17th century Turkey was the great existential threat to European civilization.
It was the last great Islamic imperialist threat to Europe.
20th century Turkey was a state built on genocide of Christians
- a genocide that is still denied.
21st century Turkey is a state that has still failed to embrace western ideas,
and is going backwards into Islamic authoritarianism.
The crucifixion of Christian girls by the Turks in 1915
during the Armenian Genocide.
From a movie re-enactment of the genocide memoir
Ravished Armenia.
Real life was actually worse than this:
In real life, the Christian girls were executed by
impalement through the vagina.
The Battle of Vienna, 11-12 Sept 1683,
when the Turks threatened European civilization.
One gets the feeling that the modern left would have supported the Turks.
Image from
LOC.
See
more.
Far from being propaganda, this image far understates the actual horror.
One account
of the 1876 massacre said:
"We looked again at the heap of skulls and skeletons before us, and we observed that they were all small and that the articles of clothing intermingled with them and lying about were all women's apparel. These, then, were all women and girls.
... The skulls were nearly all separated from the rest of the bones - the skeletons were nearly all headless. These women had all been beheaded.
...
It is to be remarked that all the skeletons found here were dressed in a chemise only, and this poor child had evidently been stripped to her chemise, partly in the search for money and jewels, partly out of mere brutality, and afterwards killed. We have tallied with many women who had passed through all parts of the ordeal but the last, and the procedure seems to have been, as follows: They would seize a woman, strip her carefully to her chemise, laying aside articles of clothing that were valuable, with any ornaments and jewels she might have about her. Then as many of them as cared would violate her, and the last man would kill her or not as the humour took him.
At the next house a man stopped us to show where a blind little brother had been burned alive
...
On the other side of the way were the skeletons of two children lying side by side .. with frightful, sabre cuts in their little skulls. The number of children killed in these massacres is something enormous. They were often spitted on bayonets, and we have several stories from eye-witnesses who saw the little babes carried about the streets .. on the points of bayonets. The reason is simple. When a Mohammedan has killed a certain number of infidels he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may be."
William Gladstone
wrote at length about the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria in 1876:
Even before the 20th century genocide of non-Muslims,
the world was well aware
that the Ottoman Turks slaughtered Christians
and followed
Islamic extremism.
Clear-sighted
1903 cartoon in New York.
See full size.
This was posted at a left-wing
University of Chicago site
that complains about the
"negative stereotyping"
of the cartoon.
The same left-wing site
complains about a Cox and Forkum cartoon.
The "Young Turks" were supposedly "secular",
and yet, of course, their ideas led to
genocide against non-Muslims in Turkey.
It is perverted that the phrase
"Young Turks" has become an innocuous term for any up-and-coming members
of any group.
It should be a term that has the same meaning to us
as "Nazi Youth".
A Modern Jihad Genocide
by Andrew G. Bostom
- The Young Turks as genocidal Islamo-fascists.
The genocide of Christians
as a natural outcome of dhimmitude.
The Orthodox Christian
Holocaust
of the 20th century
(at the hands of the Turks, the Soviets, the Nazis and the Croats).
"it
is reasonable to conclude that
up to 50 million Orthodox Christians
have perished [in democide]
in the first eight decades of the twentieth century.
...
Unfortunately, the depth and range of the Orthodox suffering throughout the world in this century,
remains largely unknown and
unappreciated in the West."
Ataturk
is described as
"the founder of the Republic of Turkey and the consummator of the Armenian Genocide.
...
Mustafa Kemal completed what Talaat and Enver had started in 1915, the eradication of the Armenian population of Anatolia and the termination of Armenian political aspirations in the Caucasus. With the expulsion of the Greeks,
the Turkification and Islamification of Asia Minor was nearly complete."
Democide denial
This is of course a controversial topic in Turkey,
where democide denial
is almost universal.
Discussion of this topic is taken as attacking their very national identity
and their national heroes.
Note that
this is quite normal for democides.
Of the
5 worst democides of the 20th centuryonly the German democide is freely and openly acknowledged
in its home country.
