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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (70334)	5/15/2003 11:08:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 70976

Most Turks would have me burn in hell for saying this, but this is a subject that I have done some studies in. "Turkishness" is a fairly recent concept. I don't think you can find evidence for it older than 700 years ago, which in a region with civilizations going back to thousands of years, is a very very recent thing. The best I managed to conclude was that there were many races in what we now call Turkey that were subdued by a small tribe. In one form or another, most of the ethnic groups (with the exception of Kurds and Armenians) were melted into a "Turkish" concept. IMO, being a Turk is really not much different that being "American" in that it is made of many races melted down to a concept enforced by the central government. But as a race or as deep historical concept, Turkishness is an ambiguous concept.

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