Slight correction - it was the 4ID, not the 3ID. According to Wikipedia ...
Alerted on 19 January 2003, the 4th Infantry Division was scheduled to take part in the Iraq War in the spring of 2003 by spearheading an advance from Turkey into northern Iraq. The Turkish Parliament refused to grant permission for the operation and the division's equipment remained offshore on ships during the buildup for the war. Its original mission, holding 13 Iraqi divisions along the "Green Line" in northern Iraq, was executed by the joint Task Force Viking. Arriving through Kuwait after the invasion had started, the division was subjected to multiple "SCUD" alerts while at Camps Wolf and Udairi, necessitating the retreat to bunkers in full chemical protective gear. The division was unable to deploy in time to start the invasion but joined it as a follow-on force in April 2003 attacking toward Tikrit and Mosul, and later became a major part of occupation forces during the post-war period.
The 1st genocide of the 20th century was the Armenian Genocide. The Islamic Ottoman government systematically exterminated its minority Armenian (who were predominately Christians) subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. It took place during and after WWI (1915-1923) and was implemented in 2 phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. The Assyrians, the Greeks and other minority groups were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. To this day, Turkey denies the genocide ever happened.
Above - A still frame from the 1919 Hollywood produced documentary silent film, “Auction of Souls” (only 20 minutes of the film survive today) which portrayed recreated eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including the scene above of crucified Christian girls. In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, Aurora Mardiganian described being raped and thrown into a harem (which agrees with Islam’s rules of war). Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw 16 Christian girls crucified: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.” She eventually escaped to the West, wrote her memoir and saw it produced into the Hollywood documentary which was shown in major U.S. and European cities.
5/06/2009 – In his address to the Turkish Parliament, POTUS #44 BHO stated that many "Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them."
5/07/2009 - POTUS #44 BHO declared in a press conference in Turkey, "… One of the great strengths of the United States is ... we have a very large Christian population (~75%) -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish (~2%) nation or a Muslim (~1%) nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. …"
6/18/2013 – Middle East scholar Raymond Ibrahim reported that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan‘s continued Islamification of modern Turkey included plans to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque. Hagia Sophia — Greek for “Holy Wisdom” — was for some thousand years Christianity’s greatest cathedral. Built in 537 A.D. in Constantinople by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, it became the heart of the Christian empire and was also a stalwart symbol of defiance against an ever encroaching Islam from the east. After parrying centuries of jihadi thrusts, Constantinople was finally sacked by Ottoman Turks in 1453. Its crosses desecrated and icons defaced, Hagia Sophia — as well as thousands of other churches — was immediately converted into a mosque by Sultan Mehmed II with the construction of tall minarets surrounding it in triumph. Then, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, as part of several reforms, the secularist leader Ataturk transformed Hagia Sophia into a “neutral” museum in 1934 — a gesture of goodwill to a then-triumphant West from a then-crestfallen Turkey. The desire to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque is not about Muslims wanting a place to pray — as of 2010, there were 3,000 active mosques in Istanbul alone. Rather, it’s about their reveling, and trying to revivify, the glory days of Islamic jihad and conquest.