And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
His path through life is lined by millions of Armenian dead: slaughtered, burnt, starved masses of humanity ... and never a word of compassion or regret by him or his successors.
Atatürk (and his successors) as a committed realist? Maybe. Ultra-nationalists, cold-blooded mass murderers, ethno-fascist dictators, mega-corrupt sultans would appear as equally suitable descriptions.
He had an entire menagerie called "Abdul".
ReplyDeleteHis path through life is lined by millions of Armenian dead: slaughtered, burnt, starved masses of humanity ... and never a word of compassion or regret by him or his successors.
ReplyDeleteThat Martin is the true sign of a committed realist in the driver's seat.
DeleteAtatürk (and his successors) as a committed realist? Maybe.
DeleteUltra-nationalists, cold-blooded mass murderers, ethno-fascist dictators, mega-corrupt sultans would appear as equally suitable descriptions.
Enver Pasha and others genocided the Armenians. Ataturk was not involved.
DeleteI has been a sh !thole country since 1453.
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ReplyDeleteMustapha Kemal Ataturk and Sulieman the Magnificent, the two most famous Turks, both had blue eyes, inherited from Circassian (Ukrainian) mothers.
ReplyDeleteMustapha Kemal Ataturk and Sulieman the Magnificent, the two most famous Turks, both had blue eyes, inherited from Circassian (Ukrainian) mothers.
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