{"id":774845,"date":"2022-12-23T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=774845"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:59:14","slug":"greeks-turks-and-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2022\/12\/23\/greeks-turks-and-armenians\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeks, Turks and Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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How do Greeks, Turks and Armenians feel about each other’s countries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel sad. Deeply sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could be a great! A united superpower, if we had stood together and haven\u2019t killed each other in hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes Ottomans mistreated Armenians, mistreated Greeks but they certainly mistreated Turks too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end it was Turkish Kemalists who pulled the rug under the Ottoman Sultanate, It was us who destroyed the caliphate. We finished the work which we all Greeks, Armenians and Turks started together in the first place. I am talking about the Young Turk movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes we forced the first constitution together. Here Turkish, Greek and Armenian leaders signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our great endeavor was hijacked and sabotaged. Minorities sought their own independent small and weak countries. Organizations got corrupted, people sought personal glory. We were led to slaughter each other by the imperialistic powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even after such brutality, all of us Greek, Armenian and Turk we still miss our collective songs, cuisine, our neighborhood. When outside in a mixed nationality Turks and Greeks always find each other. Its always the Greek guy who laughs when the other stare confused by the lame ass naughty joke the Turk makes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greeks were the great intellectuals and traders, Armenians were the great craftsman and artisans, Turks were the farmers, herders, great soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divide and Conquer was at its best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we would have none of the worries, State would be much more secular with strong and healthy non-Muslim population. We would have no conflict in the Mediterranean. Caucasian region would be secure. None of the tragedies would have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a song which the lyrics are adopted by B\u00fclent Ecevit. Here the songs goes like<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S\u0131la derdine d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnce anlars\u0131n (When you get home sick you understand)
Yunanl\u0131yla karde\u015f oldu\u011funu (You are brothers with the Greek)
Bir rum \u015fark\u0131s\u0131 duyunca g\u00f6r (When you hear a Greek song, You will see )
Gurbet elde \u0130stanbul \u00e7ocu\u011funu (A fellow child of Istanbul, alone in a foreign land)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00fcrk\u00e7enin ferah g\u00f6nl\u00fcnce k\u00fcfretmi\u015fiz (We swore in open hearted Turkish)
Olmu\u015fuz kanl\u0131 b\u0131\u00e7akl\u0131 (We feuded)
Yine de bir sevgidir i\u00e7imizde (But its love that is in our hearts)
B\u00f6yle bar\u0131\u015f g\u00fcnlerinde sakl\u0131 (It surfaces in times of peace)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bir soyun kan\u0131 olmas\u0131n vars\u0131n (Let a clan not be about blood)
Damarlar\u0131m\u0131zda akan kan (The blood that is running through our veins)
\u0130\u00e7imizde \u015fu deli r\u00fczg\u00e2r (The crazy wind blows inside)
Bir havadan (\u0130s of the same air)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bu ya\u011fmurla c\u00f6mert (Generous is the rain)
Bu g\u00fcne\u015fle s\u0131cak (Warm is the sun)
G\u00f6nl\u00fcm\u00fczden bahar dolusu kopan (Our hearts full of springs)
\u0130yilikler kucak kucak (Goodness is aplenty)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bu sudan bu tattand\u0131r ikimizde de g\u00fcnah (From this water, from this taste is the sin for both of us)
B\u00fct\u00fcn i\u00e7kiler gibi zarar\u0131 kadar leziz (Tasty as sin, as all the harms of drinks)
Bir iklimin meyvas\u0131ndan s\u0131zd\u0131r\u0131lm\u0131\u015f (Distilled from the same fruit of this climate),
Bir i\u00e7kidir k\u00f6t\u00fcl\u00fcklerimiz (Our evils are one drinks)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aram\u0131zda bir mavi b\u00fcy\u00fc (A blue magic between us)
Bir s\u0131cak deniz (A warm and gentle sea)
K\u0131y\u0131lar\u0131nda birbirinden g\u00fczel (With coasts as beautiful as any)
\u0130ki milletiz (We are two peoples)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bizimle dirilecek bir g\u00fcn (One day together we will resurrect)
Ege’nin alt\u0131n \u00e7a\u011f\u0131 (The golden age of the Aegean)
Yan\u0131p yar\u0131n\u0131n ate\u015finden (Tomorrow the new fire will burn)
Eskinin oca\u011f\u0131 (The old oven)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6nce bir kahkaha \u00e7al\u0131n\u0131r kula\u011f\u0131na (First you will hear a familiar laughter)
Sonra rum \u015fiveli t\u00fcrk\u00e7eler (They you will hear Turkish in Greek accent)
O Bo\u011faz’dan s\u00f6z eder (He or She speaks about the Bosphorus)
Sen rak\u0131y\u0131 hat\u0131rlars\u0131n (And you remember the Rak\u0131)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yunanl\u0131yla karde\u015f oldu\u011funu (You remember you are Brothers with the Greek)
S\u0131la derdine d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnce anlars\u0131n (When you get homesick)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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