Posted on 07/12/2022 9:50:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On May 29, 2022, in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey, elaborate celebrations were held to commemorate the 569th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453. During these neo-Ottoman celebrations, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that “As our ancestors buried Byzantium, let us hope that today, by building our vision for 2053, we also manage to put in the time warp of history the current Byzantines who are plotting against us.”
In order to understand the troubling significance of this otherwise cryptic remark—most Westerners are today totally unaware of the history between Muslim Turkey and Christian Byzantium—some background is necessary.
Towards the end of the first millennium, the Turks, whose origins lay in the steppes of Asia, had become Muslim and began to raid and conquer portions of Asia Minor, which was then and had been for a millennium Greek and Christian. By the end of the 14th century, they had conquered it entirely and began eying Constantinople, just across the Bosporus. Although generations of Turks repeatedly besieged it, it would fall to Muhammad II (or “Mehmet”), Erdoğan’s hero.
But why did Muhammad and his predecessors attack Constantinople in the first place? What made it an enemy to the Turks? The same thing that made every non-Muslim nation an enemy: it was “infidel”—in this case, Christian—and therefore in need of subjugating. That was the sole justification and pretext—the sole “grievance”—that propelled the Turks to besiege it (as their Arab counterparts did in the seventh and eighth centuries).
From the start, deceit was part of Muhammad’s arsenal. When he first became sultan and was too busy consolidating his authority, Muhammad “swore by the god of their false prophet, by the prophet whose name he bore,”
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In before that song.
2) Modern Istanbul is great city and is nicer than Athens.
Just was in Athens, wasn’t impressed.
Once Russia is done with Klaus Schwab and the globohomo movement in Ukraine, they can move on to Constantinople.
I’ll drink to that.
Just damn.
2) Modern Istanbul is great city and is nicer than Athens.
And Turkey has a very good national airline that flies to more cities from its hub than any other airline in the world.
Constantinople got the works!
The Venetians caused the loss of Byzantium
Interestingly enough, the West occupied Constantinople for a few years after WW I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Constantinople
Great. Then we can all die in a nuclear war fought to defend our NATO “ally”, Turkey, against the Russians.
Muzzie...enough said
It will be Russia along with Turkey and Iran among others that will be destroyed when they go up against Israel.
If Turkey attacked Russia from the rear, would Greece help?
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