The Turkish Government

Why you annoy me:

• You refuse to re-open the Chalke theology school.  This school is responsible for training the higher ups in the Greek Orthodox Church, thus you threaten the continued existence of the Patriarchy of Constantinople, the only remaining institution from the Roman Empire.
• You continue to deny that you massacred millions of Armenians in the 1950’s.  Genocide is annoying.
• You deny that you carried out a pogrom against Greeks in the city of Constantinople in the early 20^th Century.  There were 300,000 Greeks in the city in 1900, and there were only 3,000 by 1975.  I guess they all must have disappeared by themselves.
• You renamed Constantinople in 1930 to Istanbul out of anti-hellenic spite.  In fact, you changed all Greek city names in your country to Turkish names during the 20’s and 30’s because you wanted to erase the fact that Greeks founded them all.  What happened to Constantinople, Adrianople, Smryna, Ikonium, Trebizond, Philedelphia, Amorium, Caesarea and Chrysolpolis to name only a few?  They never existed, according to the Turkish government.
• You force all citizens to speak Turkish, even if Greek or Armenian or Slavic or Kurdish is their natural language.
• At the same time you are trying to have “Turk” stop being a racial name and start being a national name.  This is so you can force Greeks, Armenians and Kurds to refer to themselves as Turks rather than as their actual race.
• You annoyingly claim that Turkish people are the “native” inhabitants of Asia Minor, whereas every historian and anthropologist in the world contends that Turks immigrated there from central Asia and Mongolia in the 11^th century.  This would be the same as American history text books teaching that Europeans are native to America.  Using psuedo-history for a racial agenda, of which genocide is an aspect, is unjustifiable and annoying.

 Possible mitigating factors:

• You are the most progressive, secular Muslim country.  That isn’t saying very much, but it says something.
• Your people may not have much architectural originality or any great cultural innovations, but they are very good at copying the good things from others, which is a sign of a strong people.
• You aren’t going to be admitted to the EU anytime soon.
• Your geo-political importance is declining and soon enough western countries will hold you to task for your crimes.

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