The Turks should rule the Turkish homeland: Anatolia
The original Turkish homeland was in Central Asia, which is still full of people related to the Turks by blood and language. The Turks conquered Anatolia less than a thousand years ago. Up until then, Anatolia had been predominately Greek in culture since the establishment of the major Greek colonial cities of Ephesos, Smyrna, et. al. in the 7th century BCE, and had been part of the Byzantine empire for over 500 years.
The Germans should rule Vienna
They tried this in 1938 - 1945. The Austrians didn't like the results very much, and now prefer to rule themselves.
People have been moving forever, Jacob, and are moving more than ever today. The history of the last four thousand years shows wave after wave of people moving out of Central Asia into Southern Asia and Europe. The Aryans. The Greeks. The Romans. The Scythians. The Celts. The Goths. The Visigoths. The Vandals. The Franks. The Avars. The Huns. The Magyars. The Slavs. The Mongols. The Turks. All these people started somewhere in the center of what is today Russia/Central Asia/Mongolia - all of them! And just think, Europe got the losers! The winners stayed home!
So I think your little self-evident truth depends on which point of the clock you are trying to wind history back to. Invariably, it will be one point for your "good guys" and another point for your "bad guys". Who was that said, for every problem there is a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong? |
