Posted on 09/08/2009 7:28:05 AM PDT by Nikas777
Is Turkey Renaming Istanbul Constantinople?
Chances of Turkey and the Kurds reaching a rapprochement are at their highest in 25 years. But what does that mean for Turkification -- and what concessions are the Turks willing to make?
BY NICK DANFORTH | SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
Last month, Turkish President Abdullah Gul broke a long-standing national taboo: He called the remote village of Guroymak by its Kurdish name, Norshin.
The president's opponents say renaming Istanbul Constantinople on highway signs will inevitably follow. Or worse. For many Turks, saying Norshin leads to saying Kurdistan, and saying Kurdistan leads to recognizing an independent Kurdish state stretching across Iran, Iraq, and southeastern Turkey.
After a 1980 military coup, Turkey "Turkified": It banned the Kurdish language, imposed new Turkish place names, and famously declared that Kurds were actually "mountain Turks."
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Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
They were talking Turkey.
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Leni
Yeh ! And tell’um we want the Hi-Ya So-fee-ya back as a Christian Church Too !...LOL...
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Evr’y gal in Constantinople
Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople
So if you date in Constantinople
She’ll be waiting in Istanbul
They Might Be Giants,
1989
Indeed. I heard that song sparingly while growing up in your state. I confess to cheating with Google this a.m. :)
Was that really 20 years ago?????
It boggles the mind.
Istantinople
Constanbul
Istanbulople
Conistan
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
If you go looking for quick references on this you'll find that Henry Hudson is given credit for discovering Manhattan in 1609 - September 12, 1609 to be exact.
The French had already landed just up the coast at St. Sauveur in 1598, and had for most of the preceding century used spots from Norfolk to Boston for drying and salting fish to be shipped back to Europe.
How they missed Manhattan is a doggone good question. Earlier the Portuguese had made a permanent settlement far to the North in Labrador (taken down by the spanish about 1538), and there are another 29 permanent settlements of various quality that were set up BEFORE 1600 on the East Coast ~ and only a couple of them have been studied extensively.
Worth noting ~ by 1620 there were already 20,000 European and African settlers in what is now Maryland ~ and no one has any idea where they came from, or when they settled. Pirates had made earlier settlements up and down the coast throughout the 1500s.
How all these folks missed Manhattan........?
THIS JUST IN: New York is being renamed New Amsterdam!
“...and famously declared that Kurds were actually “mountain Turks.””
One Kurd leg is shorter than the other?
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