Even Greeks started to make fun with our President's stupid statesment.
Tayyip should kick PKK Advisors out of Presidency Palace. What was he thinking....
They have forgatten taking Syria.
Firstly They should take all Syria.
Because half of Greek population is Syrian refugess.
Let Greek take Syriaaa.
Syriaa is HELENN, Syria is Greeceeeeeeee
Why they dont remember origin of Greeks.
The history of Greeks in Syria traditionally begins with
Alexander the Great’s conquest of the
Persian Empire. In the aftermath of Alexander's death, his empire was divided into several successor states, and thus ushering in the beginning of the Hellenistic Age. For the Levant and Mesopotamia, it meant coming under the control of
Seleucus I Nicator and the
Seleucid Empire. The Hellenistic period was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization.
[5] Ethnic Greek colonists came from all parts of the Greek world, not, as before, from a specific "mother city".
[6] The main centers of this new cultural expansion of Hellenism in the Levant were cities like Antioch, and the other cities of the
Tetrapolis Seleukis. The mixture of Greek-speakers gave birth to a common Attic-based dialect, known as
Koine Greek, which became the lingua franca throughout the Hellenistic world.
The
Greek presence in Syria began in the 7th century BC and became more prominent during the
Hellenistic period and when the
Seleucid Empirewas centered there. Today, there is a Greek community of about 44,500 in
Syria, most of whom have Syrian nationality and who live mainly in
Aleppo,
Baniyas,
Tartous (the country's main trading and financial centre), and
Damascus, the capital.
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