.........The Greek state was a new phenomena. Up to the time Greece came into existance as state, they had no state to identify with.........
Armenians did the same thing when it came to their ways of identifying themselves. Are you telling me that 'ethnic' Greeks and Armenians are the same now?
Until the 19th century (Reformation Era) beside the Muslim millet, the main millets were the Greek Orthodox, Jewish, Armenian and Syrian Orthodox.[3] Armenians formed more than one (actually three) millets under the Ottoman rule.[4] A wide array of other groups such as Catholics, Karaites and Samaritans were also represented.
Even though it was named after Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire, all Orthodox Christians were included in the millet-i Rûm. Therefore, Orthodox Greeks, Bulgarians, Arabs, Albanians, Vlachs, Romanians and Serbs were all considered part of the same millet despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was Greek dominated.
The map Terra Nova showed -if you accept that as evidence- proves what I said.
No Turkish would write Turkish in Greek script. In fact, most Turkish in those days did not write, and if they did they would write in the Arabic script. No Turk would change his religion to become Christian. That would not make any sense at all.
To put it differently, we lost in Turkey, and we won in the Northern province. We took our people home.
That you can not accept that they are Greek is really your problem.
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