Yes thats what me and my sister said to eachother* But i just dont know why she and the rest of my family have such a deep hate for them??? and the jews????? i just cant understand at all???

Jesus...... Nicolas, you might want to read some neutral books on the subject.
your description is oversimplistic and naive. EVERY empire/country has dirty hands with no exception.
it is no escuse for recreating and maintaining hate.
We have our own share in what has happened e.g. in Cyprus and Asia Minor.
A good patriot can see the past with a critic view. That is exactly what we ask from our neighbours regarding the Armenian genocide and the attrocities in Pontus etc.

So......Do not forget and respect the victims on BOTH sides BUT it is time to coexist in peace and spend those $$$ on health and education instead of buying F16.

You get your history from youtube?? Fascinating.....

The official history says something like, "The Turks migrated from central Asia and took over Asia Minor..." But there was also a huge amount of Turkification. Not necessarily forced as in Islam it really didn't matte what language you spoke. But when people accepted Islam, they also began intermarrying with Turks, and once the langage was gone - well, what's a Turk and what's a Greek? Most Turks don't look very Central Asian.

Nicolas - it's easy to say "The Turks did such-and-such." Yes, some of "them" did. But I'm an American of Greek extraction living in Istanbul and nobody has every done anything like that to me. The Ottoman Empire was...an empire. It replaced the Byzantine Empire - which was the eastern part of the Roman Empire after Rome fell. They were empires. They all took what they had from other peoples. So if you put it all into perspective...

Add to this what happened to the Turks in many parts of Greece in 1821 - this stuff isn't talked about much in Greece though it is beginning to be admitted now. (And being out of living memory, it's easy to forget.) The Turks of Athens and the Peloponnese were mostly slaughtere, men, women and children. Kolokotronis wrote proudly that the corpses of Turks were so many on the streets of Athens that his horses' hooves did not touch the ground. These were not the oppressors, they were just people who happened to be born there.

If you read Greek, read the "Exodos" books from the Melpo Merlie Center for Asia Minor Studies. It is a collection of accounts of refugees from Asia Minor. You will be struck by how many of them speak of how well the got along with the Turks before the Greeks invaded, and how their Turkish neighbors tried to help them. My own grandfather was from Marmara Island, and he only ever spoke of Turks as neighbors and friends.

I recently helped with the editing of a documentary about the Greeks of Livissi and Makri (Fethiye). They went back to the villages and talked with locals, I remember in particular one very old woman, one of the very few who was old enough at the time to remember the Greek neighbors. When she told of the greeks leaving, she still was crying. And she still had a chest left to her by her Greek friend, with her trousseau, which she kept untouched to give back to her when she returned.

It is one thing to hate the policies that came out of Athens and Ankara and turn people against each other, and another to hate the people who had nothing to do with it. Even in "recent" history - the "Septemvriana" (the pogroms in September 1955) - I look at those pictures and imagine the terror of people here - and then remember that even the youngest of the men in those pictures would be in their 70s now. It was "arranged" of course - and most of the people involved were Turks whose families had come from the Balkans - if you read honest accounts of what their families went through during the Balkan wars, you can see why they might be easily used. Each side says "they did this to us"...and it just goes back and back and back. The only way to stop it is for individuals to say "it stops here, with me, I won't be the next vehicle for hate." And isn't that what is at the root of Christianity anyway?