Color me Erdogan. It is simply his nature. He has managed to insult most of Europe in a space of a week. That takes something.
The point? We appear to be at one of those points again when the word "genocide" will be again attached to The Turkish nation because of the Ego of Erdogan. He really believes he is destined to rule the remake of the Ottoman empire. Will any remember the brutality of that empire?
At what price in lives and human misery would that amount to, should it happen? Will the modern world set idly by and ignore it?
Seems like ridiculous question, but is it?
Between Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, Turks killed maybe two million Christians. It was genocide. And they are basically proud of it.
MAKE TURKEY GREEK AGAIN!!!!;)
Some things never change.
I just looked up Imia/Kardak. Their total size combined is is 10 acres (4.0 ha). Do the Turks really want to start an international incident over these two very small Islands?
“the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome” - ruined by the shame that is Islam.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Greeks also fell victim to the same Ottoman campaign of systematic extermination of Christians before, during and after World War I (1914–1923). According to the Greek Genocide Research Center, atrocities against Greek people during that period “included massacres, forced deportations and death marches, summary expulsions, boycotts, rape, forced conversion to Islam, conscription into labor battalions, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments.”
The more things change, the more they remain the same. It seems a large part of modern history has been about repelling islam and a large part of islam has been about atrocities.
There is a very good book about the destruction of Smyrna called Paradise Lost. A beautiful and prosperous multi-ethnic city destroyed.
It raises the age old question....
If Russia attacks Turkey from the rear, will Greece help/
“How the Greek CHRISTIAN Presence on the Aegean Shore Came to an End” would be a more apt title
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Thanks for posting this terrible reality.
American sailors didn’t just standby. They rescued over 250,000 people fleeing the terrible slaughter
USS_Litchfield_(DD-336)
Litchfield, a flush-decker, destroyer sailed to Bremerton, Washington, on her shakedown cruise but her initial tour on the west coast was brief. Before the end of 1921 she had departed San Diego, California and arrived in Charleston, South Carolina.
Following the annual fleet maneuvers, Litchfield steamed to Newport, Rhode Island, to join Division 39 for duty in the eastern Mediterranean, arriving Constantinople 28 June 1922.
The division served under the direct command of Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, U.S. High Commissioner for Turkey. The Allied Commissioners were attempting to end a war between this former ally of Germany and Greece.
Litchfield served in humanitarian causes and as an instrument of American foreign policy as Admiral Bristol’s destroyers evacuated 262,000 Greek and Armenian refugees from Smyrna, Turkey, 13 September, 1922.
The destroyers also assisted civilian relief agencies attempting to feed and evacuate additional thousands suffering from famine and war.
A suggestion: You might consider posting this post every 13 September as an example of man’s cruelity to others. to remind of how cruel s
Written by my late aunt about my grandmother's family in Smyrna. Not a well known book, more of a vanity project.
My grandmother herself was long gone to America when the genocide occurred, in an arranged marriage with my grandfather who was from Lesbos, making me one half Lesbian. :O)
