Copy that. A Turkish version of what’s happening as i type this is probably different from each of the Syrian, Iraqi, and Iranian refugees versions my wife and I hear as we prepare meals for them twice a week at the refugee camp here in Greece. Haven’t heard nor even met one Turkish person yet, though, interesting? Guess they must still have homes. 🤔

I probably shouldn’t mention Kurdistan then seeing how the first story I relayed to you didn’t seem to go over well and I didn’t even get to the part of them telling me about their houses and land they haven’t seen for 30 years and are forbidden to visit. Met a Kurdish dude a few months ago.. ooh wee! He even had “Kurd” tattooed on his arm and informed me should Turkish military learn of it, it’s immediate death to him. Even his language is being destroyed, books are burned and they’re forbidden to speak Kurdish in public. He ha to flee to Canada and now resides in UK. His country is completely wiped off the map now, even google says it doesn’t exist anymore. Turkey, however, it’s a little bit bigger. 🤔

I’m from the US, the country who had Japanese prison camps in various locations throughout the states during WWII where they rounded up anyone and everyone who simply “looked” Japanese. They’re currently building a wall to keep their own people in while doing things like sanctioning Venezuela trying to starve them out. And the lies they’re portraying to the media these days about Iran and nuclear weapons, what a crock! But there’s probably two versions to that one, too, but since I’m from the US, any version that doesn’t sound like mine is BS and “there’s two sides to every story.”

Oh man, what the US did to Libya... sound familiar? But why stop there? I appreciate introducing information to people about my countries heritage and what got them to where they are—Cuba... Vietnam.... Japan. And I didn’t even mention the civil war one where it was them against.. well, “them.”

You’re right about two sides to the story, for sure! I bet back in the 40’s, the Germans versions of events were a lot different than the rest of the world (probably still are).

This response sure did get long, huh? Could you imagine if school systems taught this stuff? I can only repeat what I’ve heard, @anonymity5, I believe in wOrd of mouth—I believe books are written and then called #history and they teach it, where I come from, in the American indoctrination system (public school). If everyone I meet tells me, collectively, horrible things about Turkey and, out of everywhere I’ve been, it’s apparent Turkish people aren’t forced to flee their homes therefor I can’t sit across the table from them and hear from them directly, I can only believe ALL of those other countries.

I’m just relaying what I’ve heard, personally, with my own ears, from the English, Croatians, Moroccans, Iranians, Syrians, Iraqi’s, one Albanian, a chick from Belgium, one from Budapest (probably more).. I mean, I guess it’s possible they’re all collectively wrong in harmony and at the same time.

It’s not just “the Greek version,” it’s all of Europe, actually.

Thank you for drawing out this winded response from me, @anonymity5, I really appreciate conversations like this. Unfortunately, I don’t make friends this way. People tend to get offended when I say what I think.

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In my own defense and truthful only hearing one side of the story from several Middle Eastern native country people such as the ones I mentioned above, I felt bad when I obviously rubbed you the wrong way. That wasn’t my intention, i just relayed what I learned but, like I said, I’ve heard similar stories from several nationalities. So, I did a few internet searches. @anonimity5, sorry to tell you this but everything I’m finding online backs up everything I’ve heard from everyone else.

This article for example, I found it at Wikipedia which isn’t always truthful calls it ”The Turkish invasion of Cypress.”

So I searched more.

This article is from an independent group called Tripsavvy who illustrates Cyprus, who was one under “British control” which is NOT Turkey, it’s European. It actually refers to the results of 1974 as "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" but is only recognized as legitimate by Turkey itself. It furthermore goes into specific detail of the raping and pillaging I referred to from the couple who was actually born and lived in Cypress, in the north.

I searched many articles and not one backed one you claim to be correct, in fact, they all back what I have heard from a lot of people except for you.

Turkey “invaded” Cypress in 1974 and “created” the Northern Cypress Republic of Turkey.

This article explains all about the Ottoman rule, how the Greeks refused to respect the forced rule and, throughout the entire article, regardless of opinions, it refers to Cypress as being “Greek territory” prior to 1821.