The first time I landed in Constantinople, I was thirteen. What amazed me was the human misery I was met with. Then, I entered this once glorious capital of empires. I could not link the faces and comportment of the peoples I met with the architecture that had been erected and that I admired. It seemed the constructors of the city, hunted down, had left in all haste. The people around me were just the occupiers of someone else’s achievements.
That’s “türkiye” in a nut shell. All the autochtone libertarians I met grinned and agreed! Not one exception!
And someone did say that a “türk” had a Nobel prize in literature ; a Pamuk … with a name that means cotton in Persian or Βάμβακας or Βαμβακόπουλος in Greek, and the man did not look very Turanic. Notwithstanding the fact that he wrote about how great Constantinople was compared to miserable Istanbul!
Despite the fact that all wars bring about human and animal misery, I cannot but agree with the saying : “War is the father of all and king of all; and some he shows as gods, others as men, some he makes slaves, others free.” Dixit Heraclitus!
I am sure you follow the war since 2011 against Syria, the oldest country in the world. Now, in order for us to keep to our subject matter, please indulge me and admire the comportment of the “türk” politicians and military there. Do the “türk” military interventions strike you as intelligent, required or militarily effective ?
Of course, the “türk” is the ally of the Sunni-Muslim fanatics and the Russian oligarchs in Syria. The Syrians are the allies of the Russians, too !
Who is going to be made slave in this complex war structure : the “türk” or the Russians ?