Tag: Ottoman Empire
I don’t mean the people depicted in stone in the British Museum, with angular beards riding chariots surrounded by lions – although there is an interesting scholarly debate about whether these are their direct descendants – but the few thousand Christians scattered among a few dozen villages in the hills of Tur Abdin in south east Turkey, a stone’s throw from the Syrian border.
Though the U.S. and Israeli military have done a good job at stealing the show, and though they certainly believe themselves to be the head of the show, the reality is that this age of empire is distinctly British.
Tim Kirby discusses some possible consequences the Turks and the world could experience due to the Armenian genocide recognition by the United States.
Every targeted shooting of Christians in Syria perpetuates the vicious cycle of erosion of the Eastern Christian culture. Unless the world acts immediately, the followers of Jesus Christ move further down the path of becoming a memory.
