Turkish War of Independence

position to receive support from Britain, France, and Russia due to their past as a great civilization in Classical times. In fact, the Great Powers saw Greece’s fight against the Ottomans as a war between civilization and barbarism. Some even went so far as to view it as a continuation of the Persian Wars during the Classical Period (Hamilakis 2007:78). Although Classical Greece was a part of modern Greece’s identity, Europeans also thought of classical antiquity as part of Europe’s identity…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces caused further unrest. Prime Minister Barham Saliah called American efforts to force both groups to conduct patrols together with American forces, as “band aids” and others stated upon American withdrawal from Iraq a civil war would occur within hours, (Gunter 2011, 1628). Demonstrations from pro and anti-Kurd parties, further inflamed violence and the Iraqi army’s right to enter Kurdish regions to quell the unrest caused constitutional crisis. Gunter wrote, “Article…

Are Turkish Armenians Victim or Survivals Last October on the 29th, Turkey had celebrated the Turkish Republic day’s 93 anniversary. Every single government representative talked about the independence “War” and the great victory of the proclamation of The Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kamal Ataturk (Hardy). None of the officials; however, referenced how did this republic build. Nobody mentioned the lands that were emptied after the genocide. Nor the systematic ethnic cleansing brought up. Hence,…

The Ottoman Empire, also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I.After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a…

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide in the 20th century. It was a cruel event much like other genocides, but this particular one killed an estimation of 1,500,000 people. Armenians were blamed by Turkish for partnering up with the Russians during World War I. The consequence for the Armenians resulted in being forced to give up their weapons; Also those that were in the army were killed or put into slave work until they died. The Turks would find any way to get rid of the Armenians.…

author Michael Bobelian, who wrote about not only the events of the Armenian genocide, but the continual denial of it that continues even today. Today, despite pressure from around the world, the Turkish Government still continues to deny the events that occurred against the Armenian people during world war 1, and today this refusal still affects not only the survivors of this massacre, but their ancestors Christians around the world. The Armenian Genocide was a plot established by the leaders…

Since July 4, 2003 a deep-rooted antipathy towards US has been held by Turks. On that day Turkish Headquarters in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Northern Iraq was exposed to attack by US forces. As a result of it, 11 member of Turkish Armed Forces were forcibly put sacks on their heads and taken out handcuffed. They were retained for 60 hours interrogation and then released. This incident was recorded as The Hood Event in the history. The Hood Event caused the biggest crisis in the partnership…

changes attributed to reforms. Such an example is the Kemalist reforms that set by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He is one of the most famous and revolutionary people of the twentieth century. He was the first president and the one who found the modern Turkish republic. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk needed a very short time in order to create or change many laws and also reform outlooks and horizons of the humanity of a nation. Kemal Ataturk sometimes compared with national redeemer because he did many reforms…

200-year period where Armenia was caught between 2 empires The Iranian and The Ottoman. Historical Armenia ended up being divided between the Russian and the Ottoman later known as the Turkish. There were periodical massacres of Armenians in the 1890’s which was organized by the Turkish authorities. The Turkish used World War I to basically remove the Armenian population. It was…

In a series of brilliant maneuvers and diplomacy, he gradually pushed out all the European occupiers, won support for the cause of Turkish nationhood throughout the country, preserved Turkish sovereignty in all of the Anatolia landmass, and demanded to be respected on equal terms of the old Empire, and Ataturk was able to proclaim, in 1923, the new Republic of Turkey. He lead the new government as President and…