[ April 17, 2024 ]
“Erdogan recently claimed that Turkey is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire and vowed to recapture influence in areas once ruled by its caliphate. Much of northern Greece, where most ethnic Turks live today, remained part of the empire until 1913. Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanist allies proudly speak of jihad and used such terms to describe Turkey’s recent invasion of the Afrin region of Syria.”
Erdogan has made it clear for years that he means to restore the Ottoman caliphate. No one took him seriously, but now he is becoming much more aggressive and open about his revanchist aims. Greece was part of the Ottoman empire for hundreds of years, until it was able to win its independence in 1821. This is an ominous development that bodes ill for the future. The conflict between the Turks and the Greeks was part of the ongoing jihad for many centuries, and still is. The difference now is that few in the West wish to recognize that the jihad is still being waged.
“Turkey Refusing to Release Detained Greek Soldiers,” by John Rossomando, Investigative Project, March 6, 2018:
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A Turkish court on Monday refused to release two Greek soldiers who strayed across the border into Turkey last week. Turkey accuses the soldiers of being spies. Greece claims the border crossing was accidental due to heavy snow and fog. This is just the latest example of Turkey threatening its neighbors under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule. A Turkish government spokesman said Monday the soldiers were being held because they wandered into the military zone. He denied they were being held as a bargaining chip to exchange for eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece following the 2016 coup attempt as some press reports speculated. Erdogan repeatedly demanded the soldiers be returned to Turkey.
The Greek soldiers told Turkish prosecutors they were “following footprints in the snow in an attempt to stop migrant smuggling.” Turkish authorities remanded the soldiers into custody because they aren’t resident in Turkey and could flee the country. They also noted they planned to examine the soldiers’ digital data.
This latest action risks inflaming tensions between Greece and Turkey. The two NATO allies have become locked into a war of words in recent weeks, starting last month when a Turkish vessel rammed a Greek ship off a disputed island in the Aegean Sea. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias warned that the Turks had “touched on the red line and in some sense it overstepped it.” Greece would meet any Turkish “aggression” with an equal response.
“Test our resolve. We are kindly asking Greece to set foot on the Imia islets. If that happens, we will defend them to the death, from the moment that Erdogan gives the order,” said Erdogan adviser Yigit Bulut.
Erdogan recently claimed that Turkey is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire and vowed to recapture influence in areas once ruled by its caliphate. Much of northern Greece, where most ethnic Turks live today, remained part of the empire until 1913. Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanist allies proudly speak of jihad and used such terms to describe Turkey’s recent invasion of the Afrin region of Syria.
Turkish armed forces also conducted war games in the vicinity of the Evros River, where the Greek soldiers were arrested. That exercise included crossing a river, which the Greek media insinuated meant learning how to invade a neighboring country.
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32 Comments
6 years ago
muslim + koran ≡ brain damage
6 years ago
Erdogan is a scumbag jihadi in suit. Greece should stop all immigration from Turkey and start deporting them to save itself.
And given Erdogan’s record would it shock you to know Turkey has been involved in organ harvesting of captured non-muslims, shia and even children are not spared
But Left/liberal support and do the same here in America https://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
Can it get more disgusting ?
6 years ago
Erdogan has made it clear for years that he means to restore the Ottoman caliphate ( where women have no rights ).
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
right now Turkeys’s Erdogan is killing US allies who fought ISIS. Trump and US military are afraid of saying NO to Erdogan. the hand of mohammad is strong
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Muslims, being miserable inbred cowards by nature, think it is normal to go after the weak and poor and turn them into slaves.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
It is time for Nato to toss Erdogan out, because whilst he is still a member it is hard to get rid of this inbred turd. At least then they can clean his rubbish and his elite cowards away which should not take longer than a day or two. At least half of the turkish population who admire the work of the great Adaturk, would be very happy about that.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
The hand of Mohammad is that of a bony skeleton, pissed by pigs.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
The hand of mutgonad, police beat upon him, is pulling your pisser.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Over on wikislam there’s a testimonial of a muslimah from Turkey about a whole village that was either directly complicit or had knowledge of the fact her sister was stoned to death for adultery (because she was discovered pregnant out of wedlock). Her boyfriend offered to marry her as well and he wasn’t stoned to death. The events happened in the early 20th century. The muslimah herself was forced into an arranged, polygamous marriage in Germany. She despises islum but can’t leave it.
