It's flabbergasting to hear the duplicitous Orthodox kowtowing toward the Turks, Mongols, etc. The contraditions stare at them in the face, yet they remain unmoved. For example, on page 87 of The Orthodox Church, Timothy Ware writes
"It was not an easy transition: but it was made less hard by the Turks themselves, who treated their Christian subjects with remarkable generosity. "while on page 90 he writes
"Patriarchs were removed and reinstated with kaleidescopic rapidity. 'Out of 159 Patriarchs who have held office between the fifteenth and the twentieth century, the Turks have on 105 occasions driven out Patriarchs from their throne; there have been 27 abdications, often involuntary, 6 Patriarchs have suffered violent deaths by hanging, poisoning, or drowning; and only 21 have died natural deaths while in office.'"