Yeah but didn't the Muslims attack, plliage and steal the city of
Constantinople from the Christians in 1453?
Isn't it about time reparations are made for the Muslim pillaging that
occured back then? Stealing an entire city from the Christians is quite an
offense. And it's fully documented.
Byzantium, Istanbul
The city was originally founded as Byzantium (Greek: ?????????) in the early
days of Greek colonial expansion. Constantine later refounded a new city on
this site. After a history of over 1,100 years as the principal city of the
eastern Empire, and then the capital after the fall of the western Empire of
the Roman Empire, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday May 29,
1453 (see Fall of Constantinople).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople
FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE; CAPITAL OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE
When the tragic hour struck, the emperor had only about 7000 men, including
all foreign succour. Since March, 1453, the Turks, to the number of 200,000,
had invested the city; the preceding year they had built on the Bosporus the
redoubtable fortress of Rumeli-Hissar. Their fleet also held the entrance to
the Dardanelles, but was prevented from entering the Golden Horn by a strong
iron chain that barred its mouth. But Mohammed II caused seventy of his
ships to slide on greased planks behind Galata; in this way they entered the
Golden Horn (22 April). He then cast across it a bridge of boats broad
enough to allow the passage of five soldiers abreast, while his troops,
constantly renewed, kept up without ceasing their attacks by land.
Eventually the defenders were exhausted by the toils of a continuous and
hopeless conflict, while their ranks grew steadily thinner through death or
wounds. The population gave no help and was content to taunt the Latins,
while waiting for the miracle of Heaven that was to save them. Finally, 29
May, 1453, about 4 o'clock in the morning, a furious assault of the Turks
broke down the walls and gates of the city, and the besiegers burst in from
every side. Emperor Constantine fell like a hero at the gate of St.Romanus.
St. Sophia was immediately transformed into a mosque, and during three days
the unhappy city was abandoned to unspeakable excesses of cruelty and
debauchery. The next year, at the demand of the sultan himself, Gennadius
Scholarius, Rome's haughty adversary, was appointed Patriarch of
Constantinople, and soon the Greek Church was reestablished, almost in its
former position.
Thus was granted the sacrilegious prayer of so many Greeks, blinded by
unreasoning hate, that henceforth, not the tiara, but the turban should rule
in the city of Constantine. Even the name of the city was changed. The Turks
call it officially (in Arabic) Der-es-Saadet, Door of Happiness, or (chiefly
on coins) Konstantinieh. Their usual name for it is Stamboul, or rather
Istamboul, a corruption of the Greek expression eis ten polin (pronounced
stimboli), perhaps under the influence of a form, Islamboul, which could
pass for "the city of Islam". Most of the churches, like St. Sophia, were
gradually converted into mosques. This was the fate of SS. Sergius and
Bacchus -- a beautiful monument built by Justinian, commonly called "the
little St. Sophia"; of the church of the monastery of Khora, whose splendid
mosaics and pictures, mostly of the fourteenth century, are among the
principal curiosities of the city; of the churches of the celebrated
Pantocrator and Studium monasteries, etc. Other churches were demolished and
replaced by various buildings; thus the church of the Holy Apostles gave way
to the great mosque built by the conquering Sultan Mohammed II. The imperial
tombs in this church were violated; some of their gigantic red porphyry
sarcophagi were taken to the church of St. Irene. The latter is the only
church taken from the Greeks that has not been changed into a mosque or
demolished; it became, and is yet an arsenal, or rather a museum of ancient
weapons.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04301a.htm
Post by Ali AskerTurkey didn't even existed during the WW1!
Do you forget the fact that Turkey and Turks are the fake country with
fake people who have no roots, no history and no fucken intelligent.
Just show me a singe Ottoman article which refers to empire being turkish,
turkey or turan!
Post by BabaÂBey the TurkEngland owes Turkey some important explanations
regarding England's shameful role in WW1, and after, on Ottoman soil,
incl. Palestine...
England has to clean itself from the sins it has committed against the Ottoman Turks...
England has to open all its military and war archives regarding
the true motives for their war plans against the Ottoman Empire in WW1, and after.
England must recognize the shameful crimes it has committed
against the Turks in WW1 and after.
I'm sure Jewish influence and greed had played a very big role in this
shameful period of the British history...