From You 2000 Years Ago🇹🇷

As Turks, we don't call Homer a Turk, or Thales, Anaximander, or any of the others TURKISH. You can barely find even one person who calls them Turkish. What we defend is that these people were ANATOLIAN and NOT GREEK – and that's the correct thing. None of these guys are GREEK like the propaganda you spread everywhere. You're just thieves. Since the Anatolian peoples and states no longer exist today, you're stealing your neighbors' successful people. People like Herodotus, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Strabo, Thales – NONE OF THEM ARE GREEK. They just wrote in Greek because it was the lingua franca of the time, and they went to the most advanced universities in Athens. For example, as a Turk today, if I write my scientific papers in English and become a professor at Oxford, calling me English would be just as ridiculous. These people are neither ethnically nor genetically Greek; they just wrote and spoke that language. Strabo was from Amasya, born in Pontus, his family was close to the Pontic royalty – he had ZERO connection to the Greeks. He lived under a state that was a Persian vassal, and 40 years later the Romans/Latins would come and conquer it. Herodotus was Carian, born under Persian rule in some part of Anatolia – ZERO connection to the Greeks. Pythagoras was the son of a Phoenician merchant – ZERO connection to Greek ethnicity. Thales was Phoenician and born in Sham (Damascus), MEANING THIS GUY WAS LEVANTINE Semitic, lived in what is today's Syria – ZERO connection to the Greeks. The founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, was Cypriot and the son of a Phoenician family – ZERO connection to the Greeks. I could list 80 more like this. Of the people you know as Greek philosophers, only 23% are ethnically Greek; the rest are NOT GREEK AT ALL. That's why the statues found of these people don't even look like today's pitch-black Greeks. WE TURKS WANT THIS THEFT TO STOP. We don't call these people TURKISH – we're just telling the truth: they were ANATOLIAN. Just because their states don't exist today doesn't make them bastards. By stealing everything, they're trying to present themselves as the foundation stone of the West. You're neither the West nor the foundation – you're straight-up THIEVES. The so-called ANCIENT GREEKS you talk about ARE NOT GREEK. The Latins' biggest achievement was ROME, but you promote it like it's Greek, making profile pictures of all their leaders and LARPing. No, you're just subjects of Rome – you had NO importance in Rome. They show Alexander as Greek. NO, Alexander was MACEDONIAN. Among Alexander's Diadochi, there isn't a single Greek – they're all Macedonians. You were just the subjects he conquered – you don't own shit.