Once upon a time, the heart of Western civilization was in the lands of Asia Minor, Thrace, and Pontus. From Tarsus to Byzantium, from Nicaea to Antioch, no place could be more Greek, more Roman, more Christian than Anatolia and Eastern Thrace.
But then the largest population-replacement program in History began in the early second millennium and the final ethnic-religious cleansing was completed in the early 20th century.
Today, the man who tried to murder the Bishop of Rome was released from prison, and his countrymen threw him flowers. This is what is left of a once glorious land...
