1) I said, today's Crimean native Turks are descendants of Crimean natives who lived a few centuries earlier. Is it hard to get into your brain?
2) Crimean Tatars are not Mongols, but contrary they are Turks. Your history knowledge lacks.
3) People join NATO, because of existing Russian threat. You make threats, more countries will join NATO eventually.
The earliest inhabitans of the Crimean Peninsula were the Tauri people and here are some interesting facts about these people
The
Tauri (
/ˈtaʊəri/; Ταῦροι in
Ancient Greek), also
Scythotauri,
Tauri Scythae,
Tauroscythae (
Pliny,
H. N. 4.85) were a people settled on the southern coast of the
Crimea peninsula, inhabiting the
Crimean Mountains and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the
Black Sea. They gave their name to the peninsula, which was known in ancient times as
Taurica,
Taurida and
Tauris.
In his
Histories,
Herodotus describes the Tauri as living "by plundering and war". They became famous for their worship of a virgin goddess, to whom they sacrificed shipwrecked travellers and waylaid Greeks.
[1] He makes a point of them living in
Scythia geographically without themselves being
Scythians.
[2]. Pritsak and Golb (1982) believe they were a
Turkic people.
[3]
The Greeks
identified the Tauric goddess with
Artemis Tauropolos or with
Iphigeneia, daughter of
Agamemnon. The Tauric custom of
human sacrificeinspired the Greek legends of
Iphigeneia and
Orestes, recounted in
Iphigeneia in Tauris by the playwright
Euripides.
According to Herodotus, the manner of their sacrifice was to beat the head with a club and remove the head; then they either buried the body or threw it off a cliff, and lastly nailed the head to a cross. Prisoners of war likewise had their heads removed, and the head was then put onto a tall pole and placed at their house "in order that the whole house may be under their protection".
Although the Crimean coast eventually came to be dominated by Greek (and subsequently
Roman) colonies, notably the one at
Chersonesos, the Tauri remained a major threat to Greek power in the region. They engaged in piracy against ships on the Black Sea, mounting raids from their base at Symbolon (today's
Balaklava). By the 2nd century BC they had become subject-allies of the Scythian king
Scilurus.
Name
The word Tauri probably means "mountaineers",
[4][5] which is supposed to be derived from an old root "
Tau" meaning "a mountain".
[6][7] This word appears to have one common root in several languages and simply signifies a mountain.
[8] Toira in Assyrian means "a mountain" or "a chain of mountains", in Turkic languages
tau signifies "a mountain", "a round or high building", "a rampart", the Celts called a "tower" or "rampart"
tor,
tour.
[9][10]
Turkey will never confront the Russian navy. As for aggressive stance towards NATO, what aggression was their on Russia's side? Is it Russia that has been expanding into western Europe? Last time i checked NATO kept expanding on Russia's borders, threatening them with missile shields, conducting military exercises near the Russian border, and sending foreign soldiers and military equipment near the Russian borders.
