Turks not only claim every Greek historical figure to be theirs, but also Greek foods! They even have came up with a set of...standards for making...Baklava!!! Baklava is well-known in the entire Middle East and the Balkans, not just Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. However, its origins are Greek since they come from Asia Minor Greek cities. Those cities, such as Smyrna, Constantinople, Cappadocia, Ephesus, and others continued thriving even after the fall of the ancient world and they existed in the Byzantine Empire that is the East Roman Empire whose culture and language were Greek and their religion was ancient Christianity and later on the great schism of 1054 it was the Greek Orthodox Christianity. After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 when the Byzantine Empire became part of the Ottoman Empire, some Greeks continued working for the Imperial court which from Byzantine turned to Ottoman. Some of them were cooks. Those Greek cooks spread kebab/souvlaki, baklava, feta cheese, keftes/keftedes/meatballs, dolmas/domades/dolmadakia, Imam Baildi and so many other dishes to the Ottoman Turks, but the names became Turkish on purpose by the Turks. Through trade those foods were spread to the entire Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and even Central Asia and became well-known to the West through tourism, trade, discovery, and exploration that grew more and more as the world was getting modernized in the Early Modern Times. So, Turkish claims are totally inept and come and a product of Islamic fanaticism and imperialism, not mere nationalism...

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