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Michali, have had a quick read through the proposal and view it as a very worthy idea. I'm neither
Turkish or Greek, but take a great interest in the region and its peoples. This group could take on controversial topics, such as the massacres of Muslims in the Peleponnese during 1821 or the Istanbul
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This is an incomplete list of articles that could be mentioned here, as the process of article-gathering has just started. Feel free to add to the list articles that you feel a cool minded board made of turkish and greek wikipedians can help you improve. Remember to add a small description of the
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which can serve as a pattern for naming future articles and categories. The other alternative is to categorise people like
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Yeah my friend that's the reason, you are right. If it was so then shouldn't be any proper article on
Ottoman empire on your country, on your airports, on your language in greek wikipedia. But there are, as exist articles on Barbarossa, on spahes, on yanissaries and many other features of your
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I strongly support such a initiative. These contacts are essential if the peoples are to eventually understand each other. After years of contact with Greeks, I see that people of two nations know surprisingly little about each other. I am a
Turkish academician, grandparents from Thessaloniki,
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Israeli-Palestinian debate. It has become common to have a range of articles (sensitive to one or both sides of the dispute) form a "trenchline" with POV tags to denote the boundary and combatant enemy "armies" of wikipedians ready to engage in edit warring the moment an edit crosses the line.
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I wrote a notice on this in
Turkish wikipedia's Community Portal. I will paraphrase it from time to time to keep it on the agenda. I am prone to thinking that a 'piano piano!' approach with 'molto molto!' participation would be judicious. Is there a way we could get an initiative like
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Turkish articles that don't concern you alone. You are pushing Greek POV everywhere. I was wondering why Greek Knowledge (XXG) hasn't reached 10,000 articles, now I know why, because they are all busy editing Turkey related articles on English Knowledge
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I think it's a good idea. As far as I can see though, there is little conflict and/or mistrust between Greek and
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civilization and many more to come in due time. Anyway fanatism does not help either of thesse two nations. Count me in and pls notify. I can contribute in anthropolological and archaeological articles most in cooperation with anybody--
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It is a noble effort and I hope it comes to fruition. We have a lot in common as a people (for example, I know for a fact that I'm 1/64 Turkish) and we shouldn't let a few provocators from each side set the tone of the discussion.
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One of the problems I've encountered is to how to deal with the Greeks and
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By chance, I noticed this initiative. I have a great interest in history. I do not know what's going to be the exact form of this initiative, but I'd love to help, if I may.
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This is an article with NPOV issues. On the talk page hot headed editors from both sides have taken to rambling and talking about past events irrelevant to the article.
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Hi, I'd propose an idea to board members and would appreciate their opinions on it. I've been busy categorising the people on the
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Sorry but in Izmır, there is Turks.. Not Greeks.If you will write Izmir in Greekian, write California in Aztecian..Try this!!!--
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