Eh, beg to differ. The Ottoman EMPIRE was very diverse (Christian Europeans, Christians in the Middle East / North Africa, Muslims, Jewish, Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Greeks, etc.) and it lasted 700+ years.
Turkey of today is not very diverse. They genocided Greek Christians and Armenian Christians and expelled a shit ton more. Today like 90% is Turk, most of the rest is Kurdish, and a handful of Arabs. Christians/Greeks/etc were basically exterminated.
If the European powers hadn't fucked over the Greeks after WW1, pretty much the entire coastline of Turkey, most of the European side near Istanbul, and most of the Black Sea coast, would have been Greek majority and should have been part of Greece.
Eh, beg to differ. The Ottoman EMPIRE was very diverse (Christian Europeans, Christians in the Middle East / North Africa, Muslims, Jewish, Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Greeks, etc.) and it lasted 700+ years.
Turkey of today is not very diverse. They genocided Greek Christians and Armenian Christians and expelled a shit ton more. Today like 90% is Turk, most of the rest is Kurdish, and a handful of Arabs. Christians/Greeks/etc were basically exterminated.
If the European powers hadn't fucked over the Greeks after WW1, pretty much the entire coastline of Turkey, most of the European side near Istanbul, and most of the Black Sea coast, would have been Greek majority and should have been part of Greece.
So yeah, genocide is very effective.