
But 50-60 years ago a lot of people from the South called the Northerns Bulgarians and the refugees from Anatolia Turkish seeds.
jaunmilijej@reddit
Τουρκόσπορος! That’s how they call me too!
icancount192@reddit
Yep, exactly.
Altruistic-Board5322@reddit
I was born there, trust me 😂
jaunmilijej@reddit
In case Nafplio and Mycenae count it was awesome there
LaVeriteEstDansLeVin@reddit
It's not the Peloponnese, it's the Peloponnesians.
ephesusa@reddit
We can give you mersin for it
casual_philosopher02@reddit
Eeeeeee minara, let us be
Complex-Arugula-2233@reddit
Amazing Offer! Exclusive gift:
We can give you Thiva, Giannitsa, Kilkis, Pyrgos and Agrinio for Instabul!!!!
Yes!
Five amazing Greek cities!!!!!
As a gift for the trade, you can have Filiatra! There is an Eiffel Tower there, I am not kidding!
Don't miss the offer, guys. 5 + 1 cities, for Instabul!
SOHONEYSAME@reddit
no,
& the Greek government would, also, reject it.
Greece opposed "giving up" Kastellorizo (and Ro/Strongyli) for annexation of (most of) Cyprus.
majority of Greeks would, also, oppose it.
a minority may support it,
but, we know exactly who these people r & how "destructive" their foreign policy "ideas" may be.
Young_Owl99@reddit
Quick unrelated question. Why we use two different Greek names for the same island ?
Use call it Kastellorizo, we call it Mais. Both are obviously Greek why two different names ?
Sior_Soffritto@reddit
Kastellorizo is not Greek in origin but Italian. Its name is a Hellenized form of Castelrosso. The Greek name of the island is Megisti, from which the Turkish name Meis is also derived.
Young_Owl99@reddit
Oh interesting. Thanks for the answer. It always seemed odd to me that we use a Greek name that you didn’t use for the island.
Sior_Soffritto@reddit
The official name is Megisti, but everyone uses Kastellorizo in everyday context.
The same is true for Santorini, which is a Hellenized form of the Italian name Sant’Irene. The Greek name is Thira.
Cookiesend@reddit
Greece is the most beautiful country in the world. Keep our greek artwork safe in Turkey. Thanks
RasyonelRumi@reddit
I can give you Trabzon and in return I don’t want anything
CalydonianBoar@reddit
Is the Pontic region really that bad? At least the landscape looks magnificent
RasyonelRumi@reddit
Just like you said, a perfect landscape, but a difficult political environment. Very conservative, very pro-Erdogan. They call everyone “Bizans tohumu,” which means “Byzantine seed,” while their genetic makeup shows a very low percentage of East Eurasian ancestry, many of them actually show 0%.
abki12c@reddit
Yess finally restoration of the Komnenos dynasty
jaunmilijej@reddit
While at it take Rize too
RasyonelRumi@reddit
lol true
CalydonianBoar@reddit
The OP really likes Rhodes. Ok, it is very nice Island indeed
Minimum-Winter9217@reddit
No. Istanbul has Turkish citizens and Rhodes has Greek citizens and I want everyone to live in peace.
SOHONEYSAME@reddit
yes,
& Greeks would be a minority, IN Greece.
there r no Turkish in Rhodos/Greece & no Greeks Istambul/Turkey,
so, the "hypotheticals" of OP r bs & dangerous.
ZhiveBeIarus@reddit
There are some Turks in Rhodes
Young_Owl99@reddit
You can have Pontus back :)
VForSk@reddit
Can we have Rhodes AND Instanbul ? 😛
Puzzleheaded_Sail729@reddit
WE WİLL INSHALLAAH
Frank_cat@reddit
I would trade Rhode Island to get Constantinople (mine now to name).
RichDream7777@reddit
I wouldn't give any of our current land for any place in the world
Greek_Bodybuilder995@reddit
If that were to happen, half of Istanbul - if every Istanbulu were to be granted Greek nationality - would emigrate to Germany overnight. This deal would be far worse for Istanbul than it would be for us.
Professor_Chilldo@reddit
I don’t think most Greeks really want the city itself back. I think what most Greeks really want is Hagia Sophia back.
muformoon@reddit
Give us the aegan islands and take your pretty precious pontus please 🙌
Iapetus404@reddit
Worried-Owl-9198@reddit
Pleaaaaase pleaaaaase, there are very beautiful forests
Worried-Owl-9198@reddit
Ahemmm
PretendTemperature@reddit
No bro, rhodes is super nice.