The Byzantine Empire in modern times

Exactly like what they did for Afghanistan and Iraq!

As Oguzoglu said, her turk asker (Turkey) is too powerful!

Everyone just calm down. I never mentioned anything about military action. I said would it be possible to acquire it. This could be done in many ways without a single shot fired.

Do the Turks really consider Istanbul/Constantinople as traditional Turkish land? It was founded by Greeks, and held by Greeks for 2000 years. The Turks have had it for only about 550 years. How do the Greeks see the city?

As for the jihad, I was under the impression that Turkey was not on too high of a standing with the Islamic world because of its western culture and (well from what I hear) rising secularism. Its ties to the United States and NATO does not help much either. Would a jihad really be called?

I would advice all fellow Greeks to simply ignore that little nationalistic/nazi/twit who spat the whole "Turkey uber alles" rabish and do not reply in kind. It does not deserve it.

I would ask the moderators though, to stop selectively ignoring the Turks when they get off board and delete this vomitous message. If it was a Greek saying that we kicked your ass and your ideas is crap and whatever, you would've already banned him.

Komnenos,

There are right wing fanatics in Greece, bound on re-creating the Byzantine Empire, claim back eastern Thrace with Constantinople and the Asia Minor coast and establish a new Paleologian line. They are marginal, very few and frankly just lunatic, harmless idiots and of course nobody listens to them. But they exist nevertheless, in the outer fringes of the Greek society. The "Megali Idea" died out along with countless Greeks in the "Minor Asia catastrophe" as we call what happened in 1922. It is written in our constitution that we do not claim land that belongs to another country and shall do nothing to facilitate any such claim.

OTOH, it is official state policy of Turkey that the Aegean Islands AND Crete should belong to Turkey.

Conclusions, comments - yours.

Alparslan, later I am going to provide you with a couple of links about the official policy of the Turkish state.

Now about Byzantion... I think you folks should start to read non-Turk historians fairly quickly.

Byzantion was established as a Greek colony in the 7th century BC (founding of the city: 660 BC) by the Greek city of Megara, and according to several sources in the settling some Chalkidonians took part as well. The founder of the city was named Vyzas and he was of course a Megarean. There are well-documented recordes of the colony foundation, you know.

It flurished, due to its position, fairly quickly and in the days before the Peloponesian war it was a member of the Athenian aliance. At some point of time the Athenian have moved in Byzantion a fair number of Athenian settlers too.

Byzantion has survived the Roman times and when Constantinus was looking for a suitable new capital, he was convinced that the magnificent location of the city, was fitting the "new Rome".

Better now?

This is not related with jihad . The issue is related with "do we live in a world of caos or not?" . US was not ethic to attack Iraq. They lied continously. The aim is obvious they want more and more. They want to steal oil and control it.

USA has offered us 30 billion once more BILLION dollar to us to open our borders to US troops to attack Iraq from the north. But Turkey has refused this.

Turkey and Turks support the war on real terrorists as in the case of Afganistan. Turkey is commanding the operation in Afganistan now........ Aren't they Muslim? (Taliban and Vahabis of Arabia were the best allies of USA once. They are monsters created by USA but they bring disaster to the world)  

Do you see opposing to US in Iraq as a matter of being Muslim or Christian?

This is a matter of humanity. They bombed and killed hundreds of thousands civilians. They have polluted the country via their uranium in their bombs.

Iraq become a country of caos on the edge of a civil war and a hu�ge environmental pollution. 

If USA goes on with this same mentality the effects of this will be much more dangerous for the world than Taliban or Vahabis issues.