Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "A Day In History" channel.

Turkish nationalists haven't flooded your comment section yet. I was watching a video the other day about how Turkey has become the problem member of NATO and in the comment section was a bunch of Turks denying the genocides. I'd love to see how they react when you make one about the genocide of the Greek minorities.
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@bittersweetmadam So the videos I saw on liveleak of Turkish soldiers executing kurdish women on a mountain were fake?
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@GuvenALTN Armenia has a 3 million population as of now. The Turks killed around 1.5 million from 1895-1920. It's most likely that the majority of the Armenians living today had multiple of their relatives killed and many even direct relatives (greatgrandparents etc).
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@hawk-eye654 Absolute garbage. Read of the Devshirme. It was a practice solely to bring children to be trained in the Janissaries. Yes, not all janissaries were victims of the Devshirme but a lot of them were.
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The Kurds helped the Ottomans with their genocides and most Kurds have assimilated and been turkified. The Kurds in East Turkey are no facing the same fate that they sprung upon the Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks of East Turkey.
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There are plenty of Balkan Turks or otherwise called turkified Balkan people in the Balkans. Bulgaria has many, Greece has a hundred thousand, Bosnians are a few million and so are Albanians.
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The issue with modern Turks is their pride for their grandfathers deeds. Even if it's the 10-20% that are ultranationalist, the rest 70-80% is ignorant and rejects the genocides and atrocities of their ancestors. Had this happened today, those 10-20% would do these genocides all over again and those 70-80% would standby and watch/support them.
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@pyrusheliosmk2204 Constantinople wasn't a name change. The city was founded as Constantinople on top of the village of Byzantium. There was no city before, just a village. In contrast, nothing changed between 1929 and 1930 in the city of Constantinople besides the name change to signify the total extermination of 4000 year Greek presence in Anatolia.
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In contrast to Turkey. The colonizers didn't commit systematic genocide. 95% of native casualties happened by diseases not executions. And the rest died in wars where the colonizers also had substantial losses. On top of that, if we're talking about the USA. Nowadays, more natives live in the Us that they did prior to European colonization.
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@emre_iris "According to Britannica prior to 1915 and Samuel Cox, American Embassy in Istanbul from 1880-1886, it was 1.75 million and 2.4 million, respectively." That's in the 1880s. The genocide also didn't happen in just 1 year. It happened over the span of 25 years, so it makes total mathematical sense for 1.5 million Armenians to have been killed throughout that time.
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