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TURKPOHOBIA exists !!!

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Submitted by Anton Rangelov (Bulgaria), May 15, 2007 at 16:41

No TURKPOHOBIA exists today ...So if you go back in history you`ll see that many of the nations on the Balkans are liberated from turkish yoke by the russians,The Russo-Turkish War of 18771878 had its origins in the Russian goal of gaining access to the Mediterranean Sea and liberating the Orthodox Christian Slavic peoples of the Balkan Peninsula (Bulgarians, Serbians) from the Islamic-ruled Ottoman Empire. These nations delivered by the Russians from the centuries of Ottoman rule regard this war as the second beginning of their nationhood.. So ?

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