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2022-05-11 11:00:05 IMPORTANT

Turkish newspaper: Turks have opened a nightclub inside the Ancient Greek temple of Athena in Attaleia (Antalya)
>https://archive.ph/14Kv8
>https://archive.ph/QHQbb

Turkish businessmen opened a nightclub next to the Temple of Athena in Attaleia. It was built on private property, but they used the historic ruins as the entrance

The bar, named "Apollo" opened on 02/05/2022. According to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, the wooden railings that had been installed to protect the temple, which dates back to 150 AD, were removed the day before the inauguration

The areas visited by locals and tourists were closed with metal plates, while at the entrance, a red carpet was laid, so that customers would not have difficulty walking on the dirt with the ruins. Also, in front of the old door, a metal detector was placed and a reception built

Tourists report being denied entry by security after they tried to enter thinking it was a museum

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2022-05-11 09:01:44 Greek Government: "Illegal immigrants in camps have decreased by 70.5% since 2019"
>https://archive.ph/MqPlJ

The article cites numbers of illegal immigrants entering Greece in 2015 (874,735), 2019 (92,838) and says that today there are only 27,396 illegal immigrants in camps. Neither the article nor the government specify what happened to the illegals who left the camp, so it is important to point out that there are two ways of officially leaving the camps.
1) Getting the Asylum visa
2) Getting deported

Given the current political structure in Greece and its government, its far more likely that the illegal immigrants who left the camps did not leave Greece at all and instead received their visas, from there, many left for Germany or other European countries but many still stayed in the country

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2022-04-27 08:00:10 The day after the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the genocide monument in Brussels was desecrated by gray wolves. They painted three red crescent moons on the khachkar, and left the inscription “fuck Paylan".

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2022-04-25 16:30:38 Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo summoned the Turkish Ambassador to Uruguay to Palacio Santos after the gestures that his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Chavuolu made to the Armenian community of Uruguay.

“Uruguay cannot accept threats and provocations of this kind,” said the head of the Armenian Committee of Uruguay (Colectividad Armenia del Uruguay) Ari Chamlian.

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2022-04-25 15:00:56 Turkish Foreign Minister smiles as he provokes Armenian protesters in Uruguay making the Turkish gray wolves sign
>https://archive.is/AYmtv

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was confronted by Armenian protesters during a visit to Uruguay

The Turkish minister's visit to Uruguay was one day before the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Turks/Ottomans. His Turkish secretaries and security personnel clapped in support

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2022-04-25 13:01:57 Georgios Karaiskakis' (Greek General during the Greek Revolution), answer to Mehmet Resit Pasha asking him to surrender. Held at the Museum of Art and Technology of Epirus. The translation of the letter:

Keratsini 20 April 1827

To Mehmet Resit Pasha

From Athens,

"Fuck you and your faith and Mohamed. What did you think, you cuckolds.. you should be ashamed to ask us sign a treaty with such a shitty Sultan Mahmud. I shit on him and your vezir and that Jew silihtar Boda, the whore. If I survive I will fuck you up. If I die, you can fart on my nuts." *

General
Georgios Karaiskakis

*(Greek idiom that means I don't care)

Note: His vocabulary is obscene. It was however the language the Greek revolutionaries used on a daily basis in the first 25 years of the 19th century, in a poor but also revolutionary Greece.

This letter shows the way of thinking of a genuine representative of the generation of Greek revolutionaries of 1821, but also the anti-Turkish sentiment at the time. Open / Comment

2022-04-25 11:01:45 IMPORTANT

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu talked about how Turkey acted while the world was busy worrying about the pandemic
>https://archive.is/gBR3O

"Do you know what we did when we could not find ourselves because of the pandemic? If there is gas in the eastern Mediterranean, we have made claims on its ownership, as well as taken steps to be able to show the world our power, without fear of anyone" he said.

Soylu is considered Erdogan's right arm and was at one point seen as the man who could take his place

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The eternal Turk

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2022-04-25 09:10:01 IMPORTANT

More images from Hagia Sofia show more vandalism, neglect, trash laying around and layers of dust
>https://archive.is/FI2JK
>https://archive.is/8umbb

After posts on social media exposed vandalism in Hagia Sofia's imperial gate (previous post here), more images have surfaced showing the lack of care by Turkish authorities

The images prompted reactions from the Greek government although those will not lead to any sort of action from Turkey's part

Turkish authorities have stated that the damage was caused by "normal wear" and others question Turkey's ability to restore the gate citing examples of poor workmanship with modern materials such as plastic and aluminum

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2022-04-25 09:00:40 IMPORTANT

Hagia Sofia's imperial gate was vandalized
>https://archive.is/zV20F
>https://archive.is/duUdB

the Association of Art History in a post on Twitter complains that: "We found that the historic Imperial Gate of Hagia Sophia is in this condition and we photographed it, around 20:45 tonight (18.04.2022)"

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After the public outrage caused by the images, Turkish authorities rushed to denounce the vandalism acts and promise that the perpetrators would be identified. Sadly as it is a Greek-made monument very little effort will likely be made to protect the monument and to identify or bring to justice those who caused such vandalism

"Oh noes, nobody expected Turks to be disrespectful towards a Christian monument after converting it into a mosque as a show of force and to disrespect its status once more" said the naive European and EU politicians

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2022-04-24 21:04:23 DEFINITIVE RESULTS: MACRON IS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT BY 58.2% OF VOTES Open / Comment