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Turkish Brainwash

The world recently witnessed how the Turkish state ‘reconquered’ the 1500 year-old Byzantine holy church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, by converting it from museum to mosque. The chief Turkish Islamic cleric held a long sword in his hand during the first opening prayers of Quran, symbolizing the power of the conqueror and signifying that anything conquered by sword belongs to the conqueror – all churches, buildings, possessions, women and children of the conquered people. If the conqueror a

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Raffi Bedrosyan

Raffi Bedrosyan is a civil engineer, writer and a concert pianist, living in Toronto. Proceeds from his concerts and CDs have been donated to the construction of school, highways, and water and gas distribution projects in Armenia and Karabakh—projects in which he has also participated as a voluntary engineer. Bedrosyan was involved in organizing the Surp Giragos Diyarbakir/Dikranagerd Church reconstruction project. His many articles in English, Armenian and Turkish media deal with Turkish-Armenian issues, Islamized hidden Armenians and history of thousands of churches left behind in Turkey. He gave the first piano concert in the Surp Giragos Church since 1915, and again during the 2015 Genocide Centenary Commemoration. He is the founder of Project Rebirth, which helps Islamized Armenians return to their original Armenian roots, language and culture. He is the author of the book "Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey - hidden, not hidden, no longer hidden."

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  1. This is insane yet real! For all who feel our issues with the Turks are in the past and we should move on…..take a good look at this insightful column by Raffi. Teaching hatred is despicable. We know that this vile attempt feeds the narrative of denial of the genocide and the crimes committed. How could the poor victim Turks ever commit such an act? Incredible and sad that 100 years later they continue to feed the flames of hate. It is their way of hiding the truth. What the Turks have done and continue to do to the indigenous peoples of Anatolia is a great crime. To continue to pursue a policy of a hatred and lies puts them in a new category. The German people have moved to a new level of humanity after the dark days of the Nazis. The Turks are still stuck in the past , bullying and threatening anyone in their way like this is the 11th century with Seljuk tribes rampaging across the region…..instead it is Cyprus, Libya, Iraq Syria and Lebanon ….along with their own Kurdish citizens.
    Wake up world… you swung and missed in 1923 with the Lausanne joke…..enabling the last 80 years. Stop them before it happens again.

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