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I appologize, I thought the central powers lost the first world war. It was very nice of Turkey to give up all that territory, seeming as how they were victors, lol. Denial, it's not just a river in Egypt!
They confused the terms battle and war, get over it.
If it werent for Gallipoli then Turkey as a nation would probably not exist today as the allies would have marched on to Istanbul and basically taken over the country. West Turkey + Thrace (including Istanbul) would have been given to Greece. South Coast to Italy, South East to France, East + North to Armenia. At most you would have a small Turkish state centered in the middle of Anatolia around Ankara. That is why the Turks fought with such extreme bravery at Gallipoli. How would Muslims have been treated in these states. Do you actually know what Greece and the Balkan states did to the Muslims there? There is always this hoopla over a so called Armenian "genocide". How many Muslims were massacred all over the Balkans when they were left under Chrsitian rule? That would have been the fate of Anatolian Muslims had it not been for the victory at Gallipoli.
Denial, it's not just a river in Egypt!
How history gets forgotten....the founding of the new Turkish republic was the defeat of Islam in that region and birth of secularism. The damage Attaturk did to Islam in Turkey could not have been done by a worst enemy of Islam.
What damage? Ataturk saved the Turkish Muslims from being colonized by the European powers and their allies, modernized and developed the new nation-state, strengthened the Turkish nation, and got rid of an ineffective, puppet monarch, paving the way for Turkey to rise again.
Few examples:
he banned the fez, the traditional hat of the Turkish men, and required that they wear the European style hat. the Latin alphabet replaced the Arabic ones. the European calendars and metric system replaced the Islamic ones. woman were encourage to vote, work,and hold office. new laws made it illegal for woman to wear veils. All Mosques were under state control and whatever they teach had to be approved by the State. He came down hard on anybody complaining about this.
There is more, a lot more he did.....just read up on it.
I don't believe your sincerity for your comments and criticizes about Ataturk and Islam besides I don't think that you are number one Islam and Turk expert as an Armenian guy