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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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