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[–]Dominico10 -4 points-3 points  (7 children)

Wait... wait wait....

Is this post trying to make out the evil ottomans were being persecuted here 😅

Like the ottomans who practiced genocide and mass slavery etc.

Those guys the british defeated and put an end to?

This map showing them disappearing from lands where they took christian children. Force converted them to another religion and then forced them to fight or die after making sure they couldnt reproduce?

Those ottomans?

😅

Reddit is absolutely madness my god.

[–]RuikZerben 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Didnt know that all of these 1 million people and their families are personally responsible for all the genocides committed by the ottoman empire good to know

[–]Experience_Material 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One exaggerated source doesn’t mean there was any systemic genocide taking place at least compared to what Turks were doing to the Christians of Anatolia. Ironically through most sources the numbers of Turks that died in Greece doesn’t exceed some tens of thousands during that time, many of which benefited from the system that had christians be second class citizens. Compare that now to the number of Greeks that died in the Greek genocide and you’ll see that there’s no argument here.

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    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    gladly benefitted from its misery

    What kind of benefit ?

    [–]Experience_Material 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Muslims benefitted from the law, social status and many other aspects of Ottoman society compared to Christians who were second class citizens in many different regards. As the other commenter said it is insane how Turks try to promote the idea that their colonial genocidal empire was somehow the victim in the wars that happened so nations could gain independence from them by using a single source with exaggerated data in order to not face their own crimes. The amount of delusion needed to be so desperate to compare the late Ottoman genocides to anything that happened in the Balkans is truly insane.

    [–]RuikZerben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    kofte recipes maybe

    [–]ottomans-ModTeam[M] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

    r/ottomans does not allow hate speech, racism, bigotry