precisely.
I have already posted some references, including some by non-turkish sources.
Here's a site I found on top of a quick google search - seems informative. Other than that I know a few people with some grand parents killed by Armenian gangs.
I haven't given any.
Which includes hundreds of people executed during the Greek coup in the previous week. This is why I avoid writing any statistics for Cyprus. Noone seems to know how to separate the statistics between the two events.
Yes all of this one occured during the peace operation, but almost all of these people fled their homes by government-fed paronaia without any contact by Turkish troops.
First, everybody knows that it was the crusaders who mutilated Byzantine empire. Turks merely fiddled with the ashes.
Second, your comment mimics your nickname in the context of our discussion, as it just shows that Turkish history is similar to any other nation's history.
Third, If you don't increase the apparent age of your general posting style to two-digit numbers, I'll start ignoring your posts. We are trying to have a civilized discussion here. If other posters who don't like Turks or disagree with what I write (example:scy12) can hold an intellectual discussion, so can you (I suppose).
I didn't mean you, you are one of the people in the off-topic forums that I consider mature.
me too.
If you haven't made that up on the fly, please provide the year for it. The only real massacre of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Jerusalem that I know to be noteworthy is done by Christian crusaders.
You are hilarious. OE did not start WW1 (or any war in the 100+ years before that). Also remember that Turkey was one of the few neutrals in ww2.
finally somebody is using the thread for its purpose of asking questions, rather than expressing bad feelings towards Turkey.
No, absolutely not. Everything Ottoman was shunned and vilified (often rightfully) by the early republic.
You could say that – technically – between 15-18th centuries. But while that practice was used, all citizens already counted as slaves of the sultan – same as any other European monarchy of the same era. So in its historical context it is more forced recruitment and assimilation than slavery. Another thing, they weren’t all warriors, they were classified in accordance to talents, some became ministers/governors/ statesmen, some became engineers/architects, craftsmen…the ones without any particular talent (or some physical talent) became soldiers.
Germany and Bulgaria are different. The Turks in Germany are from Eastern Turkey rural areas, therefore have a very high number of kids per family. The Turks in Bulgaria aren’t immigrants at all, and their family size is not much different than Bulgarians.
Other than natural causes you mean? Traffic accidents I guess. It is about 5000 per year.
Because Turkey fought Ottoman Empire during the independence war. Ottoman government relinquished all rights to leading the nation when they sided with the enemy, and sent the Caliphate army to attack the national forces.
The current system of Turkey is similar to democratic monarchies like UK, except that we have a president who is elected, instead of the royalty. Prime minister is the government head, while president merely acts as a supervisor.
Useless, since when are you a Turk? Please don’t clutter the thread.
I have not found of heard of any event in history or today that would point to Turks believing themselves superior to armenians or any other nation. If the same circumstances were to happen with Georgians instead, the outcome would have been the same. Moreover, Armenians specifically were the “trusted people” of the empire.
Even today when there are polls like “Would you mind if your kid gets married to an Armenian/Greek?” and the same question in those countries about marrying a Turk, the most positive answers always come from Turkey. I remember another in which they follow all news in top10 newspapers in Turkey and Greece for a year, and categorize them as positive/negative/neutral; Turkey’s were evenly divided while Greece’s were 85% negative.
I know myself and my people to confidently say that we don’t hate any nation at all. That does not mean we are not aware and wary of the hatred from two nations (and more importantly, their diasporas who keep the hate alive).
Please, keep in mind that this thread is labeled “Ask a Turk”. If you have some buried hatred inside you, this is not the place for it. It is also not the place for you to express your opinion of what Turks might be thinking, based on your weird prejudices. You are free to go and start your own “I hate Turks because…” thread.
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