And Italy didn't exist before 1861. And Leonardo da Vinci wasn't Italian. And Frederick the Great wasn't German. Dude, come on.
Come on; Italy at least has a Roman empire to look back at.
Fredrick the Great was King of Prussia with Wuerttemberg Hohenzollern roots, and you will find no contemporary writing that ever titles or addresses him as a German. (Deutscher) Since their was no political suvereign entity called Germany (Deutschland) at the time.
Read some books in regards to e.g. Napoleon - and you will find that he never spoke of a Germany, but Prussia, Hapsburg, Saxony, etc.
Initially and for almost 600 years this Federation of Kingdoms and fiefs was titled Holy Roman Empire. After 1500 the Latin term Germaniae was added to become Sacrum Imperium Romanum Nationis Germaniae - in order to describe a commonalty expressed via a similar language.
It was after 1835 and especially after 1871 that with a huge effort - especially by Bismarck and the then German Kaiser, 40 years of propaganda and rewriting of history a "German Empire" (Kaiserreich Deutschland), was hammered into the people - since before there were only Prussians, Saxons, Bavarian's, Wuertemberger and two dozen other fiefs - who had been in constant wars with each other for a 1000 years. Hundreds of books titled e.g. The first was a German, German this super and German that best of all. etc. etc.
All these efforts to create a nationalist idea of what it means to be a German eventually led to WWI and successively to WW2.
Due to this rewriting of history a Fredrick the Great is nowadays being noted as a King of Prussia and Prussians being Germans. After-all the kingdom of Prussia was a part of "Das Kaiserreich Deutschland" from 1871 onward till today.
It is only the English Language that simplifies everything down to the term "German".
2015, Turkey openly made overtures towards lasting peace with PKK. Didn't work, PKK ended up using the opportunity to smuggle weapons and militants into the country which it took the Turkish army around 2 and a half years to completely clear out of the country.
My knowledge of it is limited as an Azerbaijani but I'm sure other Turkish members here will be glad to oblige.
Okay I will wait - since I would be very interested in this "proposal"