What are their differences and similarities of Iranian culture with Turkey?
-One of the big differences between Iran and not just Turkey, but Arab countries; the whole Middle East, is that Iranians are actually connected with a culture that goes back 2500 years. They are the descendants of the same people that lived there 2500 years ago. For Iranians in the war with the Greeks, when the Greek lived in Anatolia, they consider Alexander the Great the Greek who came and conquered Iran, overthrowing the Iranian empire at the time. The Iranians are aware of that as part of their historical memory, and many Iranians have family trees that go all the way back. So they have this history which the Turks don’t have because much if the pre-ottoman history of Anatolia is not Turkish history. The same for the Arabs because Arabs originated in Saudi Arabia, and they do not have a connection to ancient history. The Iranians do. Because they speak the same language basically that was spoken 2500 years ago. You can pick up Persian poetry written 1000 or 1100 years ago and read
