Because some Slavs settled in Pontus it doesn't mean that Pontians ae of Slavic origin. Slavic people settled in various places, like Sicily, Crete, etc.
Also I can't understand how dolma can be Turkish, since dolma isn't common in central Asia today, where Turks came from. On the contrary it's a recipe common in the Middle East+Balkans.
As for the rest I totally agree with Midas.
My point is that there
is NO Slavic legacy either amongst the Greek Pontic immigrant communities or in the mountains behind Trabzon where people speak Turkish and are Muslims but have the same musical traditions as the now expelled Greek Christian Pontiaki. The Byzantine policy of Hellenising and Christianising subject populations worked then as had earlier with the Isaurians. In Pontus the Slavic settlement has been absorbed as has happened elsewhere, but not always everywhere, in non-Slavic Europe.
Another example? In Germany Slavic surnames abound but the inheritors of those names would consider ridiculous the idea that they are anything but German. This is distinct from the small populations of Wends in Germany who are Slavs and maintain their own language.
The Turks have an ancient history mostly recorded by their enemies in their movement from East to West. They are the same Tu-Li'u-Chu who were a danger to the Chinese dynasties to the South. They are the modern Uyghurs of China and Turkomen of Central Asia. They became mercenaries to the Caliphs of Baghdad before overthrowing them and erecting their Seljuk Empire, centuries before the tribe of Othman became an empire. They absorbed Islam and the refinements of Iranian, Middle Eastern and Byzantine culture while maintaining their language and some pre-Islamic customs.
Dolma is a verbal noun of the Turkish verb
dolmak, 'to be stuffed', and means 'stuffed thing', please let Midas know. What’s my point? There was an Ottoman Empire that affected South-Eastern Europe far more than the modern ethnomaniacs care to admit. Greeks, either Phanariotes or converts to Islam, eminently assisted that empire. We’ve all done it. Any traditionally rich Irish family has at some time converted to the Protestant or the Official English Church of Ireland and reconverted to Catholicism when safe to do so.
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