"Pure Turkishness...
Thursday, December 02 2004 @ 06:30 AM Central Standard Time
By Burak Bekdil
The paranoia is both unjustified and justified: It is unjustified because of demographic reasons. Few Turks who consider themselves as 'majority Turks' -- pure, Sunni Muslim Turks -- are probably what they believe they are. Intercultural marriages both during the Ottoman and Republican times, plus the fact that Anatolia has always been a mosaic of scores of ethnicities suggest that it is silly to talk of 'pure Turks' and 'pure non-Turks.'"
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