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UKRAINE: Putin TO Crimean Tatars: "The Greeks were here before you and me"
pravda.com.ua ^ | Friday, May 16, 2014 , 18:08

Posted on 05/16/2014 9:30:48 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

GOOGLE TRANSLATION: "Russian President Vladimir Putin has called into question the STATUS of the Crimean Tatars as an indigenous people of Crimea.

According to the Russian service Bi -bi -si, a statement he made at a special meeting of the Crimean Tatar communities in his Sochi residence.

Thus, in response to the proposal of veteran nationalist movement Ayder Mustafayeva provide Crimean Tatars that status Putin said that this "issue requires careful consideration."

According to the Russian president, on the peninsula were other repressed peoples in the Soviet era.

"They (the Greeks) were there before us. Why we need the most careful way to see it all," - said Putin.

"If you have any concerns that a decree was signed by me (on the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars), is not an absolute guarantee that there is contained inside, one might think that in addition to such concerns arose. I willing to think along with you,"- he said.

As you know, May 16, BANNED psevdovlada Crimean Crimean Tatars TO hold a rally on the day of memory of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimea. [Many are expected to come anyway]

At the SAME TIME, Putin officially announced SUPPORT for the Crimean Tatars, claiming that the alleged Russia will do everything to make people feel full owners of their land.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crimea; putin; tartars; tatars
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To: Verginius Rufus

Problem is, there’s no ancient Khazar, or even an ancient Israelite around when you need them.


21 posted on 05/16/2014 12:40:22 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: MUDDOG

yeah the Catholic West preferred Muslims over Christian “heretics”.


22 posted on 05/16/2014 12:50:08 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: virgil

I don’t know if there are any identifiably Khazar cemeteries from the Middle Ages...if so maybe some Khazar DNA could be extracted from some of the bones. But they may have been a mix of different backgrounds just like the Huns (for the same reason—the Khazar men having children by women they had enslaved).


23 posted on 05/16/2014 3:18:58 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DariusBane
In 1571 the sultan was hopeful of getting help from "Lutherans" (some of whom may have been non-Lutheran Protestants) when he was fighting the Venetians and their allies in the Cypriot War.

At Kosovo in 1389 many of the troops fighting on the side of the Serbian king were Catholics. The pope kept trying to launch Crusades against the Turks without much luck. There were efforts in the 1200s and in the period just before the fall of Constantinople to end the schism between Rome and Constantinople, which failed because of lack of support on the Orthodox side. The Greeks preferred being ruled by the Turks to being reunited with Rome.

When the Turks were overrunning Hungary and threatening Vienna, the French were allied with the Turks.

24 posted on 05/16/2014 3:28:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

1204 A.D. has something to do with that.


25 posted on 05/16/2014 9:05:30 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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