| This quiz is probably to easy, but that's just my opinion. Anyone who knows Turkey's history and location could guess pretty easily.
@ Nol_Solano:
Well, at the risk of setting off a series of arguments, the whole eastern part of Turkey has historically had an ethnic Armenian majority, even predating Byzantine times. The Kingdom of Armenia at one point stretched down to the Mediterranean, and eastward into what is now northwest Iran (which still has a large Armenian population, along with Azeris, Kurds, Turkomen, Talysh and Gilaki). The Middle East has always been a mixture of ethnic groups, cultures, languages, religions and political entities. In fact, I argue that the Armenian genocide (as well as the genocides against the Greeks, Assyrians and Kurds, and suppression of Arabs) was the result of westernization and the 19th century idea of the 'nation state.'
@ Ostemanden:
No, because just having an ethnically Turkish majority does not make it part of Turkey. The Azerbaijanis, Tatars, Turkomen, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Yakuts and other ethnic groups across Asia are also 'Turks,' yet they have their own countries or autonomous regions (or just exist as minorities in non-Turkic states like Iran, Armenia or Ukraine). Anyway, as others have pointed out, Turkey considers Northern Cyprus to be an independent state. Its much like trying to argue that Cyprus is Greece because the majority of the population is ethnically Greek and speaks Greek. |
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