In SightColumns

The bully is running wild

The name of the entity has changed from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. The names of the leaders have changed from Abdul Hamid II to Talaat Pasha to Kemal Atatürk to Erdogan. What hasn’t changed is that what they have has been founded on the blood o

Already a subscriber?Log in here

This story is FREE for you...

Create a free account to access this and four more articles, and get more sent to you with our e-newsletter.

Or, subscribe now for unlimited access
By submitting your email address you agree for Hairenik Association, Inc. to send you communication by email.

Stepan Piligian

Stepan Piligian was raised in the Armenian community of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, at the St. Gregory Parish. A former member of the AYF Central Executive, he is active in the Armenian community. Currently, he serves on the board of the Armenian Heritage Foundation. Stepan is a retired executive in the computer storage industry and resides in the Boston area with his wife Susan. He has spent many years as a volunteer teacher of Armenian history and contemporary issues to the young generation and adults at schools, camps and churches. His interests include the Armenian diaspora, Armenia, sports and reading.

5 Comments

  1. Quite so.
    Don’t be afraid to voice reality!
    During the 1990’s I visited the Republic’s museum in Ankara. Everything was written in turkish only…Almost everything except for the phrase about voicing reality which I used above. By Kemal Ataturk.
    So dear Armenians, Greeks and Kurds don’t be afraid to voice reality!

  2. “In one of the strongest examples of the hypocrisy of war, the defeated genocidal Turks were allowed to continue their murderous rampages and create the Turkish Republic.”

    Yes, that’s right; but, again, it was the Christian Allied powers who allowed the defeated, genocidal Muslim Ottoman Empire to continue slaughtering its Christian Armenian, Greek and Assyrian inhabitants; and then allowed it to create a new country, by the name of “Turkey.”

    I’m curious to know if Sultan Erdogan happens to know that his idol, Kemal Ataturk (a Sephardic Jew), had attended the Jewish elementary school, Semsi Effendi, run by Simon Zvi?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Back to top button