Posted on 05/13/2022 5:44:51 PM PDT by BusterDog
Turkey is a cancer on humanity.
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Muslims are ...
fantasies of an epileptic will never serve anyone’s benefit.
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Outside of the koran and its other holy books, there is no historical record of the fellow existing
That’s a commonly-repeated theory that “Istanbul” comes from the Greek “eis tin polin” or “to the city” (with the “polin” being Constantinopolis). But I have run across an alternative theory that it comes from the Turkish garbling of the name Constantinople.
Thanks for giving us your Dad’s opinion of the Turks in Korea. My father was stationed in Korea for 8 months in 1954, at an isolated outpost, so I doubt he encountered any Turks. I was repeating something from an old film about American soldiers being brainwashed if they were taken prisoner in the Korean War. The film claimed that the Turks did much better resisting the brainwashing. That may have been true even if they weren’t very good soldiers. Of course the film’s main point was to shock people with how easily the Americans fell victim to brainwashing.
“We also have a small Army/NATO “radar” site.”
I was using the generic term. I know what is there, because I was stationed at one.
Same theory.
Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 and forced the Greek inhabitants of northern Cyprus to flee. Erdogan was born in 1954 so he wasn’t personally responsible for that event (although he hasn’t done anything to rectify that crime either). Has Turkey occupied any territory internationally recognized as belonging to Greece proper?
Me (several in fact) too. And there was no radar ...
The people of Cyprus are the same as those in Greece. Just ask them. Except for those Turkey established.
The people of Cyprus are the same as those in Greece. Just ask them. Except for those Turkey established.
I know the story of Greeks, Jews, Kurds, Alevi’s, Syriac’s and Ezidi’s in Turkey, in Iraq, and in Syria. (This did not begin in 1974, There were many cases of purges and genocides.)
I'm not Greek but I had relatives who were killed or enslaved by the Turks (maybe some direct ancestors if they had children previously to their being killed or captured who did not suffer the same fate)--many ethnic groups were victims of the Ottoman Turks besides the Greeks and the Armenians (Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Italians, etc.). The Turks were raiding places in the Mediterranean and carrying people off as slaves as late as the early 19th century.
Correct. And Erdoo thinks he is the next Sultan and idolizes the Ottoman Empire.
I’m surprised that the Kemalists have not ended this. That is their history.
He’s kicked out and neutered the Kemalists that stayed.
Turkey going to team up with Russia this time?
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They already have, they refused to back senile Joe’s sanctions, as has the majority of the world.
“Me (several in fact) too. And there was no radar ...”
I think we’ve had this discussion before. To the great unwashed interception and listening posts are called radar sites. Tell the general public there were FLR-9 systems and elephant cages and crypto intercept units and their eyes would gloss over.
Tell the general public there were FLR-9 systems and elephant cages and crypto intercept units and their eyes would gloss over.
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Their eyes are already glossed over, a little more would make no difference IMHO
Yup, the basic array.
I had Hippodromes & Bankheads, no elephants.
“I had Hippodromes & Bankheads, no elephants.”
Feeding Christians to the lions, eh? :)
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