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I wanted to comment on the recent remark made by Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis on January 24, 2007 in Strasbourg, France. During a speech, he said "I myself am Macedonian, along with 2.5 million other Greeks". I just wanted to say that I pity him for his idiotic and foolish gesture along with the whole Greek nation. I wanted to ask him how can he be Macedonian if his ancestors along with the rest of the Greeks in Macedonia were part of the Greek refugee group who came from Asia Minor between the years of 1922 and 1928? Listen up! Over 80% of the Greeks in Macedonia today originate from the Greek migrations that took place in the 1920s (the other 20% are workers from southern Greece). These Greeks were kicked out of their native land of Pontus, Odessa, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Uzbekistan, and the Black Sea area (present day Turkey and Ukraine) and had no place to go, so they settled in Macedonia under a population exchange agreement between Greece and Turkey. How can you possibly accuse your neighbors in the Republic of Macedonia of having no connection with the land of Macedonia because Slavs migrated there in 500AD, when you yourselves along with the rest of the Greeks in Macedonia came only after 1922? How can you claim to be a Macedonian and judge your neighbors when in reality they have been there longer then you have? How can you be so foolish enough to think that you are connected with the land of Macedonia when you are not even connected with Greece or the whole Balkan penninsula! Your real origins are from Asia! Wake up, and recognize the real NATIVE Macedonians of Greece, the ones who are struggling today to survive as a nation, the ones who have been assimilated for their race, language, and beliefs in the last 100 years, the ones whose very name you are trying to take away from and call yourself and your children by, the ones who have been living in the Macedonian region longer then you "Greeks" have!!!