When one speaks of a "Greek" the first thing that comes to mind is the "Ancient Greek Civilization." But we read from the works of Greek and Western historians that the "new Greeks" who claim to be the inheritors of this civilization have no links or ties with those Greeks referred in the ancient history.

The Greek historian Paparigopoulos relates the destruction of the true (ancient) Greeks and the emergence of the new Greeks, as follows:

"The original Greeks vanished from the earth when the Romans occupied and devastated Corinth in 146 AD The "Slavs", "Albanians" and "Wallachians", who influxed into the Greek peninsula from the north and west in the sixth century AD, got scattered in the region. SLAVS moved to and settled in, Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Rumeli; ALBANIANS Athens, Corinth, Mani Thessaly, the Aegean (Ionian) Islands, and the WALLACHIANS Thessaly, Rumeli, Seven Islands and the Aegean Islands."

The Ancient Greeks, who lived in tiny "city-states," had not been able to become integrated and form a true State and always regarded each other as enemies, ever since their very appearance. In the course of history, they first came under the suzerainty of the Empire of the Alexander the Great, then the Romans and ultimately the Byzantine Empire. The latter and other thousands of settlers who arrived from the Balkans in the subsequent periods, literally plundered these empty no-man's-lands. The Crusaders Army seized these territories from the Byzantine and were resettled there and divided into segments and distributed them to the feudal counts (lords) and aristocrats from Europe. The ancestors of the "new Greeks," who had arrived from various lands and had been settled on these lands, worked for 2.5 centuries as slaves for their noble European masters.
 

This was the state of affairs when the Ottoman Empire got hold of the Greek peninsula in 1454. Inhabitants of this area were freed from slavery with the beginning of the Greek sovereignty on these lands and maintained their livelihood by tilling the land granted to them by the new rule.

The Greek historians themselves record that the people of the country known to the world as "Greece" has not felt affiliated to any particular nation, until the establishment of the "Kingdom of Greece" in 1832. "The new Greeks" are not a proper race by origin but a combination of quite distinct races and nations that had come together under the umbrella of Orthodox sect of Christianity. And according to the Greek Orthodox Church and Greek politicians, It is sufficient to be a member of the Orthodox Church so as to be regarded as a Greek.

The fact that the "origin" of the "new Greeks" was comprised the Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Wallachian, European, Latin, Byzantine, Macedonian, Cretan, Anatolian and even the Turkish settlers has created certain ethnic problems at different times. The most significant of all is that people forming the population of the country have, at different periods, rejected being Greeks, introducing their nationality as: "I am a Macedonian" or "I am an Albanian", or "I am a Wallachian", or "I am a Turk." The only aspiration of these people who do not see themselves as Greek is to either establish an independent State or go down to their roots annexing the territories of Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia occupied by Greece through fait-accompli, to the countries which they have not forgotten to be part of. That's what they have been struggling for.

The superpowers of the 18th century that helped form the Greek statehood, played a significant role in introducing the people composed of 18 different nations living within the boundaries of "the Greek Kingdom" as the descendants of the "Ancient Greek Civilization". Just as the fact that there exists no blood ties whatsoever between the "new Greeks" and "the ancient Greeks", neither "the Byzantine", nor "the Macedonians", nor "the Cretans" or "the Cypriots" are related in any manner with being a Greek. Greece brought these people under the roof of the Orthodox Church, who plundered these lands and civilizations in the area.

The Greek rulers, in order to create "the Greater Greece", have not sufficed themselves with "CIVILIZATIONAL AND TERRITORIAL PLUNDERING"; they have used and are still exploiting, the peoples of those civilizations they failed to pillage, to disintegrate the modern Turkish State.

Unfriendly sentiments of the officials of the Greek State towards Turkey are displayed through strange wall inscriptions. The inscriptions read as " DEAD TURK IS GOOD TURK". It is possible to come across such "WALL DIPLOMACY" all over Greece and south Cyprus.