> Tell me about an empire who conquered and held conquered land through asking politely. If you are able to come up with any This is not what it's about. It's

> Tell me about an empire who conquered and held conquered land through asking politely. If you are able to come up with any This is not what it's about. It's not about the Turks being evil and Bulgarians et al being angels. It's about the fact that Turks refuse to accept responsibility. Let me give you an example. I'm Romanian. There are many uneducated folks you'll meet in Romania who deny we killed hundreds of thousands of Jews in WW2. But no serious politician, historian, public figure, or educated person denies that. The same is not true in Turkey. Pretty much everyone denies the Armenian Genocide. All of us have shameful periods in our history, but some of us at least have the decency to not deny it. But, of course, how could you see the genocide as evil when you can't even come to grips with the older Devshirme, a practice where boys were abducted, mutilated (circumcision), forced converted to Islam, executed if they were found praying to Jesus, and trained to fight and kill their own countrymen.