Erdogan: Operation against Gaza is a massacre ??

Turkish civilians and soldiers watching their Armenians victims

Severe speech facing the Turkish Parliament, Turkish Prime M. Erdogan Valid the Israeli operation against Gaza rally, called an international intervention. "Israel can not clean the blood on her hands by using excuses

Dead Armenian heads, shown in Turkey

Armenian intellectuals hanging in the main square

Armenian intellectuals hanging in the main square

Erdogan: Operation against Gaza is a massacre???

Erdogan: Operation against Gaza is a massacre ??

Mother and son starving

Armenian corpses of children who died of starvation

Naked and starving Armenian orphan standing at the ruins of his house

Mother and son watching another son, died

Erdogan: Operation against Gaza is a massacre ??

Is it blurring facts of the massacre by Turks

Armenian deportees from their country

Refugees of the Armenian massacre

Refugees of the Armenian massacre

Passover Eve, 1917 The commander of the Turkish Front ordered divorced all residents of Jaffa and Tel - Aviv
Deportees had difficulty dealing with the harsh conditions. Many did not last and died from exhaustion, disease and dysentery, typhoid cholera. Over 1500 men, women and children perished during the deportation of 18 months

Jewish deportees from Tel Aviv, 1917. Photo: Beno Rotanberge

Kurds are a minority, which constitutes about 20% of Turkey's population, who aspire to self-determination and independence. They rebelled at 1925. Turkish government brutally suppressed the rebellion

The next revolt broke in - 1938 / 9 also brutally suppressed, using the deadly gas, which killed thousands of Kurds

Midst of World War Two, 770 Jews immigrants were on the rickety ship "Struma", Flee from fascist Romania, hoping to get passports in Istanbul, through which they could enter Palestine. The passengers were left at Istanbul quarantined and forbidden to get off the ship (but eight of them). The immigrants were left on board, the supply received from the Jewish community in Istanbul, until supplies ran out. Inside the ship under sub - terms and dysentery disease broke out and passengers suffered from the cold, crowding, filth and starvation. Finally, the Turks decided to get rid of the "problem." On the night of February 23, 1942 Struma was dragged with a broken engine and broken anchor, by the Turkish ship to sea, out of Turkish territorial waters, where passengers were abandoned without food and water, hundreds of people crowded on board. Later the ship was sunk, apparently by a Russian submarine, and all illegal immigrants (except for one survivor) Plunged to death

The Turkish invasion against Cyprus caused 6,000 people killed

Mustafa Kemal Ata Turk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic, the largest known figure of the 20th century As president for 15 years until his death in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk encouraged a wide range of changes and reforms: political, social, economic and cultural.

Atatrk's legacy is still evident in the Turkish army, which sees itself as the guardian of secular Turkish nationalism.

Armenian boy died, the Armenian massacres in 1915