Turks and their past (Turkification through genocide)

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), May 13, 2007 at 05:12

Dear G.Vishvas ,

Thank you very much for your so insightful post . I recommend it all all dreamers of successful "Turkish secularism ".

> What turkish children learn in their schools is pure turkish ethno-fascism. Not a whiff of self-criticism or honest presentation of history.

In Turkey any honest presentation of history and self-criticism are legally forbidden as anyone doing that commits the crime of "denigrating Turkishness" . The Turkish Penal Code punishes it with 3 years in prison. And Turkish jails are dreadful places to stay even a day in .

> Atatürk himself was a blue-eyed blondish man - a non-turk to be precise.

Small wonder. He was born in Thessaloniki. His mother Zubeyda had Macedonian-Slavonic ancestors and his father Ali Riza was most probably Albanian . It was not a common job for a Turk to sell firewood and timber. The leading Young Turks , the forerunners of Kemalist policy of Turkification through genocide ( actually Gazi Kemal Mustafa just brought to a logical conclusion a thought inhertited from his predecessors in power ) had also curious lineage. Grand Vizier Ahmed Djemal's mother was Greek. Enver Pasha's family was Albanian-Slavonic from Monastir. Mehmed Talaat , the minister of the Interior and the author of the famous command : "Kill every Armenian man, woman, and child without discrimination ! " was in his young years a telegrapher . His family originated from Bulgaria.

> Strange that turkish imperialism and ethno-fascism received help from Germans, bolsheviks and now even from USA and Israel. Strange are the ways of history. This also shows how foolish the non-muslims are.

Nothing is more unfavavorable to the interests of the truth than wrongly defined national interests. But America will one day wake up to a reality if prefers to ignore for the time being , when the bloodhound bred in the name of its ephemeral "national interests" shows its teeth and jumps at its mindless master's throat joining other Moslem monsters lurking around for their chance to hit America mortally.

> The genocide carried out by turks in Anatolia has to be publicised and discussed.

Absolutely . First of all in Turkey and everywhere there are still naive people pointing to Turkey as a paragon of sucessful Westernization and of victory of "moderate Islam" over "extremist Islam" .

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