Nasreddin or Nasreddin Hodja, was a Seljuq satirical Sufi, born in Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, in which present-day country, and considered a philosopher of Populism?
Populism Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites", traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter. Populists can fall anywhere on the traditional left–right political spectrum of politics, and can often be characterised as centrist where populists portray both bourgeois capitalists and socialist organizers as unfairly dominating the political sphere.
Cretan Turks The Cretan Turks (Greek Τουρκοκρητικοί or Τουρκοκρήτες, "Tourkokritikí" or "Tourkokrítes", Turkish "Giritli", "Girit Türkleri", or "Giritli Türkler"), Muslim-Cretans or Cretan Muslims were the Muslim inhabitants of the Greek island of Crete (until 1923) and now their descendants, who settled principally in Turkey, the Dodecanese Islands under Italian administration (now part of Greece after World War 2), Syria (notably in the village of Al-Hamidiyah), Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, and Egypt, as well as in the larger Turkish diaspora.