'Hello Anatolia' Trailer

I moved to Turkey in 2010. My family and friends thought I was crazy. Maybe I am. But I couldn't shake the stories I heard growing up, of old Smyrna and Asia Minor.

Today, I'm on a journey to discover the past, while building a bridge for the future.

[cgdsizm]

whenever i go to Greece i see that we have the same way of living, same tastes, same happinesses and even same angers...the only difference is religion and it causes a huge gap between nations...even though i see there is still strong hatered and opposition against Turks among Greek people, i still like them because of their way of living and their culture...i hope this movie will heal some wounds between nations and will be successful :)

[lalanthegood]

Thank you for making the journey on behalf of all of us with an Anatolia Heritage

[DEVRIMCI]

As a Turk, Greeks are always welcomed to Turkey. End of the day Greeks lived here side by side with Turks.

[pansbox]

Thank you so much for this fantastic traliler. I can't wait to see this film summer of 2012! My mom was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She now resides in NY. Best of luck to you! I am sure it will be a big hit! I look forward to it!!!!

[AhmetDiyorki]

Greeks, there is no problem. Greeks in Turkey if they can live comfortably. From by turkey

[billkota]

One country, one race, one language, one mindset, one religion, one educational system etc, these are the doctines of how the country was formed at any cost. You will not get a very clear picture of true history from within the country at all, but one with distorions and slight of hand. The younger generations there have grown up with all this and do not know anything better, not will they be allowed to, without victomisation from the state or from alternate sources. Do your homework carefully.

[Pontiakos]

I can't wait to watch this film! In regards to the history involved I believe that once Turkey recognizes the genocide its past governments (1914-1922) committed it will be stronger as a nation. The modern people of the two countries have nothing more to divide.

[golkas]

Where can i watch the whole documentary?

[billkota]

I believe you have good intentions at heart here, yet, you really need to do some deep research in many historic, cultural and politcial aspects of how the Turkish nation came to be. All I will say to you and leave with you for you to work it out over time, and you will, after butting you head a countless times against a brick wall, is that ideologically, a nation formed out of its of its indegionous people, has lost much more than it has gained.

[DEVRIMCI]

Why don't you give a peace a chance ?

[ThuGish]

'Kalenin bedenleri' in Turkish or 'Siko horepse koukli mou' in Greek

[billkota]

Erasure of all aspects as past indegionous races has been policy for decades, and continues through policy, or subvertive measures. Irrespective of what people are saying that Turkey is a secular state, this is quite preposterous. The countries religous ideologies, and its paranioa of anything different to what it has preached over the decades, do not blend in well with the democratic and christian model. They conflict head on, and always will.

[haris]

Greeks and turks historically are enemies and remain as enemies because of occupation of north part of Cyprus, and the casus belli against Greece.

Those Greeks who participate in this video have forget that all places in Ionia are not Anatolia but Ancient Greek Ionia the place where the ancient greek civilation arisen,

[NikephorosPhokas]

This documentary seems cringey, but the full documentary is no longer on Vimeo. How come only Greeks, especially ones with roots in modern Turkey(whose ancestors thus never fought for independence and instead fled for their lives to Greece or elsewhere) love Neo-Ottoman pastiches that emphasize shared music or cuisine but ignore Turkish racism and policies that have reduced the Greek community of Turkey to less than 1, 600 people who have an average age of 65? Isn't it better for a Greek to migrate to say more neutral Israel/France/any other country but Turkey, with no history of racism or genocide or government policies target them, than Turkey, and just deal with the lesser affinity in music and cuisine? The Greek community of Turkey is dying, Turkish political parties like the AKP and CHP are slinging nationalist barbs accusing the other of being weak for allowing Greece to occupy Greek populated islands in the Aegean, Greece is a colony of German-Europe and this the type of embarrassing documentary Greek-American organizations are funding?

This is like a Native American making a documentary praising white America, its culture and history and ignoring the plight of his ancestors! Or could you imagine African Americans making a similar documentary? No, only Greek Neo-Ottomans could stoop to this sniveling level of praising and ignoring the crimes of their oppressor, infact they discovered the oppressor all along is Greek nationalism, as if Greeks/Greece were the imperial power or imperial people... No sooner than Turkey destroyed its Greek community with the forced labor battalions of the Second World War, 1955 pogrom and the 1964 administrative deportations, and the unrelenting rapacious Turkey turned its eye to invading Cyprus and claiming the Greek islands of the Aegean. Today Turkish jets semi-regularly overfly such Greek islands as Farmoksini and Agathonísi. And I know ahistorical Neo-Ottomans like Stamelos love to lay all the blame on the Turkish government if they do ever acknowledge such issues and pretend that the Turkish people are different in their embarrassingly unread ahistorical worldview, but if you actually took a strong stance with gumption and asked Turks of Turkey about such issues, almost all of them would have explained to you that the Greek populated islands are unfairly occupied by Greece, and further that your ancestors were fifth columnist backstabbers who deserved to be driven out and genocided! Taking no political or historical stance is infact taking a historical/political stance, Stamelos. In this case your stance is the stance of praising the oblivion of your people. Disgraceful and an embarrassment to all Greeks, how could the Greek America Foundation produce this apologia? This is like what the ahistorical, apolitical stuff the Turkish Foreign Ministry would bother to fund if Greek-American foundations and Greek-Americans were not losers enough to do this for them!