Japan is still in denial about their democide,
China is very much in denial about Mao's democide,
and Russia is still largely in denial about the Soviet democide.
Only the Germans have fully come
to terms with their past.
Turkey was only 60 percent Muslim in 1850.
It was 40 percent non-Muslim.
Now Turkey is 100 percent Muslim.
The Christian and Greek civilization of Anatolia is gone. It is annihilated.
From here.
This is like creationists suing the biology department.
Happily, they lost.
See
judgement, May 2012, which states:
"the "denial" statement reasonably can be construed as stating simply that the TCA website denies that the treatment of Armenians within Turkey during World War I meets the definition of the term "genocide." ... Because the TCA website
does, in fact, state
that it is "highly unlikely that a genocide charge could be sustained against the Ottoman government or its successor" ... the Center's statement under this interpretation is true and, thus, .. not actionable."
Startling image from the above
showing the crucifixion of Christian girls by the Turks in 1915.
See clip at 21:45
and still at 23:05.
The crucifixion of Christian girls in
Malatya
in 1915
was described on
pp.132-133
of the book
Ravished Armenia (1918).
This was also published in
The Daily News, Perth, Australia,
21 May 1920.
By the way, anyone who thinks the Armenian Genocide was not
jihad
should read this book.
The killers are clearly motivated by Islam and hate for the infidel.
Many foolish westerners have admired the butcher Ataturk,
including even some otherwise sensible people.
Daniel Hannan lets me down, 4 June 2013:
"I'm a fan of secularism and of Atatürk
...
Even now, I find it hard to read Atatürk's words without a catch in my voice."
Anti-Islamist protests in Turkey, May 2013 on, sound good. The Islamist Erdogan is certainly a primitive, backwards step for Turkey.
However, one is disturbed by the protesters' promotion of Ataturk.
"For the protesters who have taken part in Turkey's anti-government demonstrations, Ataturk is a hero. Dead for 75 years, he has become the reborn symbol of this student-driven anti-Erdogan movement."
"Erdogan wants to raze Gezi Park and rebuild the Ottoman military barracks that used to be there. The barracks were the site of a 1909 attempt by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to
stop the liberal reforms that eventually led to Ataturk's modern republic."
It is a terrible shame that the sultan did not
stop the "liberal reforms".
The "liberals" committed genocide, not the sultan.
He made, for the Turkish protests, a similar creepy, totalitarian-style
Ataturk poster.
He absurdly says:
"Ataturk was a champion of Turkish Democracy and secular government. I am offering a free download of my Ataturk image as a symbol of democracy and free speech."
A "champion of democracy" who did not allow opposition parties!
Ataturk's 20th century "democracy"
compares poorly to Britain's 18th century democracy:
Above is
A View of the House of Commons, published 1749.
From
NPG.
See full size.
Britain's democracy was deeply flawed at this point,
but the
1747 election
was still between multiple parties,
which puts it well ahead of Ataturk's Turkey.
In England,
named parties go back to the
1685 election,
and competition in general goes back
much further.
When the
2013 protesters put together a crowd-funded ad
for the New York Times,
the first version they came up with said they were
"the proud inheritors of Ataturk's legacy."
See full size.
Thankfully they changed it for the
final version.
But it still shows a worrying blindness about Ataturk among Turkey's youth.
Fetih 1453 (2012).
Turkish propaganda movie where the jihadist conquerors of Constantinople in 1453
are the good guys!
Oddly, it leaves out the raping and killing of Christian women and children by the invading army,
the looting of churches,
selling the Christians into slavery, and so on.
The evil invading jihadist army shouts "Allah Akbar",
just like modern jihadists.
See negative reviews.
At the end
of the movie,
Mehmed the Conqueror
plays with smiling Christian children,
instead of raping and killing them
and selling them into slavery.
"I am honored to pay tribute to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a man whose vision, tenacity and courage put the Republic of Turkey on the path of democracy and whose legacy continues to inspire generations around the world."
- America's useless President Obama,
on a visit to Turkey, Apr 2009,
pays tribute
to the dictator
Ataturk, the butcher of the Christians of Turkey.