The curious path ofturkey(both the word and the bird) didn’t end there. The word worked its way into many English phrases such as “talk turkey” and “quit cold turkey,” and the bird managed to become the Thanksgiving staple we know today. ...
declaration in Jassy, Moldavia, calling the Greeks to arms in order to fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire: 'The hour has struck, valiant Greeks. Let us unite with enthusiasm, our country calls us on.' Almost immediately Turks were attacked throughout Moldavia, Wallachia and Bulgaria...
The Zionists have neither in the past nor now put forward such territorial claims to Türkiye in the period from Sultan Abdul Hamid II to President Recep Erdogan and have cooperated quite constructively with the Young Turks and subsequent Turkish governments. The Zionists did not conclude any ...
Sure US trained armies do wonders against Hamas, Hussein’s ragtag army, that cannot even take out the Kurds, something the Turks do for fun, without the use of chemical weapons. But when coming up against a real, well-trained fighting force, the Imperialist Ar...
These included fighting pagans, the suppression of heresy and the resolution of conflict between Catholic groups. In 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. He encouraged military support for the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I against the Seljuk Turks and an armed...
the birth of Mohammed and the Islamic conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, or for that matter, the arrival and conquests of the Turks, beginning in the eleventh century. On the eve of the birth of Islam, most of world Jewry lived under Byzantine or Persian rule in the lands of...
scholarships, on the other hand, Uyghur refugees have no scholarship. On the other hand, they have no place for 500 Meskhetian Turks. Oh, they said, we can take millions of Arabs, also we are planning to take 2 millions of Afghans and Iranians, but we can’t take 500 Turks. Sorry...
Tehran, it will be a major blow to Iran’s hegemony in the Middle East region. Turkey has a lot of influence in Syria, as well as among the Turks of Northern Iraq. This positions them to challenge Iranian dominance in both countries as the successor state to the Ottoman Turkish Empire....
“They [the West] unfortunately separated the Turkish nation from all these lands that belong to [Turks] as much as their blood, life and love. They not only separated us [from those cities] physically; they also used all kinds of tricks to remove them from our hearts and minds.” ...
religion down the throats of secular Turks, and in six years in power it has not done so. But secular people suspect that it is just biding its time until it has tamed the army, the historic guardian of the secular state – and then it will be full steam ahead to the Islamic state...