Erdogan builds LARGEST 3D stage to reenact how Ottomans CRUSHED the Christian Roman Empire

Over the weekend Turkey celebrated the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople that happened during the year 1453. They estimated that one million people attended this big event in Istanbul. This celebration included the world’s largest 3D mapping stage ever built to display the reenactment of this Ottoman conquest:

 
Before the reenactment, around one million Turkish citizens got to hear the words of their de facto Sultan of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who apparently gave a rousing speech judging by the crowd.

Just as it did last year, the main banner, which you can see below etched in Turkish, announced this for all to see:

“Resurrection Again, Rising Again”

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This resurrection of the Ottoman Empire isn’t new to you, as we reported on this last year. Just to remind you though, here is a short summary of what Erdogan is celebrating:

In the historiography of the world, May 29, 1453 is marked as the end of the Roman Empire, which, according to some historians, was the longest serving empire in history, ruling for a total of 1,058 years. For some, the Roman Empire ended when Constantinople was established as a rival capital with the death of Emperor Theodosius in the year 395. The Roman Empire in the East, which later became known as the Byzantine Empire or simply as the Eastern Roman Empire, ceased to exist on May 29, 1453, when the Ottoman Turks, led by the young Sultan Mehmet II, stormed the city and captured it after a long siege.

Constantinople, later named Istanbul, served as the capital of the Ottoman Empire until its demise.

This last part is interesting to me and why this celebration is so troubling. Erdogan is trying to whitewash history with Ottoman propaganda.

There is no disputing the Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453 and the city then took the name it has now, Istanbul. But the story doesn’t end there. The Ottoman Empire eventually fell and at the end of WWI, the Ottomans gave Istanbul to the Allied Powers in 1918. This ended WWI. Allied troops, consisting of British, French, and Italian forces, then occupied Istanbul for the next 5 years.

During this 5 year occupation, Greece decided to take the territorial gains that were promised it by British Prime Minister, but that didn’t work out so well as the Turkish National Movement, led at least in part by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, fought them off and made them leave the country.

At the end of the 5 years, a new treaty was signed and Istanbul was returned to the new Republic of Turkey, established by the new Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

So to put it another way:

How are we to forget that this beautiful city, conquered by the Ottomans, was handed to the British by the last Ottomans with their own hands?

Let’s assume we have forgotten it… How then can we not recall that this city, given away by the hands of the last Ottomans, was given back to us as a present by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the war of liberation?

If this country has its own free homeland and a national flag…

If you can hold a huge celebration in this city…

We know that we owe it much more to Atatürk, his brothers in arms, the children of the people who died in Anatolia and a handful of intellectuals who left their schools and ran to the frontlines to die, rather than this grandiose show.

In other words, the very city that Erdogan stands in to celebrate this Ottoman conquest, to proclaim the Ottoman Empire is “resurrecting again, rising again” — well it would not even be possible had it not been for Atatürk retaking the city in 1923.

So instead of celebrating Atatürk for returning Istanbul to the country, Erdogan would rather skip over all of that and go back to 1453.

Erdogan is raising a new Ottoman generation and this Ottoman conquest is what he wants them to focus on, not Atatürk. No, Erdogan hates Atatürk for abolishing the Ottoman Sultanate in 1922 and making sure Ottomans didn’t have a place in the new secular Turkey.

 
And this is how bad it’s gotten in Turkey. A Turkish director on Sunday, during the big Ottoman celebration, tweeted this:

“You don’t know that it was Mustafa Kemal [the Turkish Republic’s founding father] who actually saved Istanbul, which your Ottoman ancestors delivered to the crusaders while begging,” wrote Altıoklar on his Twitter account, likening those celebrating the conquest to “cancer.”

This Turkish director is now being investigated by the Turkish police for insulting Erdogan!

But that’s not all. A Turkish professor has been suspended from his job for a tweet he made against the much celebrated Ottoman conquest:

A professor at Adnan Menderes University in Aydın province was suspended after posting a tweet, in which he criticized the Ottoman conquest of İstanbul in 1453.

Professor Erbay Bardakçıoğlu’s tweet on May 29 read, “Today is the anniversary of the invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire’s, which was a great civilization, capital Constantinople by a barbaric and fanatic tribe.”

You can’t even criticize historic events or celebrations without feeling the long hand of the fascist Sultan Erdogan.

I know some of you think this new Ottoman Turkey rising again isn’t a big deal. But remember, we fought a World War to stop these Islamist barbarians and we’re going to need to do it again one day when they invade Jerusalem (Ezekiel 38-39).


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