re turkey cyprus bosnia serbia greece armenia azeris in article apr iastate edu tankut iastate edu sabri t atan writes in article apr news uiowa edu mau herky cs uiowa edu mau napoleon writes from article apr iastate edu by tankut iastate edu sabri t atan well panos mr tamamidis the way you put it it is only the turks who bear the responsibility of the things happening today that is hard to believe for somebody trying to be objective when it comes to conflicts like our countries having you cannot blame one side only there always are bad guys on both sides what were you doing on anatolia after the ww anyway do you think it was your right to be there i ve heard many turks say this and it surpises me that they don t read about it remember the treaty of sevres as a consequence of being in the axis powers in wwi the turks under international law were supposed to look after their minorities ie greeks armenians kurds i must say turk kurd relations are improving slightly with time and not pose a threat to turkey s neighbours the turks blatantly rejected this treaty the germans grudgingly accepted versailles which was a million times worse for the health and pride of the german people the greeks who had an army there were there with british and french backing to enforce sevres in possibly the first example of appeasement the young turk government managed screwed the treaty of laussane out of the weak allies this was after the greek forces were were destroyed at smyrna when this occurred incidently french warships were in the harbour and many greeks trying escape swam to the french warships and climbed aboard only to get their arms cut off by the french as they clawed they re way up the sides of the ships libertae egalitae fraternatae there were a couple millions of greeks living in asia minor until someone had to protect them if not us who i am not saying that conflicts started with that it is only not one side being the aggressive and the ither always suffering it is sad that we both still are not trying to compromise i remember the action of the turkish government by removing the visa requirement for greeks to come to turkey i thought it was a positive attempt to make the relations better compromise on what the invasion of cyprus the involment of turkey in greek politics the refusal of turkey to accept miles of territorial waters as stated by international law the properties of the greeks of konstantinople the ownership of the islands in the greek lake sorry aegean there are some things on which there can not be a compromise the greeks i mentioned who wouldn t talk to me are educated people they have never met me but they know i am bad person because i am from turkey politics is not my business and it is not the business of most of the turks when it comes to individuals why the hatred any person who supports the policies of the turkish goverment directly or indirecly is a bad person it is not your nationality that makes you bad it is your support of the actions of your goverment that make you bad people do not hate you because of who you are but because of what you are you are a supporter of the policies of the turkish goverment and as a such you must pay the price so that makes me think that there is some kind of brainwashing going on in greece after all why would an educated person treat every person from a nation the same way can you tell me about your history books and things you learn about greek turkish encounters during your schooling take it easy tankut atan tankut iastate edu achtung baby you do not need brainwashing to turn people against the turks just talk to greeks arabs slavs kurds and all other people who had the luck to be under turkish occupation they will talk to you about murders rapes distruction you do not learn about turks from history books you learn about them from people who experienced first hand turkish friendliness napoleon well napoleon it is your kind of people who are preventing peace on the world first of all you didn t answer the question i asked at the end of my posting and then you told me some bullshit throughout your posting which had no positive point about the issue filled with hatred and filled with emotions why am i doing this forget it i don t think you are worth it to discuss the issue tankut atan tankut iastate edu achtung baby
