Anonymous #1 21h

He was prob talking about this guy

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Anonymous #1 21h

Like we also need to talk about how Muslim communities within the Balkans have been demonized and expelled. Crete once had a massive Muslim population, themselves predominantly Greek-speaking. They were expelled as part of the population exchange (which Turkey themselves helped instigate as a project to replace Christian villages they genocided). I’ve seen the remnants of the Turkish quarters in Kavala and Thessaloniki. Their communities were expelled too for something they couldn’t control.

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Anonymous #2 21h

I mean he engaged with my comment more than #1 so I feel it was reasonable to assume this was also about me. He said people. There were only two people.

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Anonymous #1 19h

I meant 1, you’re cool

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Anonymous justinian 19h

Ah ok. Btw if you’re ever in Athens, I recommend checking out the Benaki Museum. There’s tons of museums to choose from obviously, but the Benaki Museum is the only one that covers Greek history and culture under ottoman rule. They’ve got a ton of really incredible clothing sets and entire rooms from ottoman era Crete.

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Anonymous #1 19h

It seems like modern Greek historiography tries to minimize ottoman cultural influence as much as possible, but it’s super cool seeing how Turkish and Greek culture interacted on Crete. Those Cretan Muslim communities still exist today in diaspora, mostly in Turkey, but there’s villages in Lebanon and Syria which still speak Greek.

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