There is no one left alive that can give much first hand knowledge about the Ottoman Empire…..unless one is a history major or buff. It has been about 93 years since the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state that was founded in 1299 after growing out of the break-down of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to include many areas in what is now present-day Europe to and it eventually became one of the largest, most powerful and longest-lasting empires in the history of the world. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire included the areas of Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.
In the 1700s the Ottoman Empire began to rapidly deteriorate following the Russo-Turkish Wars and a series of treaties during that time caused the empire to lose some of its economic independence. The Crimean War, which lasted from 1853-1856, further exhausted the struggling empire. In 1856 the independence of the Ottoman Empire was recognized by the Congress of Paris but it was still losing its strength as a European power.
In the late 1800s, there were several rebellions and the Ottoman Empire continued to lose territory and political and social instability in the 1890s created international negativity toward the empire. The Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and uprisings by Turkish nationalists further reduced the empire’s territory and increased instability. Following the end of World War One, the Ottoman Empire officially came to an end with the Treaty of Sevres.
I bring up this simplistic history about Turkey because of the situation today in the Middle East.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan called last year for the “conquest” of Europe by Islam “through emigration” into Europe and announced that the “conquest is to have the courage, tenacity, and sagacity to defy the entire world even at the hardest times.”
The speech, delivered in Istanbul on May 30, 2015, at a public meeting celebrating the 562nd anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire’s Muslim armies, has just been translated into English for the first time.
Source: Erdogan and the Return of the Ottoman Empire – The New Observer
Turkey’s interest in northern Syria and northern Iraq is not an abstraction triggered by a group of religious fanatics calling themselves the Islamic State; it is the bypass, intersection and reinforcement of multiple geopolitical wavelengths creating an invisible force behind Ankara to re-extend Turkey’s formal and informal boundaries beyond Anatolia.
They, Turkey, has already started making in roads in the empire business…..they have ground troops in Syria and Iraq and they have little intention of leaving…..
Turkey insisted on Thursday that its troops will remain in Iraq despite Baghdad’s growing anger ahead of a planned operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS.
I sigh and wait for sleep……….~~dru~~
Cute! 😉
Insomnia….it is how I get so much writing done….LOL chuq
Islamification of Europe…….
and ‘they’ know it….having visited various sites (twitter) in Austria/Europe etc…….they will not stand for it…look under white genocide hash tag…I know Gatestone….which is, wot it is..always good to look at opposing sides….good post…chuq…
did I mention I am suffering from bloody flu!
I also sigh & wait for sleep….cough cough sneeze sneeze
In meantime the Greek I spoke to in regard to politics…said ‘tanks will roll’ Soros came up…nasty individual..truly nasty…as for the government…malacas!
thank god most Greeks speak English…v.politically aware…
The Greeks are not stupid which is more than I can say for some other countries….
interesting times ahead.
Malacas.
Malcas refers to the word mildew, grime, dirt,mold, basically everything that has to do with kitchen and bathroom crap. Malacas cannot be cleaned up …
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MALAKA
Or for another spelling and interpretation. ~~dru~~
True… 😉
Update…I follow a neo/nazi in Austria…know thy enemy..he popped up yesterday with the most appalling tweet….how it gets past the censors I have no idea…intelligent,if u call ‘hate’ intelligent.. believes in the ‘pure’ race..Ukraine is full of them big march the other day….these people if one could call them that are coming out loud & clear since the migrant problem…which is why I always thought Merkel stupid…or is she part of an agenda..Kalergi plan/Soros/zionists..I think she is..(other than that she is stupid)..divide & rule…if they wanted to stop the war they could….but that does not seem the agenda….does it now? In the meantime the people/migrants suffer ……by the way there are also male migrants who are being paid to disrupt….causing more problems for the genuine refugees….it is a dirty world re the puppet masters.
Turkey seems to be following the lead of the States … do what it wants no matter the consequences.
I cannot say that i’m not afraid of this. My father was at the war of1974 missing for 6 months between greeks and turkey in Cyprus. My mother is a greek refugee from the North of Cyprus. Kissinger orchestrated with the help of some Greeks junta’s invasion in Cyprus. Some greeks sold their pride for some dollars. They gave Turkey the reason to invade and expand its ottoman empire. Turkey will never give up territories that belong to the so called big Turkey. It orchestrates politics in North Greece ,Albania, Fyrom and beyond. In North Greece muslim minorities as the Pomaks have been told to say that they are turkish and not pomaks. Erdogan scares me but i believe that he is scared also…that’s the reason behind all these threats.
Thanx for your insights I know so little about the 1970’s situation…..chuq
Insane people will pursue their insane dreams, won’t they? Probably an accurate assessment, the upshot of which makes Erdogan easily manipulated, and a target for those who sell the weapons, to both sides….
As long as nationalism, or regionalism, or any of them produce rage, hatred, and fear, those who engage in it are destined for a lifetime of conflict, and trouble of their own making.
Wherever they live.
gigoid, the dubious
Erdogan is a snake in the sand…..he needs to be whacked down….chuq
Let’s lock him, Obama, Hillary, & Donald in a room, & throw the key away….
A bunch of others come to mind, as well, to join them….
gigoid
They are cowards…they would just form more dangerous alliances and then escape…LOL chuq
Hah! Shows what you know. Any such room I would use would have no doors….
If they can lie to us, well, why not do it to them? I’ve always enjoyed the poem “The Cask of Amontillado”, as a means of revenge… Doors made of bricks….
gigoid, feeling a bit bloody-minded
I like high electric charge….chuq
Aye, ’tis a quick solution, and a satisfying boom…. but, you don’t get to hear the extended screaming, and enjoy the thought of what they’re doing to each other in there, for days on end…. SIGH, good times….We gotta find our fun somewhere, right?
*wink*
Exactly….chuq