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Are Turks and Greeks genetically the same?
Turkey Turks come from same ancestors with greeks. they are similar culture and genetic.
The population of Anatolia was Hellenized but never majority Greek by blood. Both. A lot of the Turks you see running around in Turkey and other countries aren’t even genetically Turkish – they’re descended from Greeks and Balkan peoples who were enslaved by the Ottomans.
Is Turkey a part of Europe?
Turkey, country that occupies a unique geographic position, lying partly in Asia and partly in Europe. Throughout its history it has acted as both a barrier and a bridge between the two continents.
Is Greece in EU?
A founding member of the United Nations, Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities (precursor to the European Union) and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001.
How do Greeks feel they are European?
“Greeks feel they are ‘European,’ in the sense that ‘Europe’ is an ancient Greek word for the continent, and the Greek peninsula is part of this European continent,” she said.
Is Greece considered a European country?
Greek is indeed a ‘European’ country, but she added some qualifications. “Greeks feel they are ‘European,’ in the sense that ‘Europe’ is an ancient Greek word for the continent, and the Greek peninsula is part of this European continent,” she said. “Greece has been part of the European Union (EU) since 1981,…
How different is Greece’s contemporary culture from Western Europe?
Moreover, Greece’s contemporary culture was largely shaped by the trends and conventions of Southeastern Europe and the Near East – which are wildly different from Western European norms.
Do Greeks still know what the “great idea” was?
Today hardly any Greek knows what the “Great Idea” was, because — especially after the “Asia Minor Catastrophe” — it lost its glory and even its meaning, so we stopped learning about it in our schools. Only the Turks think that we still know what the “Great Idea” is. They think we Greeks still covet their largest city, Istanbul.