Genocide against Christians was committed in the early twentieth century by Muslim Turks and Kurds of the Ottoman Empire. The deaths were at least 1,500,000 Armenians, 750,000 Greeks, and 300,000 Assyrians.

Now, in the twenty-first century, Turkiye, under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is aiding and abetting Muslim Brotherhood organizations, including Hamas, in their goal of genocide against Jews. The theme of both genocides is the same – to eliminate non-Muslims (infidels) from Muslim lands.

The Turkish government has always denied that a genocide occurred. Rather, the government claims the deaths were a result of internal subversion during World War I. Numerous eyewitnesses contradict the assertions and speak to the atrocities. Henry Morgenthau, US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, attested that “I am confident that the whole human race contains no such horrible episode as this.” 

In 2019, the US House of Representatives passed Resolution 296 on the hundredth anniversary of the Turkish genocide against Christians. The resolution condemned “the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians.”

Adolf Hitler, on ordering his military commanders to attack Poland without provocation in 1939, dismissed objections by saying ‘‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”  setting the stage for the Holocaust. 

Amin al-Husayni was the Grand Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II. He collaborated with the Nazi’s and is photographed having a friendly meeting with Hitler. Somehow, he escaped condemnation after the War and was able to spew Nazi hatred of Jews into the Arab world.

President Erdogan has shifted Turkiye’s policy from the West to the East and is turning Turkiye from a secular nation into an Islamic nation. Turkiye remains a member of NATO despite many of its policies not meeting the membership criteria. 

Erdogan said, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that is it.”

Erdogan has built thousands of mosques throughout Turkey, Europe, and the United States. He has said:

The mosques are our barracks

The domes our helmets

The minarets our bayonets

And the faithful our soldiers

Erdogan envisions himself as the next caliph, or the temporal and spiritual head of Islam worldwide.

Genocide is defined as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.” Over the past hundred years, genocides have killed millions of people. The majority of genocides were committed in the name of communism, Islamism, or fascism.

Genocide can manifest itself in many ways, but the end result is the elimination of a race or group of people. The Jewish communities of the Muslim Arab world were liquidated over three decades in the twentieth century through persecution, pauperization, and periodic slaughter until more than 99 percent were gone. Many Jewish communities had existed for thousands of years and were before the Muslim conquests of Western Asia and northern Africa in the seventh and eighth centuries.

In 1948, there were 135,000 Jews in Iraq, 265,000 in Morocco, 140,000 in Algeria, 105,000 in Tunisia, 100,000 in Egypt, 60,000 in Yemen, 38,000 in Libya, and 30,000 in Syria. Today, only a handful of Jews live in Arab countries. Most of the Jews (known as Mizrahi) fled to Israel, where they constitute the majority of the population. The United Nations did not establish any relief fund to help with their resettlement.

Summary

Turkiye supports Islamic terror organizations such as Hamas, which aims to eliminate Israel. Erdogan personally promised to Hamas operatives protection and treatment as a family.

Hundreds of Iranian front companies are allowed to operate in Turkiye for sanctions evasion, money laundering, and covert operations.

Christian Greece is threatened by Turkiye’s proposed “Blue Homeland Law,” which would codify Turkiye’s claims to Greek islands near Turkiye, economic zones, and continental shelf boundaries affecting oil and gas explorations. The proposal is on hold due to the upcoming NATO summit scheduled for July, hosted by Turkiye.

The island of Cyprus was invaded by Turkiye in 1974 in response to the Greek Cypriots wanting to join Greece. Turkiye intervened militarily in order to protect Turkish Cypriots, who represented approximately 20 percent of the population. The island remains divided, with the southern portion being the Republic of Cyprus and a member of the EU. The northern section is the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, with only Turkiye recognizing it as a nation. The UN controls a buffer zone between the two entities.

Action   

1. Stop thinking Turkiye is a friend of the West. Erdogan’s increasingly autocratic and Islamic rule demonstrates his anti-Western stance.
2. Recognize that the West is in a gray zone war clash of civilizations against Islamism and communism. Islam is a political ideology of conquest.
3. Begin the process of removing Turkiye from NATO. 

Light one candle rather than curse the darkness.

Peace Through Strength!