Great People Great Country

A video about Turkey.

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[Paulynyc]

I'll tell you what the matter is...I'm not ignorant to the history of this part of the world and I'm calling attention to the hypocrisy and historic revisionism masked in this innocuous-appearing travel video.

[mokahraman]

1- The video is not claiming that the sites found close to Aegean Sea is not "Roman". 2-At least Turks are preserving the churches by converting them to museums. Turks respect the people lived in those lands in past and do not want to lose their cultural heritage. What else could they do with empty unoccupied churches. Destroy? NO.  3-Turkey is one of the rare countries that people from different religious and ethnic groups live together in peace for a long time.

[johnnymase]

Some of the facts in that video were very wrong, such as the prophet Abraham being born in Urfa. Actually, he was born in UR in IRAQ...

[mokahraman]

The question is that Was Abraham's hometown of Ur (as you put) a southern city near the Persian Gulf in present-day Iraq,or a mere crossroads up north in present-day Turkey? there is a depate on this issue going on.

[TheDingoSA]

Wrong Istanbul wasot founded in 659 BC, the city of Byzantium was which later was Changed to the Great City of Constantinople. All Churches are of Orthodox faith,as a matter of fact if it is not Greek, further on it is Armenian and Kurdish.

[FightforDeath34]

@Paulynyc Armenian Genocide is fake, please just look it up and look at the turkish side, the murderers is the armenians!

[FightforDeath34]

Why do all haters hate Turkey? we haven't done anything bad, Turkey is a beautiful country with beautiful citizens.

Armenian lies, Terrorists with help from Eu and Usa, Injustice against Turkey and everything.

[Paulynyc]

In other words, depending on the situation, Turkey bills itself as either "secular" or "moslem" when it's politcally advantageous.

[Paulynyc]

LOL! Secular my ass--Turkey is 99 percent moslem; it's why they're always using it as a bullshit excuse why the EU won't accept them (i.e. the EU is a "Christian" club"). Meanwhile, Turkey has been holding the chairmanship of the OIC (ISLAMIC Organization Countries) for the past year, and is using its position there to further it's own agenda (i.e., recognition of the illegal puppet state in occupied Northern Cyprus).

[RainstRom1]

lol Turkey is secular country we even canceled caliph.if Turkey recognise it,after that ppl will say we want to back caliph!!!so we cant

[Paulynyc]

The way consecutive Turkish governments continue a policy to obliterate the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the seat of the spiritual leader of about 300 million Orthodox Christians, you can't possibly claim that currently different religious groups live together in peace and expect to be taken seriously.

[Paulynyc]

And yes, perhaps different religious or ethnic groups existed peacefully at one time in Anatolia, but those days are long gone, since 1915 (Armenian Genocide), 1923 Asia Minor Catastophe, 1955 Istanbul Pogrom against ethnic Greek community, 1964 further expulsion of ethnic Greeks from Istanbul...

[Paulynyc]

The Turks don't want to lose their cultural heritage? It's not the Turks' cultural heritage to lose...they inherited it, at best. What angers me is it is NEVER acknowledged that these sites are the remnants of Anatolia's Greek, Armenian or Assyrian heritage. Why are they never acknowledged as such?