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East Med Badman (Greek, not Turk)🏝📿 🇬🇷🇵🇸 Profile picture
East Med Badman (Greek, not Turk)🏝📿 🇬🇷🇵🇸
@DIAS
Descendant of Greek refugees from Asia Minor and I can’t let their story die. Greek Anatolian / Islander Σα ξένα είμαι Έλληνας και σην Ελλάδαν ξένος
Oct 27, 2025 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In Greek 🇬🇷 culture, a mangas is a rebellious working-class tough guy a street enforcer with swagger, a knife in his scarf belt, and a strict honor code tied to rebetiko. In Turkish 🇹🇷 culture, the equivalent is the kabadayı. Both characters became iconic in late 1800s–early 1900s port cities.Image
Image Their roots of the style go back to the Zeybeks, the famed bandits of Western Anatolia admired by Greek and Turkish workers alike. Their style and courage lived on in zeibekiko, originally a Zeybek warrior dance. As Smyrna urbanized, Greeks and Turks adopted the Zeybek look: scarf belt with hidden knife, jacket hanging off one shoulder, head tilted in swagger.Image
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Dec 26, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This “free Constantinople” bullshit is getting out of hand

1) if you’re not Greek, shut the fuck up. Especially if you’re European because your ancestors were the first ones who raped murdered and pillaged the Greek citizens of Constantinople before
Ottomans arrived 2) it was 1453 when it happened so unless you’re willing to fight for all national borders to return to how they were in 1453 shut the fuck up about Constantinople. Especially if you’re posting “free Constantinople” from your American home. Give that back to the natives first
Jan 31, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
‼️Today is 100 years since the population exchange between 🇬🇷 and 🇹🇷

Millions of people on both sides were forced to leave their homes and everything they knew to relocate to a foreign land

I have posted about this a lot over the years and I will compile it all in this thread
May 29, 2021 • 67 tweets • 21 min read
This is a mega-tweet PACKED full of Greek 🇬🇷 / Turkish 🇹🇷 shared songs

Outsiders (many Greeks and Turks too) aren’t actually aware of how intertwined our music is

Dating back to hundreds of years ago, we have consistently borrowed and collaborated right up to the present moment But how?

How is it possible that 2 different people with 2 different languages, 2 different religions and multiple wars can ignore all of that when it comes to the cultural exchange of music?

The answer is, cohabitation. Anatolia has been home to Greeks and Turks for 1000 years
Sep 5, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
What is Rebetiko? (A thread)

In 1923, 2 million Greek 🇬🇷 refugees (who had never lived in Greece) came to Greece from Asia Minor🇹🇷

They moved into the city slums and brought their eastern style music with them

Drugs, prostitution and crime were themes in their songs AND lives It wasn’t always like this. Many of the Greek refugees had thriving businesses back in Turkey and lived better than most Greeks in Greece. However after many wars and the population exchange of 1922, every Greek in Turkey had to leave suddenly, taking whatever they could carry