[LauraleeBraswell]

""There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these "crypto-Christians" or "forced" Turks - non ethnic Turks who had to deny their ethnicity and Christianity to survive in the final years of the Ottoman empire and in Ataturk's new republic.""



Wait a second. Muslim families risk their own lives to save children of Armenians, take them into their homes, and raise them as their own- and your calling them "forced" Turks!

I'm not defending Islam in any way, but when you say "forced" them to become Muslim. What would you think of the young Jewish children saved and raised by Christian families during the Holoucaust. I wouldn't call it forced. They were adopted. They were saved.

I don't think that these Good people are part of the Islamic threat.

[Serpentor]

The BBC is putting the best spin on it - the stories I have read is that the Turks practiced kidnapping of Christian children - see the historical account of the Janissaries.

[Serpentor]

It is a practice (Turkish or Islamic or both) that continues till this day when the Turks invaded Cyrpus. There are reports that children were taken and raised as Turks.