montelatici
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- Feb 5, 2014
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Well you can read the following posts.I lived in Turkey for 2 years. I have had many friends who are Turkish. They do not consider themselves as Arabs. They are Asian. It is Asia Minor, not the Middle East. Turkish people in no way consider themselves Arab. Only about one percent of Turkish people even speak Arabic. Arabs, and I've lived in the ME too, do not consider Turks as Arabs. No one with any knowledge of this issue considers Turks as Arabs. Their history is not Arabic. They are not Arabic. As well, Turkish culture is not the same as Arabic culture: you don't know that because you have lived in neither place. And Turkish food is far more similar, almost identical in fact, to Greek food, not Arabic food. You are very ignorant about this issue.LMAO The Turks are NOT Arabs. Too funny.The Arabs greatly contributed to construction/structure technique, math, poetry, and tradition in the past, but they did lost more than given instead of adopting the changing world and advance from the 7th century, the Turks are excellent 'indicator' for it. [and yes they are Arabs]
They are Asians. Do you think Indonesians are also Arabs? Do you think all Muslims are Arabs? Too fucking funny.
Almost all of what we call "the middle east" is in Asia.
Esmeralda is right Turks are not Arab they speak a whole different language and different culture.
Thing is Turks share Arab origins, cultural aspects and religion with 85-90% of the Arabs, the main point in this debate I was trying to make is that -lets say- ME remained somewhere behind, and mostly by Arabs.
That is patently untrue. Outside of religion, the Turks have very little in common with the Arabs. The Jews have far more in common with Arabs culturally.