6 years ago
Let the turks and greeks punch it out, a good humiliation of turkey by anyone would be a big step in putting erdogan back in his place.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Greece wouldn’t have a prayer.
Interestingly enough I believe Greece and Turkey are BOTH members of NATO.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
True IDPH, this arrangement is a relic of the cold war. When asked by the Americans to join {because they didn’t care about the historical hatred for the Greek people} Turkey was allowed in and fed streams of expensive American planes and weapons because Turkey was an impoverished backward basket case of a country therefore a military liability.
What the American military and politicians wanted was simple, eaves dropping facilities and installations facing southern Russia and able to look deep into their comms network and rocket bases stationed there. American politicians didn’t “do” history [especially religious ones].
The whole arrangement is now outdated, Turkey has returned to type and the honeymoon with Putin is tissue paper thin, both have form in centuries of vicious conflict against the other, they’ll return to that soon enough when each outlives it’s usefulness to the other.
6 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
The above explanation doesn’t excuse the purported leaders of the free world standing by while the f’ing Turkish muslums:
1. committed their Istanbul pogrom in the 1950’s
2. invaded, annexed and ethnically cleansed 40% of Cyprus
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
To all American administrations during the 50s and re Cyprus in 74, the cold war mattered
far more than anything else and as America ran NATO nobody could move to stop Cyprus happening because America didn’t care. America as a young nation where all from whatever religion are welcome sees things differently, they’ve never been devastated by religious wars cultural extinctions or border changes/ population exchanges. America is the post religious society..
6 years ago
Israel knows where it’s friends are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-conduct-joint-air-force-drills-with-greece-cyprus-egypt/
6 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
Egypt? A friend? Try being Jewish or Christian publicly in Egyptistan.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
What most people are not grasping is that the situation in the Middle East is moving at warp speed. The Us is about to move it’s Embassy to Jerusalem with Guatemala and now Czech Republic. The Saudi are now allowing Air India to fly over to New Delhi, saving several hours. ELAL will be next. The UAE and Egypt are conducting joint air force training with the Israelis.
I other words the Palestinians are being left in the dust with the so called non-starter 2-State Solution.
6 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
Tell it to the Coptic Christians.
The wife of one of my former friends(RIP), was an Egyptian Jewish woman who was forced to marry a f’ing muslum against her will in Cairo because the muslum had pull and threatened her family. She endured years of abuse from this muslum f’er until he dragged her into the street and triple-talaq’d her. She never saw her kids and was left w/nothing but the clothes on the back following the divorce “proceeding”.
Don’t try and tell me the f’ing Egyptian muslums are anything but what they are: f’ing muslums.
6 years ago
Ataturk, the supposed muslum secular super-hero? He used brutal means that bordered on genocide to ethnically cleanse Greeks from Turkey. The state-sponsored Istanbul pogrom in the 1950’s in “moderate” Turkey targeted Greeks (and any convenient Jews).
6 years ago
I did not know Greece had soldiers.
D
6 years ago
Greece needs lots of anti-tank missiles, anti-ship missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles.
It will be much more difficult and costly that way, for Turkey to mount a successful land or sea invasion.
6 years ago
There is no doubt, the turks kidnapped the Greek soldiers for the sole purpose of extortion. The Erdogan mafia will demand ransom from the Greek government which, of cause, Merkel will gladly pay for them. The better way would have been if the Greeks would have retaliated by kidnapping 20 turks. Then both sides would have had bargaining chips of about equal value.
6 years ago
take turks hostage, and trump up some fake charges, play the game by their rules.
6 years ago
Donald Trump and his bright spark State Department have got to wake up to and stand up to the disgusting pig’s arsehole, Recep Erdogan. It is impossible that they have not yet clued onto the fact that he is a radical believer in Islam, no true NATO ally or friend if the West. I don’t understand why Trump has allowed the Turks to wage war against Kurd allies in Syria. This is not encouraging.
6 years ago
Time to boot Turkey out of NATO. Under Erdoğan, Turkey is clearly no ally of Western countries.
