🧵Reading the official website of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, one could easily conclude that the Greeks never set foot in Anatolia.
The presentation of ancient sites follows a clear and deliberate pattern:
The Greek heritage of Anatolia is consistently downplayed, reframed, minimised - or erased altogether. Explicit references to Greek origins are often avoided, with monuments instead presented through a Roman lens, or linked directly to later Turkish adaptations.
This is not a case of innocent omission. It is a calculated act of historical reframing, designed to erase over 3,000 years of Greek history in Asia Minor and the Greek identity of some of antiquity’s most significant monuments.
A few striking examples follow: