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Germany’s strategic blunders in its relationship with #Russia are currently hurting all of Europe. We take a look at the parallel relationship between #Germany and #Turkey and the real risks this poses for the West. A thread by #theHELC #NoSubsForTurkey 1/17 
The German / Turkish relationship dates from before #WWI, when the #YoungTurks turned to Germany as the most plausible international ally for their decomposing Empire. A secret treaty between the two powers was concluded on August 2, 1914 2/17
The German #Kaiser #WilhelmII visited the #OttomanEmpire three times in total, pledging to the Sultan and the '300 million Mohammedans scattered over the globe and revering in him their caliph, that the German Emperor will be and remain at all times their friend' 3/17
The drill ship #AbdulHamidHan, #Erdogan’s latest vanity project in a country where 15 million people suffer from hunger, was launched yesterday. But who was #AbdulHamid after whom the vessel was named? A thread on the #BloodySultan and the #HamidianMassacres by #theHELC 1/12
Abdul Hamid II was Sultan of the #Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1909. During his reign, unrest amongst his oppressed subjects in the #Balkans and Asia Minor intensified. His barbaric response would culminate in the massacres of #Armenians and #Assyrians of 1894–1896 2/12
1/4 An extreme rare and widely unknown event of #humanity during the #SmyrnaHolocaust. In #Smyrna, now #Izmir the #Greek and #Armenian #Christian residents were forced to the docks to escape, many though met their deaths, the #Japanese ship Tokei Maru was one of the first to help
2/4 At the time, some Allied warships were in the harbor, along with many merchant ships. But most of them refused to pick up refugees. Amidst all the chaos, a #Japanese freighter was reported to have unloaded all its precious cargo to take on as many refugees as it could
3/4Tokei Maru rescued many #Greeks and #Armenians in the face of Chaos, loss of cargo and reported threats. The bravery of the Tokei Maru and her crew is to be admired, an act of #humanityoverhatred. Smyrna was almost completely burned and it's #Christians exiled and exterminated
1/6 Nureddin Pasha was a Turkish military officer during the First World War. He took part in both the #Greek and #Armenian Genocides. He was directly responsible for ordering the deportation of Greeks from Pontos, Ionia, and southern Anatolia.He also oversaw the Smyrna massacres
2/6 His brutality was noticed even by the Turks, The Grand National assembly decided to send Nureddin Pasha to a commission of enquiry and to put him on trial, twice. Mustafa Kemal intervened twice on his behalf, he then appointed him Military Governor of #Smyrna (Gavur Izmir)
3/6 In #Smyrna, Nureddin Pasha summoned the Greek archbishop #Chrysostomos of Smyrna and accused him of treason. Nureddin Pasha pushed him out of the residence and invited and incited a Turkish mob to deal with him. He was #lynched to death while a french observer documented it.
THREAD: Today we commemorate the Greek Genocide victims of Pontus, killed by Ottoman & Kemalist forces. 1 million Greeks were massacred - 353,000 of them from Pontus alone.
We will never forget even if Turkey continues to deny it.
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
We will never forget even if Turkey continues to deny it.
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
1) Mustafa Kemal, Turkey's founding father, said on 13 August 1923 in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Turkiye Buyuk Millet Meclisi) in Ankara, that:
"At last we've uprooted the Greeks..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
"At last we've uprooted the Greeks..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
2) On 26 November 1916 Rafet Bey (or Paşa) informs Dr. Ernst von Kwiatkowski, the Austro-Hungarian consul in Samsoun in Pontus:
"We must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the Armenians..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
"We must at last do with the Greeks as we did with the Armenians..."
#PontosSoykırımıAnmaGünü
#GreekGenocide
