It is

It is their land.

Smyrna should be Greek, change my mind.

WE WILL RETAKE CONSTANTINOPLE.

Turkey has no claim over Cyprus.

Turks have no place in Anatolia

They need to driven back to their homeland in Central Asia

Well, they illegally invaded and told the Kurds and Armenians to fuck off.

Those poor central Asians don't deserve that

@Fitzydog the central Asians are Turks

^

I mean, *technically.* Do the Kazakhs really deserve people from Turkey though?

To be fair, the Ottoman Empire did stabilise the region and it is somewhat fair that they have that as consolation for being split up by the Allies.

BUT

They did also wage a genocidal campaign against the Armenians.

Like they have no claim over Anatolia.

Legally speaking, technically.

But then there's the other side of that coin.

They have a long-established ethnic and administrative presence there, so Anatolia isn't quite black and white.

Culturally, it is *very* Turkish.

I mean, that was established by killing the people that wouldn't assimilate, though.

That's true.

But like

Can you redraw the borders of the Middle East now differently from the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

No, it's too long-standing.

It wouldn't be practical.

With Cyprus, the vast majority are Greek Cypriots.

The government is formerly Greek.

And Turkey invaded unlawfully.

isn't there still demilitarized zones in Cyprus?

there is

Yes.

The Turks invaded a part of Cyprus with no legal basis of justification.

*or

Yeah I remember watching a documentary on it awhile back on YouTube. It's been happening since like the 60's or 70's. Cyprus used to be a popular celebrity vacation spot back in the 60's until war broke out. Why did the Turks invade? They claim it's their land or something?

They do.

The Turks are basically using WWII Germany logic and saying “we have an ethnic minority here therefore we should unite our ethnic peoples”

Which is retarded because when they invaded only 17% of the population were ethnically Turkish

Even right now, there are roughly 650000 Greek Cypriots to Turkish Cypriots.

*150000

Lol that's fuckin' nuts. I know blacks aren't African, but that is like Africa invading the US because 13% of the population is black.