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The Turks are irked, but whether they actually have good reason to be is another question altogether. They’re angry because in its tourism presentations on the Acropolis, the Greeks have slighted, in Turkish eyes, the period of the Ottoman occupation.
The Ottoman Turks occupied Greece from the fifteenth century until 1821, and for Greeks in general, this is not a happy memory. The Turks enforced Islamic rules, relegating non-Muslims to second-class status, and Greeks had to endure continuous discrimination and harassment that occasionally broke out into violence. The Greek Orthodox Church venerates a whole host of Christians whom the Turks killed for leaving Islam, or for declining to convert to Islam, as “the new martyrs of the Turkish yoke.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe Athens could demand that Turkey restore all Greek, Armenian and Assyrian heritage sites, starting, but not ending w/ Hagia Sofia. Then maybe, just maybe, they’d consider restoring Turkish artefacts at the Acropolis
GE says
+💯
zimriel says
Seems like Spencer has become versed in saj’ rhymed prose. Al-Hajjaj would be proud.