He was a gifted actor, May he relaxation in peace!
First of all, ethnicity shouldn’t be an id that an individual can select. An particular person can select faith and may abjure it too. An individual can deny his, her ethnic id, however the identical particular person can’t change it. Every ethnic constituent in Turkey is an integral a part of the Turkish Nation.
Rana Solakyan was not the primary non-Muslim one who hid his actual id and felt to cover himself. Probably many individuals and artists disguise their actual id like him, after all, there are additionally artists who don’t disguise or want to cover themselves. Not solely artists, but additionally there are such a lot of atypical non-Muslim residents who stay and work with their actual identities in each subject of life.
We don’t have the fitting to ask our non-Muslim residents why they really feel to cover their identities!
Nobody ought to make excuses by wanting left and proper. Anybody mustn’t disguise behind the justifications corresponding to “But in Greece, they treat the Turks of Western Thrace like this, the Armenians did not leave a single Turk in Armenia, Israel beats the Palestinians.” The non-Muslims I’m speaking about listed here are our personal residents. They all have the id of the Republic of Turkiye and the residents of the Republic of Turkey are equal throughout the legal guidelines no matter their ethnic origin and non secular faiths. Our non-Muslim residents come first earlier than the Turks, who’re the residents of the opposite international locations. The Republic of Turkiye is such a giant state that it can’t be lowered to 2 letters “T.C” in entrance of our names on social media and public establishments. The nice state handles the rights and issues to discover a answer with the authorities and governments of the international locations the cognates belong to, with diplomacy on the desk.
The Non-Muslims are the native individuals of Anatolia and Istanbul. Particularly the Rums, Armenian and Syriac individuals with the Jews, who’re the minorities of at present. If they see themselves because the “other” in Turkiye and to cover their identities for feeling higher, we must always blame ourselves and the governments we selected. The political powers have the accountability of the insurance policies they implement in violation of the Constitution, the grave errors they made over time.
We don’t have the fitting to ask the non-Muslims who lived the 1934 Thrace Pogrom, 1942 Varlik Vergisi “Wealth Tax” Disaster, the Istanbul Pogrom of 6–7 September 1955, the 1964 Greek Exile, why do you disguise your individual id. We don’t have any proper to ask, why do you employ a double title in accordance along with your faith and ethnicity! If they felt free like us, the Muslims, they’d not use double names. It shouldn’t be potential to heal the injuries of those painful occasions. Whenever we open our mouths to insult one another, we use the ethnic identities of non-Muslims to insult one another; ” you might be an Armenian, you’re a Jew, you’re a Greek, you’re a Byzantine bastard” fall from the mouths of many people.
I don’t wish to play to the viewers. To be frank, what Turkish Jews have any bond in citizenship with Israel? They are not directly or straight at all times being focused by their id Judaism by politicians and media in each Israeli-Palestinian battle. What may very well be pure aside from having ties from the center, ethnically and religiously each Jew has a heartfelt bond with Israel, and none of us can declare that it’s incorrect. Criticism of Israeli insurance policies can’t flip to our personal compatriots, the Jews, each are various things. The greatest trauma of the Turkish Jews skilled after the 1934 Thrace Incidents is undoubtedly the terrorist assaults on Neve Shalom Synagogue in 1986 and the Synagogues in 2003.
Our personal residents had been victims of terrorism of their locations of worship. Since 1986, Jews might haven’t freely been to their locations of worship, they go along with concern and hesitation each time they go.
Everyone ought to assume why do Turkish Jews stay fearfully due to pro- Palestinian terrorism? If we don’t really feel their ache, fear as our personal, we’ve a giant drawback because the residents in our mentality. I used to think about 1942 Varlik Vergisi “Wealth Tax” as an comprehensible apply attributable to World War II, if the tax was utilized to everybody equally and at an inexpensive price, no matter Muslim and non-Muslim and if the Askale Exiles weren’t.
The Non-Muslims made these fortunes with onerous work they usually at all times paid their taxes to the state. The software of Wealth Tax 1942 led to handover the fortune in a trauma that our Armenian, Greek and Jewish residents suffered nice ache in World War II, which we didn’t enter. In addition to those, there are non-Muslim residents who couldn’t afford to pay the tax and had been despatched to a labour camp in Askale, Erzurum, some misplaced their lives there. The Wealth Tax was a catastrophe for our non-Muslims.
The Istanbul Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955 is the best disgrace within the historical past of the Republic. Our personal residents dedicated looting and disgraceful crimes towards non-Muslims, particularly the Turkish Greeks, the Rums. The riot was an organized occasion, following the false news that stir-up the occasions: “A bomb was thrown at Ataturk’s house in Thessaloniki.” In reality, the bomb of hatred and looting thrown by those that attacked the streets with false news, fell on the fireplace of our non-Muslim residents in varied elements of the nation, particularly in Istanbul and Istiklal Street.
The results of the assaults and lootings, an Istanbul, nearly with out Greeks, even though their rights are assured within the Lausanne Treaty, which was signed in 1923. Along with the burned down locations of worship, workplaces, attacked residents and different disgraceful crimes, and Istanbul whose id and tradition have modified essentially, and the remainder of the Greeks in a single evening deported to Greece in 1964, the Greek Exile.
