Posted on Jul 26, 2016
Turkish military a fractured force after attempted coup
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Sad Situation for a Country with a Proud Military Heritage
Turkish military a fractured force after attempted coup
Posted from reuters.com
Turkey
World History
Military History
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I'm not sure Armenians, Anatolian Greeks, Kurds or any other ethnic minority in Turkey would agree that it's a proud military heritage. http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/center-study-genocide-conflict-resolution-and-human-rights/genocide-ottoman-greeks-1914-1923 I will agree that the military was an important secular influence in Turkey and that it's weakness bodes ill those who don't support an Islamic State in Turkey.
The Genocide of Ottoman Greeks, 1914-1923 | Rutgers–Newark Colleges of Arts & Sciences
Pontian and Anatolian Greeks were victims of a broader Turkish genocidal project aimed at all Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire. A total of more than 3.5 million Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians were killed under the successive regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa Kemal from roughly 1914 to 1923. Of this, as many as 1.5 million Greeks may have died. The end of the genocide marked a profound rupture in the long Greek historical...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Great Point. Some Serious Evils were done by Various Ottoman/Turkish Military Leaders.
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