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From: (Yiannis)
Subject: Re: Branch of English or a Separate Language?
Date: 4 Oct 2004 02:59:18 -0700
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(The Green Troll) wrote in message news:<>...

> I don't see any Arabs, Hittites, or Lydians. They must have some
> descendants in Anatolia.


And you wont be seeing them anytime soon either. Not until the Turkish
govt. allows an honest census. There were almost a million Arabs
living in the Hatay district (border with Syria, Alexandreta) when
Turkey annexed it in the 30s (Peace abroad, yeah right..). So there
are proply a couple of million Arabs in Turkey.
As for Hittites and Lydians, I don't think they exist anymore. They
were proply absorbed and lost their identity. There used to be many
Christian Assyrians in Turkey until recently, but they went the way of
the Armenians (ie ahem "deported" ahem, to pastures green).Anyway they
probably deserved it for being ungrateful traitors to their most
beneficient, pissloving and kind Turk masters.

> What are the numbers in Thrace?

Greek Thrace has close to 150.000 Turks. There are also slavic
speaking muslims in Greek Thrace, but they are a few thousand at most.
Most Muslims there are Turks. At the same time, turkey has
killed-driven off almost all Greeks living there, except for a couple
of thousand people.
There are 300.000 Turks in Bulgaria, mainly in Bulgarian thrace.

> -- Spud <http://www.rev.net/~aloe/geography>;

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