Yes a google search (without the quotes) for the past week
"site:www.freerepublic.com turkey Armenians Yazidis"
found a FR thread referring to the Ottoman Empire of 100 years ago.
In no way do I intend to provoke an Armenian genocide debate at this time.
I lived and worked in Turkey (in Ankara as a civilian) for a time and I have great respect for the Turks. The Ottoman Empire is no more. Really.
Tens of millions of Turks love their secular constitutional Republic of Turkey and oppose efforts to make Turkey into an Islamist, Sharia Law whatever. When I lived in Turkey it was way before Erdogan and the AK Party.
Yup, and things have changed drastically since then.
Since you left, a Catholic bishop and priest have been murdered and militant Islam is slowly taking over like everywhere else in the ME.