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Yannis Vasilis
Turkish social reformer of Greek ancestry · Turkey · On the map · Activists · Born 1974 · age 52
Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, born İbrahim Yaylalı, is a former Turkish nationalist, turned Turkish-Greek pacifist and activist, promoting and defending Greek heritage in Turkey. An avowed Turkish nationalist, he joined the Turkish army in 1994 to fight the PKK insurgency.
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Taken captive, his family requested governmental help for his release, which was declined on the basis of Yaylalı's Greek heritage. Eventually discovering his family's actual Pontic Greek origin, recent conversion to Islam, and nationalistic turn, in 2013 he changed his name to the Greek, Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı. Following the discovery of his Greek ancestry, Yaylalı converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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