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The Grand Turk
Why has Erdogan released genealogy of thousands of Turks?
2018-03-04
A very good question. Why is Dawn asking it?
[DAWN] ONLY in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
 the identity of a citizen is a matter of national security. That’s why the population registry in Ankara was until now a closed book, its details a state secret. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s definition of "Ottoman Turkishness" was "anyone who is attached to the Ottoman Turkish state as a citizen". Turks came from a clear ethnic identity, untainted by racial minorities or doubtful lineage. That’s one reason why the Nazis lavished praise on Ataturk’s republic, their newspapers mourning his death in black-bordered front pages.

After all, as Hitler was to ask in several newspaper interviews ‐ and to his generals before he invaded Poland ‐ who now remembers the Armenians? Ataturk had supposedly inherited an Armenian-free Turkey, just as Hitler intended to present his followers with a Jew-free Europe. The Armenian genocide of 1915 ‐ denied by the Ottoman Turkish government today ‐ destroyed a million and a half Christian Ottoman citizens in the first industrial holocaust of the 20th century. Almost the entire Armenian community had been liquidated. Or had it?
Posted by:Fred

#5  My point being, they can't afford the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Turkey and racial purity. They don't look like Turks from the turkish homelands back in Kazakhstan or Tuva. For comparison, look at the current Russian defense minister, who's half Russian and half Tuvan.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-03-04 19:38  

#4  (There. That should get us banned in Turkey.)

Indeed.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-04 18:26  

#3  A comment I'd like to make, partly in response to TW's, and partly in response to the article itself: you can tell the Turks that are part Greek/Arab/Armenin/Kurdish/whatever instead of being Turkish because they're the ones that aren't short, black-haired, yellow-skinned, and with black slanted eyes.

In short, you can tell the ones that aren't really Turks but instead are some racially inferior halfbreed sub-human thing because they don't look like East Asians, and they look like, well, Erdogan.

(There. That should get us banned in Turkey.)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-03-04 12:33  

#2  I wonder if the release of genealogies, showing that many Turks are actually of Armenian descent, is actually intended to create a new class of those assumed to be disloyal so that, like the Gulenists, they can be arrested and stripped of their assets?

And now that Armenia has broken off normalization, there is a country that will welcome them, and which can be blamed — possibly even a potential war in the making, as there now is against the Kurds...
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-04 10:31  

#1  her real Armenian name was Heranus

That's a very unfortunate name if you live in an English-speaking society.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-03-04 00:32  

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