The Istanbulite Greeks, whose inhabitants is lower than a village, are combating for existence in Istanbul, their native homeland, their church buildings are used extra for funerals than marriage ceremonies, as a result of their numbers are lowering dramatically with the growing old of inhabitants. The training of clergymen within the Heybeliada Seminary, was underneath the assure of Lausanne Peace Treaty from 1923 to 1971, however we found(!) following the twelfth of March 1971 Military Coup, the seminary was towards the Treaty of Lausanne and our structure!
In a rustic, everybody ought to apply their faith freely, ought to practice their clergy freely, however we ignore our signature and obligation. A really massive majority who towards the navy coup supported the choice on Heybeliada Seminary. Today, the Turkish Greek Orthodox clergy are educated in Greece, some Greek citizen clergy grow to be Turkish residents attributable to Turkish Greeks inhabitants’s lower.
Let the readers reply; would the clergymen educated in accordance with the Greek curriculum or the clergy educated within the Heybeliada Seminary School be in favour of the Republic of Turkiye?
May God give him a protracted life, after the current Patriarch Bartholomew, the brand new patriarch will be somebody who educated in Greece.
First of all, the Fener Greek Patriarchate is an establishment belonging to the Republic of Turkiye, the Patriarch and the clergy working within the church buildings are residents of the Republic of Turkiye. Dr. Sadik Ahmet was a notable politician of the Western Thracian Turks, who misplaced his life in a site visitors accident in Greece that left many questions behind. The road in entrance of the Patriarchate is called as Dr. Sadik Ahmet. Before Sadik Ahmet, the road was given the title of Grand Vizier Benderli Ali Pasha, who hanged Patriarch Gregorius V as a result of he had written a letter to the Russian Tsar in help of the 1821 Greek revolts.
Ahmet Cevdet Pasha asserted in his work, “Tarih-i Cevdete”, Sultan Mahmut II thought that the execution of the patriarch was unfair. Sultan Mahmut despatched Ali Pasha to exile and simply eight days after the Patriarch Gregorius V’s execution on April 30, 1821 Ali Pasha was executed in Cyprus. The Greek rebellion gained much more momentum on account of the patriarch execution.
Today, there are a handful of remaining Greek residents in Turkiye. What is the which means of message or is it an intimidation given by the title of Sadik Ahmet to our residents due to the issues between Turkiye and Greece? Whatever the which means of the message is, this doesn’t swimsuit the Republic of Turkiye. Give that road the names of Ottoman Greeks who earned the respect of each Turks and Greeks corresponding to Marko Pasha, Kostaki Antopulos Pasha, Patriarch Gennadios II, who was the primary patriarch underneath Turkish rule, whom Mehmet the Conqueror additionally revered. Give the title of Sadik Ahmet to the massive streets, or if you’re going to ship a message to Greece, give his title to the border gate with Greece!
Our Syriac residents even have the identical drawback as the Greeks have in coaching their clergymen, they must go to Syria to coach clergy there. Every Turkish citizen ought to ask themselves, is the fashionable Republic of Turkiye behind Syria by way of human rights and non secular freedoms, why are our Syriac residents coaching their clergymen in Syria?
The faith of the state is justice and justice needs to be for everybody, the Republic of Turkiye is secular and needs to be at an equal distance from everybody.
I’m not going to argue on this writing the 1915 Armenian Deportation, which was taken underneath the circumstances of World War I. This concern, which was settled with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and the Malta Tribunal of 1919-1921. This concern up to now ought to have prevented from getting used as a weapon towards Turkiye at present. Leaving all this apart, Armenia was the primary state to acknowledge the Turkish Grand National Assembly Government, particularly the Republic of Turkiye, with the Gyumri Agreement signed on 3 December 1921. It shouldn’t be potential for Armenia to behave independently of the Diaspora Armenians, who’re youngsters of former Ottoman residents in France, America and Lebanon, and who’ve opened a life area for them by positioning themselves towards Turkiye, however Turkiye’s pleasant hand needs to be prolonged for peace to this nation. Turkiye is the nation most well-liked by the individuals of Armenia for business and commerce. Armenia is sort of a toy within the arms of Diaspora Armenians, and hundreds of the Armenians stay and work in Istanbul. The border, which was closed to Armenia with the occupation of Karabakh belonging to Azerbaijan within the early Nineties, ought to now be opened with the liberation of Azerbaijan’s lands from occupation, the embargo that has been pierced over Georgia because the starting ought to now be lifted. The bitterness and resentment of the Armenians of Armenia and the Armenian residents of Turkiye, the biggest non-Muslim inhabitants in Turkiye, needs to be relieved.
The matter is lengthy, and it will get longer as I write. If a non-Muslim Turkish citizen struggles to exist by hiding his faith, id and title, because the late actor Rana Cabbar did on this approach, we’re each accountable and responsible for his or her difficulties.
Metin Yilmaz – TR Daily News
Source: www.nationalturk.com
