Yeah it can't be busiest with only cargo and general aviation. Atatürk airport closed for commercial flights more than a year before the museum was changed back to mosque.
it hurts... "Before WWI, about 25% of people from Istanbul spoke this language. Today, it is 0%." they committed genocide. they stole our city. it really hurts bros
No my friend. The Empire was heterogeneous before the war and people lived everywhere. There were Turks living in Greece and Greeks in Anatolia. After the treaty of Sèvres, because Greece was occupying parts of Anatolia and fighting the resistance movement during the war of independence, it was agreed, after Turkey won, that each side take home their nationals and both parts became ethnically homogeneous, Modern Turkey hosting only Turks and Greece only Greeks. It was a war not a genocide. The winner dictates the terms.
Judge for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_fire_of_Smyrna ("scholars claim Turkish soldiers setting fire to Greek and Armenian homes and businesses, while pro-Turkish sources hold that the Greeks and Armenians burned their own houses to tarnish the Turks' reputation")
I guess everyone knows better than the people who lived and continue to live there..... Also, you should actually go to Buyuk Ada and all sorts of other places to see if this stat is true.
Hmm.. Head of the Orthodox Church is in Istanbul, but no one speaks Greek? Also, my relatives do too.....
My understanding is that it was a bit of both. There were population transfers (in some cases forcible, I might add), but it would be a lie to say that no one was murdered for being Greek. No one alive today can reasonably be held responsible for the transfers or the killings, but it would be denialism to say that those were just ordinary, entirely voluntary population transfers.
That's actually not true. Greeks were allowed to stay in Istanbul, but most left after the events of the Istanbul Pogrom in 1955 which is classified somewhat as genocide. And none of it was justified.
Lol there are more than 150k-200k Turks living in Western Thrace, because it was exempted from the terms you mention, as was Istanbul, Eastern Thrace, Imbros and Tenedos (or whatever you call them in turkish). The Greeks living in Turkey after the population exchange were subject to the Varlık Vergisi as well as pogroms executed on them by turkish mobs after the Turks deliberately placing a bomb on Ataturk's house in Thessaloniki and blaming it on Greeks, even though it was later revealed to be an act of Turkish agents. Turkey still oppresses Kurds, denies the Armenian Genocide and has a fascist leader. You know nothing about history.
My Mom was a child in Constantinople when her family was separated and forcibly removed from their home and business due to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1925. Fortunately they made it to the US alive. I've been to visit Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Phanar. He and the Orthodox Church continue to be under siege there. All their property has been confiscated except for a few buildings and their only seminary in Turkey on the Princess Islands has been shut down by the government. It a big deal since the Turkish government has decreed that the Patriarch must be Turkish born and educated. Now that there is no one left and no seminary there is nobody able to be to be the next Patriarch under Turkish law. Given the decision on Agia Sofia and Erdogan's fundamentalist nationalism, its only going to get worse.
The decision to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque is very upsetting :( I've always wanted to go to Turkey and see it. Honestly, I'm not sure what the point of doing that was. I've read that it's largely due to Erdogan's push for religious nationalism, but it also seems like a poor move not just for the many people who want to see it but also for the Turkish economy since I'm guessing they get tons of tourism from it.
Personally I'd rather it had stayed a museum as well, because for me it symbolised the long history of the city itself, but you can still visit it. Presumably you'd need to dress conservatively (same as many churches in Europe, it must be said) & cover your hair if you're female, but Turks are very welcoming towards visitors wanting to enter mosques. I've been to several mosques in Turkey myself & have always felt very welcome. It's a stupendously beautiful building - go & see it!
As you should; it is derived from the Greek word Βόσπορος which is written with a P(π) not a Ph/F(φ). Πόρος means path; I assume he confused the second part of the word with that of Phosphorus (φως + φόρος) which means “that which brings (φόρος) light (φως) and is spelled with the equivalent of Ph/F in Greek (φ). So, I doubt that it’s the actual spelling in English it’s probably just an error
For the mosque question--on a whim--I just decided to start with colors. After black, white, and red, I was about to abandon that strategy. I gave myself one more guess, and got blue. Crazy.
Hmm.. Head of the Orthodox Church is in Istanbul, but no one speaks Greek? Also, my relatives do too.....
(Unless you already do and I misspelled "Thracian" in my haste.)