Anatolianism

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Anatolianism

Anatolianism is based in a historical and racial reality which does not deny but celebrates the cultures and civilisations of its ancestors. In this respect at least, Anatolianism is to Kemalism what Bulgarism is to Chingisidism.

The main thrust of Anatolianism, what is most offensive for Kemalists, is that it does not hold that Anatolia’s Turkic majority population are racially Turkic. Instead, Anatolianism affirms them to be a melting pot of Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Kurds, Arabs and Slavs who were Turkified largely between the 12th and 18th centuries. The process of Turkification was made possible only after the influx of Turcoman settlers into Anatolia following the Seljuk defeat of the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.

Because they cannot deny that few Anatolian Turks display truly Mongoloid features such as those common to most Central Asian Turks, Kemalists claim that Anatolian Turks descend from a unique “white race� of Turks rather than admit to their non-Turkic heritage as Anatolianists do.

Anatolianism is ordinarily confined to the realm of ideological debate. If it were to develop a political agenda, the logical aspiration would be for the Turkish Republic to evolve into an Anatolian Federation or a United Anatolian Emirates in which each native ethnic group is granted full autonomy within a shared international border. Political Anatolianism would have enough confidence in itself as a just cause to grant the indigenous non-Turkic nations the human rights denied to them by the Kemalists. As Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Georgians, Greeks, Kurds, etc., are not Turkic, they would not be compelled to call themselves Turkish nor to speak the Turkish language.

The Anatolian Federation or Emirates would naturally be Eurocentric and Islamic, moving its capital back to European Istanbul at the outset. For it to be recognised as the true heir to Byzantium and to seriously endear the non-Muslim Greeks towards Islam, the Anatolian state would need to adopt a strategy of Hellenisation (or re-Hellenisation) in western Anatolia. This would translate to the conversion of written Turkish from the Latin to the Greek alphabet, leaving the autonomous nations of non-Turkic Anatolia to utilise their own scripts (i.e. Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Georgian and a modified Greek alphabet for the Pontians). The Anatolian state would also remove all travel restrictions from Greeks seeking to visit western Anatolia as well as allow Greeks to resettle in Ionia, thereby affectively abolishing the Treaty of Lausanne unilaterally. In time, Hellenic culture and west Anatolian Islamic culture would converge as one.

Source: forum.europeans.ws > Storm from the East

[Euklid]

Pretty much utopic dreams. But if the Turks want to reinstate their old glory, undeniably they should allow the respective communities to reform their colours again.