[smith288]

Im glad you informed me of such a reaking news item.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

This does not belong in breaking news.

[Lead Moderator]

"WashingtonRules"

Not with Spurrier as their coach, they don't.

[Corin Stormhands]

Apparently since you live by "Washington Rules" you've ignored FR rules. Could be a good essay. But it's not Breaking News.

Welcome to FR. Hope you have a thick skin.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Michael Dukakis- Governor

Olympia Dukakis- Actress

George Stephanopoulos- Journalist/ Political Analyst

It's Greek to me!

[Antoninus]

And Lord knows, the good and gracious Turks have never mishandled a Greek in any way over the centuries.....

Based on my observations of Turkish "support" for our operations in Iraq, I only have one thing to say regarding that particular nation:

Turkey sucks.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Does that make Al Franken "Cyprus"?

[katnip]

Wow, you must think we're all really ignorant,Turk.

105th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. CON. RES. 148

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the burning of Smyrna and honoring the memory of its civilian victims, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 9, 1997 Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. SHERMAN, and Mr. BILIRAKIS) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the burning of Smyrna and honoring the memory of its civilian victims, and for other purposes.

Whereas in 1914 the Turkish Nationalist regime initiated a systematic campaign to eradicate the ethnic Greek population in Asia Minor, consigning and killing thousands of male conscripts in forced labor battalions and destroying Greek towns and villages and slaughtering additional hundreds of thousands of civilians in areas where Greeks composed a majority, as on the Black Sea coast, Pontus, and areas around Smyrna;

Whereas in 1922, Smyrna, the largest city in Asia Minor, a cosmopolitan hub populated by a highly educated Greek community and flourishing commercial and middle classes, was sacked and burned and its inhabitants massacred by the Turkish forces of Kemal Attaturk;

Whereas Turkish forces turned on the Greek population, whose numbers had swelled to 400,000 with the influx of refugees from Greek villages destroyed in the countryside, after first slaughtering the Armenians of Smyrna in their quarters;

Whereas on September 9, 1922, Turkish soldiers, led by their officers, set fire to Smyrna and razed most of the city under the gaze of United States, British, and French ships and foreign diplomats and journalists stationed offshore;

Whereas Metropolitan Chrysostomos, the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christians in Smyrna who refused to abandon the city, was seized from religious services he was conducting in the cathedral by Turkish police forces and given over to be dismembered by a mob in the streets;

Whereas 3 other Orthodox metropolitans were brutally tortured to death in 1921 and 1922, as were 37 Armenian clerics and thousands of priests in the broader period from 1894 to 1923;

Whereas in 1923 more than 1,200,000 Greeks were expelled from Turkey; and

Whereas persecutions of Greeks in Turkey were repeated in a pogrom in Istanbul in 1955 whereby Orthodox churches and Greek businesses were burned and vandalized, again in 1964 with the expulsions of Greeks, and continues today with restrictions on press and religious freedoms and harassment of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That--

(1) the Congress joins the Hellenic and the Armenian American communities in honoring the memory of the victims of Smyrna in 1922 and the millions of Orthodox Christians who perished in the genocidal campaign in Asia Minor from 1894 to 1923;

(2) the United States should encourage the Republic of Turkey to take all appropriate steps to acknowledge these crimes against humanity and commemorate the victims at Smyrna; and

(3) the American people should never forget these events, and an accurate history thereof should be restored and preserved so that such atrocities may never be repeated.

[ZULU]

"Cyprus has been destroyed by Greece many times over. Its people is indigenous and does not belong to the Greek racial characteristics, although many migrants from Greece arrived during the Ottoman Empires open borders which allowed Greeks to prosper and migrate to other lands."

This articel appeared in a paper?? The writer sounds like he can't speak English. As a matter of fact, the writer sounds like - A TURK!!!

The Islamic Turks, not the Greeks are the interlopers here. They are descended from barbarians from Central Asia who converted to Islam and, surprise, surprise, looted, plundered, murdered, raped, enslaved and burnt their way into Christian Anatolia and the Balkans.

Christians have suffered enough from Muslims, including the expansive Turks who once laid siege to Vienna itself and captured and plundered the Christian city of Constantinople, turning the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a Muslim mosque, as it remian today to the disgrace of all Christiandom.

Log live Vlad Tepes!!!!

[Hlias9]

Well, I was reading carefully what you wrote and at the very least you are cluless as to what the events of 1974 were.There were no Greek army troops in Cyprus and the national guard was less that 1000 people. Please let us borrow some of your barbaric history since Plato and Socrates are not worthy enough. Turkey has no cultural value whatsoever.As of the Turksish Cypriots have suffered none of the Greeks of Asia Minor and Kostantinople...BUT once a barbarian ALWAYS a barbarian....