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During the population exchange My mother in law’s Turkish family were forced to walk to Istanbul from their village in Makedonya with nothing but the gold coins
by belatw 5y ago
During the population exchange My mother in law’s Turkish family were forced to walk to Istanbul from their village in Makedonya with nothing but the gold coins they had sewn into their blankets and hid into their shoes. 1/4 of them were killed by Greeks. The same story with my father in law coming from northern Bulgaria.
Nobody brings this up, because it was Christians killing Muslims.
Still the Armenians remained and thrived in Western Türkiye. My neighborhood in Besiktas is 1/3 Armenian and 1/3 Kurd to this day.
- alehander42 5y agoCan you tell me more about macedonia/bulgarian turks stories: I am a bulgarian and I want to see how the truth, and to see how turkish history sees the events
- Gimpei 5y agoI think that's fair. There were definitely purges of Turkish and other European Muslims at the time, and they should be acknowledged. On a related note, I have a friend who is Serbian and he claims there were Bosnian atrocities against Serbs during the civil war that nobody hears about. Still, I would point out that, just as in the Bosnian war, the scale of atrocities was a lot worse on the side that is more remembered. Over a million Armenians and other minorities were systematically raped, murdered, and purged at the behest of Ottoman authorities. It's unclear to me why Turkey does not want to acknowledge this. You can still appreciate your country while recognizing that people in the past did some pretty bad things. The world is a complicated place.