1) Terrorist apologist justify the attacks on France because of its 132 years of colonizing Algeria.
Greeks were colonized by Turks for 400-500 years, experienced a genocide (1914-23) with a million exterminated & a pogrom (1955) that expelled 120,000 Greeks from Constantinople.
2) This is not to minimize the Algerian experience of brutal French colonization but to highlight it's not a justification why "Muslims have a right to be angry & kill millions of French people,” as the former Malaysian PM said.
Does he support Greeks killing millions of Turks?
3) Now of course I do not support Greeks having a "right" to kill millions of Turks for the crimes of their ancestors like that idiot former Malaysian PM believes.
But terrorist apologists who use any attempt to justify terrorism in France open up an ugly pandora's box.
4) But these terrorist attacks should open debate and re-thinking of European policies and ideologies.
For 1000's of years Greeks were the frontline of Eastern invasions towards Europe but the West has always put a knife in our back.
I won't give countless historical examples.
5) Even as recently as 2016/16 with the Turkish-orchestrated migrant invasion of Europe, all you "woke" and liberal Western Europeans wanted to paint us Greeks as reactionary backward fascists for wanting to protect our borders from undocumented illegal immigrants.
6) Even to this day "woke" and liberal Swedes, Germans, Dutch etc denounce Greece for its "pushbacks" of illegal immigrants.
German NGO's are even attempting to sue Greece for its "pushbacks" of illegal immigrants.
7) Most of this Western European perversion comes from their own historical guilts of genocide & persecution, but they attempt to project this onto front line European states like Greece, who have the historical memories of being genocide victims, not the perpetrators of it
8) Greeks have a strong and long historical memory of these types of people who are committing terrorist attacks in Western Europe. More then a thousand years of it in fact. Because of our historical memory and not allowing these terrorists in, the woke West wanted to denounce us
9) The only difference now is that in 2015/16, Greece was crippled by Germany's looting of our country undercover of "necessary austerity". The West never knew how much of a service the Greeks have given them for over a thousand years by being front line peoples against barbarism
10) The West wanted to put the knife in our back during the financial crisis, just as they did throughout their history towards the Greeks, and then millions of undocumented people flooded into Europe.
Now the West is paying the consequences of it.
11) However, Western Europeans did not only want to project their wokeness onto frontline Greece, but also export it outside of Europe into Syria.
Your efforts to remove the "brutal" Assad in favor of Al-Qaeda sympathizers sees its results with terrorism in France, Germany etc.
12) Terrorist attacks in Europe must incorporate a domestic and a foreign response.
Stop putting knives in the backs of Greeks, stop trying to forcibly export Western Liberalism into the East, stop appeasing terrorist supporters like Erdogan and open relations with Syria again.
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Today is Oxi (No) Day where we mythologize Metaxas saying NO to Mussolini's demands that Greece capitulates and becomes an Italian vassal.
Not only were the Italians thrown back into Albania from where they invaded, but the course of World War 2 changed because of Greek heroes.
My grandfather Nikos Papathanasiou from Skoteini village in Argolis was 16 years old when the Italians attempted to invade Greece.
He stole his brothers ID card to show he was of legal fighting age.
During the war and resistance period, he was shot 4x on 3 different occasions.
On reflecting how the Greeks fought against the Italian invasion attempt in World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said "Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks."
When will Turks realize that Erdogan's bravado against Greece is to distract them from the bad economic situation.
While Turkish ships waste fuel in the Aegean attempting to do impossible seismic survey's, Greeks continue to drink frappe on the islands and watch the lira tumble.
Erdogan is making Turkey go backwards but Turks are foolish enough to be distracted with hostilities against Greece ahvalnews.com/unemployment/t…)%20reported%20on%20its%20website.
Turkish economist Mahfi Egilmez says an unemployment rate of 24.6% is “the closest to reality," and not the official rate of 12.9%.
BUT QUICK, LOOK AT US ATTEMPT TO STEAL GREEK GAS DEPOSITS, LOOK HOW BIG AND STRONG TURKEY IS NOW!
7 Turkish warships are accompanying the Oruç Reis research vessel into Greece’s Exclusive Economic Zone. No word just yet on how exactly Greece will respond to this provocation.
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.
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:
THREAD: On this day in 1955, The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) began an armed campaign to end British colonial rule and unify Cyprus and Greece.
Georgios Grivas, with only 300 fighters, won Cyprus' Independence from the British.
1) On 1 April, EOKA launched simultaneous attacks against various British or British-linked facilities in Nicosia, Larnaca, Limassol and Famagusta - radio stations, courts, police stations, military camps, and colonial administrators homes.
2) The most glorious battle for EOKA was the Battle of Spilia, fought on 12 December 1955 when 12 Greeks took on 700 British soldiers in the Troodos mountains and won.
The British Army attempted to encircle the headquarters of EOKA . But it did not work out that way. Instead...
1) The most prominent independence hero is Theodoros Kolokotronis . He was born a klepht, a mountain bandit, and his father was killed in another revolt against the Turks 50 years before the success of the Greek War of Independence. He won many battles with inferior numbers.
2) Nikitaras "the Turk-eater" was the nephew of Kolokotronis. He got the nickname "Turk-eater" after the Battle of Dervenakia where he killed so many Turks he used a total of five swords because four broke. The swords he used were mostly from his dead enemies.