2007-10-21 09:16:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Pontos hasn't got any significant Greek population. After the exchange of populations in 1924 very few Greeks remained. The majority of them are now Muslims with Turkish names and only few speak Greek. So Pontos is out of question! From what I know there wasn't and there isn't any separative movement from the Muslims Greeks of Pontus. So there isn't any question actually about independence!
As for Kurdistan is a completely different subject and highly controversial! Turkey is not the only country that has Kurdish population. There are also Kurdish in Iran, Irak, and Syria.
The best solution is for Turkey to grand a level of local autonomy in Turkish Kurdistan. Maybe something like Wales in UK!
Complete independence can happen only if every country in the region agrees to give a small part to a new Kurdish state! From what I can see it is almost impossible!
Turkey can only gain if they manage peacefully to solve the Kurdish problem!
Not likely in the near future!
2007-10-22 21:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by ragzeus 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Well, Turkish people are mainly of Kurdish, Armenian, Greek, Persian and Arab origin, a bunch of people with such different cultures. (If I’m not mistaken, the actual, genuine Turks -the ones with Asian characteristics - are only 2% of the modern Turkish population.) Pontos was a Greek land, as Cappadocia and the Ionian (West) coast of Turkey. The majotiry of the Turkish people there are of Greek origin.
Officially Turkey is governed by an elected government (mainly Muslims) but unofficially it’s the Army-Kemalists that holds the power. So the dissimilar of the two different powers in Turkey but also the fact that the different ethnic groups that consists Turkish population begin to realize their actual origin, are bringing many problems in Turkey at the moment. I don’t know if independent Kurdistan and Pontos will bring peace to Turkey -at least not soon after they’ll gain their possible independence- but I want to believe it will.
2007-10-22 19:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by Wicked Apathy 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
2007-10-22 20:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
What is PONTOS?
2007-10-21 15:42:04 · answer #4 · answered by marvinsussman@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