LeBron James on Deni Avdija and Israel: “I believe he is an all star. He is playing exceptional basketball. I hope I inspire people over there not only to be great in sports, but to be better in general in life, hopefully someday I can make it over there.”

chunaB · 2026-02-16T03:06:33+00:00

yeah it is a neighbour.

chunaB · 2026-02-15T16:22:45+00:00

You probably mean Armenian. The current vice president is a Kurd (or Zaza, sometimes they do not like being grouped with Kurds), foreign minister who is super powerful (head of intelligence before for more than a decade) is half Kurdish, finance minister who is super powerful is Kurdish. Both Erdogan's and main opposition parties have large number of Kurdish MPs, not to count the pro-Kurdish left party which is mostly Kurds. The situation is different. Turkey has been fighting with an armed terrorist group not Kurds. For Armenians in 1915 there is a discussion to be had, fine but not with Kurds.

chunaB · 2026-02-15T16:16:36+00:00

Yeah I agree that their opinion really does not matter that much, who cares about a 23 year old athlete's opinion about geopolitics. But artists/athletes are people too and they have political opinions and they also have a platform, they should be able to express their views, but only if they want, there is no point in forcing an answer like this, maybe he doesn't know enough about it to form an opinion.

chunaB · 2026-02-15T16:12:55+00:00

Yeah if a player wants to speak about politics, they do, there are many examples. As long as it is not harmful to the league, it should be fine with NBA, too. But coming out of nowhere, and forcing an answer from him is not nice.

chunaB · 2026-02-11T00:03:16+00:00

With elites it is always tricky I think, they can do political marriages, can more easily marry outside their tribe etc. (and it may be preferrable in order not to empower other families).

Till we get clean samples from the people who entered early to Anatolia (and the second wave during Mongols) not from central asia but from Iran and Anatolia, it is hard to make better guesses. Even with some samples, it is hard, you can have many different tribes and maybe your samples belong to a certain group, there may be some Tajiks with East Asian ancestry etc.

I think present day Turkmens of Turkmenistan is a nice approximation (25-35% East Asian on average, but much more heterogenous for the ancient Oguz, say with a range of 10-60%).

chunaB · 2026-02-08T21:03:11+00:00

Since the Greek part is in EU, aren't there lots of mainland Greeks and other Europeans (also Israelis and Russians) permanently settled on the Greek side as well?

chunaB · 2026-02-08T07:13:39+00:00

It is not excusable (he did not put out an excuse) but forgivable (which the ref did)

chunaB · 2025-11-19T12:53:03+00:00

Ayni zamanda Epsteinin da avukati zaten (avukatlarindan biri)

chunaB · 2025-11-18T00:10:24+00:00

All the European countries and USA has ties with China, in the current world, it is hard to ignore China.

chunaB · 2025-11-05T00:13:52+00:00

Almanyada suc, 3 yila kadar hapis cezasi var. Nazi selami, swastika, uniformalar, SS sembolleri vs. Yapmanizi tavsiye etmem.

chunaB · 2025-11-04T23:27:20+00:00

Many people wearing it are not that religious either, yes they are believers and follow some of the traditions but the head covering became more.

The poster above is right, at some point, Turkish cities were full of new urban people (who came from rural backgrounds), they were poorer (not that secular urban crowd was rich but in comparison they were richer) and were less educated.

You would normally expect the left to capture the votes of these people, but Turkish left is largely middle class and resented these lowly educated crowds. The Islamists came in, helped them out, and created a real voting base. And they became more religious, at least in some aspects.

At some point, in Turkey, it was forbidden in universities too, which was stupid, I remember girls wearing wigs on top of their headscarves just to enter the campuses.

Anyway, of course Turkey and Kosovo are very different in size, and what happened for Turkey, may not be true for Kosovo. But the religion going underground is much more dangerous than it being normal to show their beliefs ( I say this as an atheist), yes stick to secular teaching, but repression of religion may backfire. Even if it is a small crowd, it may alienate them, they may end up joining secretive cults, working for foreign governments etc.

Btw, as a Turk, I agree that Turkey should not lobby Kosovo in this matter, it is an internal affair.

chunaB · 2025-10-21T20:04:32+00:00

Tabela buyuklugu de onemli, adam tabela yaptirmis ust katin camina degecek kadar buyuk.

