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  • #11
    Re: Turkey Carved Up

    Originally posted by Eddo211 View Post
    Turkey Carved Up:

    Man Turks are absolutely paranoid of this.....this is why most of the land is owned by the State now. In fact the Germans and the Brits owned a lot of land (practically provinces) in Ottoman which was one of the reason why Turkey went against the Allies in WWI.
    The issue of foreign purchases of real estate is associated with very bitter reminiscences in Turkey. During the weakening phase of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century and the global dominance of western colonialism, purchases without constraint and effective surveillance of real estate by the nationals and companies of western powers was one of the issues on which the Ottoman state had been subjected to the direst foreign pressures.

    As a consequence of these pressures, the The Ottoman Land Code of 1858 was passed. A 1858 firman on "Reform" had announced a grant of permission in this respect, but the necessary legal arrangements had been delayed till 1868. With the enactment of the 1868 regulation, according to one estimate, British capitalist-farmers (see Levantine mansions of İzmir) had almost immediately emerged as having acquired one third of all arable lands in the entire vilayet of İzmir (Aydın in name), possibly held in an indirect manner till then, and by 1878, the majority of the arable land in the same province. This trend coincided with the influx of refugees from lands lost for the Ottoman Empire, and the migrants often saw themselves having to buy property from foreigners in their own country.[3] A further law in 1913 also allowed foreign legal entities (companies, foundations etc.) to purchase property in Ottoman lands, with decisive effects for the early foundations of the state of Israel.

    A partial face-about by the Committee of Union and Progress, simultaneous to the outbreak of the World War I in Europe, was one of the causes for the deterioration of relations between Turkey and the Allied powers Britain, France and Italy. The Treaty of Lausanne which established modern Turkey laid a ground based on a strict understanding of reciprocity in the matter, on a bilateral and contractual bases as concluded with individual countries at first, and full legal reciprocity after 1934.
    Land ownership in Turkey - Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_in_Turkey
    B0zkurt Hunter

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    • #12
      Re: Turkey Carved Up

      Isn't it interesting while these laws in 1913 were created in the Ottoman Empire, the Federal Reserve was created in order to rob Americans of their land in the American Empire....
      "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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      • #13
        Re: Turkey Carved Up

        Originally posted by Davo88 View Post
        If that's some sort of historical map, putting the name of "Kurdistan" is an anachronism, a mistake. Other than that, well, Turks shouldn't enforce their distortion of history everywhere...
        perhaps they're going off the "treaty of sevres" which suggested a possible area of turkey for a kurdish land



        I get why they didn't show Thrace and Smyrna as part of Greece since they have their own territorial disputes with them, but I wonder why the map didn't show hatay/alexandretta/iskanderun as part of syria

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        • #14
          Re: Turkey Carved Up

          Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
          Modern Turkey’s territory divided between Armenia and Kurdistan in Kosovo textbooks
          February 28, 2011 - 15:11 AMT 11:11 GMT

          PanARMENIAN.Net - Kosovo Turks are outraged by the fact that Kosovo textbooks represent the north-eastern part of the modern Turkey as an Armenian territory, while the south-eastern part is marked out as Kurdistan.

          As Dogan Turkish news agency reported, the textbooks on history and geography contain information presenting the Turkish nation in negative light.

          “We received the textbooks from an Italian or American organization and took immediate steps to withdraw them form use. We were shocked to find out that some of those textbooks are still in use at Kosovo schools,” the coordinator of Turkic-language education at Prizren city municipality, Orhan Volkan stated.

          http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/world/news/62760/

          Video here:
          http://news.am/eng/news/49517.html
          Turkey thinks that if it pays for the educators (which you can bet it does for the "coordinator of Turkic-language education at Prizren") it decides what is true or not. In Turkey those sort of attitudes mean that educational standards in Turkey are at such a low level that nobody wants to send their children to state-run schools or universities.

          However "Kosovars" don't need much of an education, all they need is to learn how to cross the border into the EU.

          The map - which is a geographical map with the names of geographical regions (with a few modern place names added for clarity) - is surprisingly accurate: one of the few I've seen that correctly place Anatolia as west of the Kizilirmak river. its creators deserve a commendation.
          Plenipotentiary meow!

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