Greek 'Führer' vows to ‘take back İzmir' after Istanbul

[jimmy olsen]

 Talk about delusional!

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/greek-fuhrer-vows-to-take-back-izmir-after-istanbul.aspx?pageID=238&nID=23248&NewsCatID=351

The leader of the Greek extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has promised to "take back İzmir" a week after saying his party wanted "Istanbul back."

Mihaloliakos, nicknamed the "Greek Führer," said they would take back Turkey's Black Sea region as well during a party rally yesterday in the city of Thessaloniki, daily Milliyet reported.

"We will take back Istanbul, İzmir and the Black Sea," Mihaloliakos said during the rally while addressing accusations of racism that have been directed at his party. "Yes, we are nationalists and racists. We are not hiding that."

Mihaloliakos also criticized the mayor of Thessaloniki for wanting to name a street after modern Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born in Thessaloniki in 1881 when the city was still under Ottoman rule.

[Neil]

That would be awesome.  By 'that', I of course mean the destruction of the Greek state and their re-incorporation into the national state of the Turks.

[Valmy]

That would be awesome.  By 'that', I of course mean the destruction of the Greek state and their re-incorporation into the national state of the Turks.

The Ottoman Empire was not a national state...in fact quite the opposite.

[Neil]

That would be awesome.  By 'that', I of course mean the destruction of the Greek state and their re-incorporation into the national state of the Turks.

The Ottoman Empire was not a national state...in fact quite the opposite.

Turkey is, and the 'Greeks' are Turks.

[Tonitrus]

If the Greeks are actually Turks, then who are actually Greeks?

[MadImmortalMan]

Just claim all of Pontus and Armenia.

[HVC]

If the Greeks are actually Turks, then who are actually Greeks?

no one. All that survives are Greek speaking Turks.

[jimmy olsen]

If the Greeks are actually Turks, then who are actually Greeks?

Piso, a Roman

made a violent speech in which he said that the latter-day Athenians had no right to identify themselves with the great Athenians of the days of Pericles, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, and Plato. The ancient Athenians had been extirpated by repeated wars and massacres and these were mere mongrels, degenerates, and the descendants of slaves. He said that any Roman who flattered them as if they were the legitimate heirs of those ancient heroes was lowering the dignity of the Roman name."

[Duque de Bragança]

I first read Aegean sea but the guy still wants Trebizond/Trapezus for the link with the Komnenoi obviously.
Hurriyet being a Turkish tabloid gives it more importance than it should though.

[The Brain]

It's all Turk to me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

This may lead to Greek Orthodox Christian suicide bombers. 

[Valmy]

Turkey is, and the 'Greeks' are Turks.

What if the Turks are Greeks?  After all the current Turks do not really look like Central Asians

[viper37]

Talk about delusional!

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/greek-fuhrer-vows-to-take-back-izmir-after-istanbul.aspx?pageID=238&nID=23248&NewsCatID=351

The leader of the Greek extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has promised to "take back İzmir" a week after saying his party wanted "Istanbul back."

Mihaloliakos, nicknamed the "Greek Führer," said they would take back Turkey's Black Sea region as well during a party rally yesterday in the city of Thessaloniki, daily Milliyet reported.

"We will take back Istanbul, İzmir and the Black Sea," Mihaloliakos said during the rally while addressing accusations of racism that have been directed at his party. "Yes, we are nationalists and racists. We are not hiding that."

Mihaloliakos also criticized the mayor of Thessaloniki for wanting to name a street after modern Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born in Thessaloniki in 1881 when the city was still under Ottoman rule.

so, he wants to recreate the Byzantine Empire?  Interesting

[Queequeg]

I first read Aegean sea but the guy still wants Trebizond/Trapezus for the link with the Komnenoi obviously.

Pontos had a very large Greek minority until the end of the Ottoman Empire.  There were wide scale massacres, and the remaining population was forced either to emigrate (where they formed a majority of the urban population of Thessaloniki and Athens) or betray the faith of their fathers. 

[The Brain]

or betray the faith of their fathers.

Start to pay taxes?