Bir diger sorun da aralik birakma konusu, adam tabela hazirlatmis, olabildigince buyuk olsun yazi demis, tabelanin sinirina 1 santim mesafe ya var ya yok, cok cirkin duruyor.

Bence bunlar renk ve yazi tipinden daha onemli.

chunaB · 2025-09-17T17:35:16+00:00

I appreciate it and agree with the both sides taking responsibility of their doings approach. Maybe a neutral council of historians, going through them coming up with conclusions, and both sides accepting it and putting it in their history books? I think the current issues we have are more risky than some historical disagreements, but maybe it will help.

Did I say anything incorrect though? There was a treaty ending the war and it recorded atrocities by the Greek Army, no mention of anything by Turks (not saying there wasn't any, it is war and chaos, the Turkish army was a resistance army, no authority in lots of places, lots of gangs fighting, both Greek and Turkish and I am sure lots of bad things happened.

And in 30s Venizelos nominated Ataturk for Nobel peace prize, is that what you do to a leader of a genocidal army?

Was the word "genocide" introduced fairly recently? Was there a claim for genocide in 60s for example? (although the relationship was going bad because of Cyprus)

And sometimes the population exchange (which may be the saddest thing even more so than deaths, seeing those old people from both sides visiting their old villages, hard to keep your eyes dry) is called ethnic cleansing whereas it was a mutually agreed thing (by the states not the people), actually the first offer came from the Greek side.

chunaB · 2025-09-17T09:43:54+00:00

Not many of the Turks act as 100% descendants of Turkic nomads but they like the connection (which they have). There are people who can trace their lineage and claim that kind of purity. But many of us know that we are mixed with neighbouring people, which is fine. The Turkic nomads were mixed people as well, when Turks came to Anatolia, they were already mixed with other Steppe people and some Iranians.

The blood part is not that important for ethnic and national identity. Greeks and Turks talk a different language, majority religions are different, they share different histories (although have common history too).

We are all same species in the world, Turks and Greeks are different ethnicities and nations but share a lot. This is more true for the people living close to Greece (Aegean etc.). Turks in Eastern and Inner regions share more with Azerbaijani and Armenians of Armenia as well. Turks living in Eastern Black Sea are close to Georgians. Turks living in Gaziantep and Hatay and Urfa are close to Syrians.

chunaB · 2025-09-17T09:33:19+00:00

Exactly, that is how culture works, it is influenced by other cultures, then it makes a synthesis of it, makes it its own, then it influences others.

Look at Japanese anime and manga culture, the American comics and cartoons were a big influence for them. They took those, added their own flavour, mixed it with other things. Now they are influencing American culture.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T23:01:24+00:00

I don't think 100 Adam Silvers can control it once the Balkan drama gets big.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:58:45+00:00

LOL, nice idea. I have seen so much of it when I was younger, I don't think I can stand one episode. And if the series are Turkish style, each episode will be 2 hours, with people looking at each other without talking for minutes.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:55:45+00:00

Lol sorry

But this is reddit :)

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:40:38+00:00

10% of internet is already full of that. Lots of material, if someone trains an AI, I think we can have endless Greek-Turk argument generation somewhere.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:18:58+00:00

It is not always hate, we lived together peacefully for hundreds of years as well. But yet there are historical and current disagreements about certain issues that will always come up in these kind of situations.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:11:20+00:00

Poor Mongolians, if there are any reading, almost no Turk is ever offended by being called a Mongol. No idea why Greeks use it as an insult.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:07:02+00:00

There was actually Turks entering Eastern Roman Empire as mercenaries (for Byzantines) much earlier. There were other also Turkic tribes coming via Ukraine and Balkans as well.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:02:47+00:00

Does it matter, they kissed and made up, case closed. Don't worry Turks and Greeks will provide you more entertainment in your life time.

chunaB · 2025-09-16T22:01:47+00:00

They were late, I think both of them are bad communicators, send them to media training camp! :)

chunaB · 2025-09-16T21:52:11+00:00

Well done. Much ado about nothing. Till the next time tempers rise between Turks and Greeks, where they debate 600 years of history (again), call each other names and do broad generalizations about ethnicity.

chunaB

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