I referred to this disease among certain groups of people within certain ethnic groups in the region. Yet to see this disease in Arabs other than a very small minority namely due to Arabs not claiming foreign land even if inhabited by Arabs by large. Or land being one of the last things that we need in this world.
Ironically those people often make a big deal of unity in the region but a slight comment and they are ready to bomb capital cities etc.
There is a difference between nationalism and patriotism and stupidity. A few Turkish users in this thread (Berkant, Fenasi Kerim and that damm1t) seem to have missed this "little" detail.
Funnily enough such people remind me of the stateless Kurds (the irony) when it comes to territorial claims in Iraq and Syria.
Turkey. After all there are some 2-2.5 million Turkish Arabs (your current First Lady), not including the Syrian refugees. Maybe is it you? You could be Arab. You never know given the Turkish surname law.
The
Surname Law (
Turkish:
Soyadı Kanunu) of the
Republic of Turkey was adopted on June 21, 1934.
[1] The law requires all citizens of Turkey to adopt the use of hereditary, fixed,
surnames. Much of the population, particularly in the cities as well as Turkey's
Christian and
Jewish citizens, already had surnames, and all families had names by which they were known locally. The Surname Law of 1934 enforced not only the use of official surnames but also stipulated that citizens choose
Turkish names. Until it was repealed in 2013 in Turkey the eldest male was the head of household and the law appointed him to choose the surname. However in his absence, death or mental incapacitation the wife would do so.
[2]
This law was modeled after a 1926 Fascist
Italianization law 'restoring' German, Slovene and Croat surnames to their 'original Italian form'.
[3][4] (something in common with that wannabe Italian Guatemalan troll on PDF)
As a result, many
Greeks,
Bulgarians,
Albanians,
Bosniaks,
Jews,
Arabs,
Armenians,
Assyrians,
Georgians and
Kurds were and are still forced to adopt last names of a more Turkish rendition,
[6] sometimes directly translating their original surnames, or otherwise just replacing markers such as
Pontic Greek “‑ides” (son of) with Turkish “‑oğlu” (
Kazantzoglou,
Mitroglou,
Mouratoglou, etc.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname_Law
Don't get angry again.