Gündüz Suphi Aktan, Turkey's former ambassador to Greece, United Nations and Japan and a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, passed away on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at the age of 67, due to kidney tumor.
Gündüz Suphi Aktan was born in Safranbolu, on August 7, 1941. After graduating from the political…
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It is apparent, from the dire straits in which we find ourselves
today, that the 80-year long silence of the Turks has cost them a great
deal.
During that time, a great number of Haiks settled in Western
countries, became assimilated by the local culture and integrated
themselves seamlessly into the political system. Compare this with the
fact that,…
Instead of countering these lies with the truth; systematically
educating Turkish citizens in the Motherland and in the Diaspora;
sponsoring organized academic research to demonstrate historical facts
efficiently; sponsoring movies and documentaries; putting together
scientific panels, debates, lectures and programs; producing
high-quality fact-oriented publications on a widespread international
platform; crushing the elements of lie and hatred through facts and
civilized, modern, and…
The Haik attempts to influence the world opinion about mistreatment of minorities within the Ottoman Empire, particularly to fool the opinion in Europe and in the US, have started as early as the first decade of the 20th century, and continued to-date. The purpose has always been the same: With the help of Russia and…
The formation of independent states in the Balkans in the course of
the 19th c. had been a particularly traumatic and bloody affair.
Although atrocities were committed on both sides, only the Christian
deaths have caused a reaction in Europe. Muslim deaths were largely
ignored. In his excellent book "Death and Exile", Professor Justin
McCarty investigates the toll of 100…
Every parasitic organism looks out for an occasion which would lower
the immune defenses of its host in order to begin to multiply, gain
strength and take over some part of the host. That is why these are
called opportunistic organisms. A good example are fungi. These
microbial cells cause yeast infections when their host takes
antibiotics to fight off…
The Ottoman Empire developed a policy of "Open Doors" and religious
tolerance, beginning with the Greeks of Constantinople and the Haik of
Bursa, and later the Haik of Crimea; continuing with the Jews expelled
from Spain and later from Russia; and extending to numerous other
minorities and victims of political persecution. In order to accomodate
all these into the existing…
Seljuk Years
The first interaction of the Haik with Turks occurred in the 10th c.
AD, during the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, as Turkish commanders and
their families in the service of the Abbasids came in contact with
them. The Seljuk commander Cagri Bey, father of AlpArslan organized a
reconnaissance party into Eastern Anatolia during 1015-20. At that
time,…
The Armenians claim that the so-called Armenian Plateau is their "historic homeland". They consider Mount Ararat (seen here
in a photograph by S. Hambartzumyan, taken from Armenia, looking West
towards Turkey) not only sacred but also theirs, and long for the days
it will belong to them again. A picture of Mount Ararat is in their Coat of…
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