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Posted on 06/09/2026 10:11:38 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The ongoing tensions between Turkey and Israel reached another high point on Sunday, after Israeli ministers reacted strongly to the suggestion of Turkey’s interior minister that Jerusalem could one day be reconquered by the successor state to the Ottoman Empire.
Speaking at a party convention, Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said that “just as we witnessed the liberation of Damascus, Aleppo, and Karabakh, God willing, one day we will also witness the liberation of Jerusalem.”
This is a reference to the defeat of the Assad regime at the hands of the Islamist alliance led by the now-defunct terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which received significant support from Turkey.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
The corrupt Ottoman Empire is gone. Forever.
Jerusalem DC (David’s capital) shall remain the eternal capital of Israel. Forever. https://t.co/FRSR7ue1gP
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) June 7, 2026
In addition, he referenced the capture of Karabakh, a region within the Turkish-allied Republic of Azerbaijan that is called Artsakh by Armenians, who were the majority population until Azerbaijan captured the region in 2023.
Çiftçi continued by recounting his “heartfelt plea to the Almighty”: “O Lord, grant me the governorship of Jerusalem, even if just for a single day...”
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Constantinople (”City of Constantine”) is named after Constantine the Great, the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and reunified the empire.
He dedicated the city—previously Byzantium—as his new, explicitly Christian capital on May 11, 330 AD, designed to serve as a “New Rome” in the East.
Kōnstantinoúpolis (Κωνσταντινούπολη) is a standard compound of his name (Kōnstantínos) and the suffix for city (pólis), meaning “City of Constantine.”
In Old French the Greek suffix -polis dropped the “-is” and softened the “p” into a “ph” or “v” sound, eventually collapsing into -ople. Kōnstantinoúpolis became Constantinople in French.
English borrowed the word completely intact from the French spelling and pronunciation
You see the same fir Adrianople.
The American cities are modern
The thing is that most “Turks” have only about 5% to 15% TurkiC blood. The rest if their genetics are from the original inhabitants, who, before the 900s were “Greek” or Armenian. Prior to that they were Lydian, persian, phrygian, hurrians, hittite, Mitanni, Galatian Celts etc etc.
The same way hhow most “Palestinians “ are genetically descendants of Jews, Samaritans, Levsnt8nes with admixture of arab, Egyptian, greek, Persian, armenian etc etc
So it’s basically English is a b@$tardized tongue that is a union of Gallo Norman French on an Anglo Saxon Germanic base.
Never ever trust the English pronunciation to have a deep relation to how a word was pronounced in its original language
Thank you. As I said, I’d wondered. The only correction I’d make is that many ancient cities such as Heliopolis and Neapolis, indeed the Acropolis, and tons of places that Alexander modestly named Alexandropolis are referred to in English with that suffix. Constantinople and, as you pointed out, Adrianople are exceptions. Your explanation makes sense and I appreciate receiving it
No worries.
When I moved yo Poland in 2010 I realized how many place names in English are just weird in light if their original names.
And, digging deeper into English’s messy origins tells one a lot about different words etymology
Jive Turkey Mofo.
Erdogan threatens attacks against Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428420
Get in line. Take a number.
Anatolia could be a large glass parking lot!
It was stolen from the ethnic Greeks and Armenians, during the genocide period. A large glass parking lot would not be justice. Restoration of their rights and the rights of the Armenians to Nagorno Karabakh would be better.
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