Turks in Bulgaria (Flame-War Warning)

Originally posted by ManOwaRadO Slavs are over 300 000 000!   Russia - 145-100 Million Slavs-110 million Rest are Chechens,Kazakhs,Tatars,Bashirks,Ingusg,Laz,Dagestani,Abkhazian,Azeris,Cuvash..etcf Ukraine - 54(Under 48 million last census) Poland - 39 Belarus - 10(under 10 mil Cheh - 10 Serbia - 10 not in good days.7.5 million out of whome some half million arent Slavs HUngarians,Romanians,Albanians..etc Kosovo is 2 mill around 95% Albanian Bulgaria - 7 6.5 million Bulgars,rest Turks,Pomaks, Slovakia - 5 Croatia - 4 Bosna - 4- i dont feel like Slav, and im from Bosnia Slovenia - 2 Macedonia - 2/ 700 000 Albanians or one third of population, not Slavs   The people of this countries are not each slavs, but in the rest of the world there is other milions of slavs

and in greece most of gypsies speaking turkish?

Originally posted by bleda Originally posted by Draco Valerious and in greece most of gypsies speaking turkish?   Wrong. are u sure?   in selanik ,i talked turkish  to gypsies

Actually many of the Mikroasian Greeks also speak Turkish. I talked to such a Greek in Turkish in Solun (Thessaloniki/Selanik/Salonique). You can hear some more Mikroasian Greeks tell their stories in Turkish here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/iki_kere_yabanci/iki_kere_yabanci_1.ram

It is really funny for me because the way Greeks speak Turkish is very similar to our Turkish dialect.


Edited by bg_turk - 04-Jun-2006 at 13:59

Actually many of the Mikroasian Greeks also speak Turkish.

Edited by Draco Valerious - 04-Jun-2006 at 14:05

 i hear in south america,armenians speaking turkish 

Originally posted by Draco Valerious Actually many of the Mikroasian Greeks also speak Turkish.   Maybe back in 1920's,but not now.There are some speaking them ,but quite old.

mostly old genarations knows turkish,when i was in selanik ,most of greeks are very friendly.and selanik twins of izmir.

ok draco we ask our armenians members .

Originally posted by bleda ok draco we ask our armenians members .

I do not know about South America. But it is true for old Armenians in Bulgaria ... my headmaster in Bulgaria was an Armenian, and he spoke Turkish. Others understand it but cannot speak it.

There are now newer Armenian immigrants in Bulgaria (like my neighbours) and they know no Turkish. Also they speak Armenian in a very different way from the way  the original Bulgarian Armenians speak. An Armenian friend was explaining the differences but I cannot remember now.


Edited by bg_turk - 04-Jun-2006 at 14:29

bleda, there are Greeks who speak turkish, but they are not refugees from Asia Minor, but refugees from Constantinople, when they were forced to leave Turkey in 1955. I know such people (they were almost 200.000, quite many), and naturally most of them speak turkish well.
Gypsies in Greece speak Roma and Greek. I don't know what exactly that is (it's supposed to be a Indian sort of language). There's a good chance they have turksih elements, but I really can't know that. I heard in a bus a gypsy woman's name was 'Aise' and not 'Erato' as in Greek television.
Digenis, there are Turks living in our islands of eastern Aegean (Dodecanese) such as Rhodos, Kos etc. I didn't know that until this year when I met a people from Kos and Rhodos (in the University). Their number is about this 1000-2000. I assume that is because we took these islands long after the population exchange.

25.000 ???

ps :i agree i ve been in Rhodes! Really beautiful!