In memory of martyrs.. neo-Ottomans exterminate of peoples of region

 The Ottoman Empire is one of the countries and forces that committed bloody massacres against the peoples of the region, including Arabs, Kurds, Armenians and Syriacs. Its granddaughter, the Turkish state, or the so-called neo-Ottomans, completes their massacres against peoples from Syria and Iraq to Libya, Armenia and others.

 Occupation of the Levant

 The Ottoman Empire occupied the Levant from 1516 until the end of World War I in 1918.

 The sultans continued to rule the Ottoman Empire until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Turkish nationalists, led by the Assembly of Union and Progress, succeeded in gaining power in 1908, so they worked to impose nationalism and the Turkish language on all other nationalities living under the Ottoman occupation.

 With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Ottoman Empire sided with the countries of the center bloc (Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire) against the  (the United States of America, Russia, France, Britain).  It tightened its grip on the Levant, imposing taxes, conscription, and the Turkish language.

 Chauvinistic politics ignited the revolution

 Due to the failure of the Ottoman authorities to implement the decisions issued by the Paris Conference in 1913, which required Arab participation in the rule, and their enjoyment of autonomy within the Ottoman Empire at the time, and their continuation of their chauvinistic policies based on imposing control and plundering wealth, in addition to the Turkification policies of the linguistic and cultural heritage in the countries they occupied  especially in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon) and Iraq, which led to the ignition of the roots of the revolution, especially among the intellectuals, politicians and sheikhs who demanded the exit of the Ottoman occupier.

 When the revolutions began demanding the exit of the Ottoman Empire from the region, the latter increased the abuse of these peoples in an attempt to impose control over the country, through a policy of intimidation and executions that affected many revolutionaries, militants, politicians and intellectuals in those regions.

 The Ottomans further tightened the screws on the people. The people, led by intellectuals and politicians opposing the Ottoman rule, revolted and organized campaigns calling for joining the Great Arab Revolt that started from the Hijaz to overthrow the rule of the Ottomans.

 Executions and massacres did not force the rebels to surrender

 Jamal Pasha al-Saffah resorted to various methods to undermine this revolution by accusing them of collaborating with Britain and France to overthrow them.

 These accusations formed the ground for repression against leaders, intellectuals and politicians, intensified killing and terrorism, and initiated a series of executions against all those suspected of it.

 Accordingly, Jamal Pasha issued death sentences to a number of intellectuals and patriots from Damascus and Beirut in a moot court in Mount Lebanon.

 The Ottoman authorities implemented these sentences in two batches, the first on August 21, 1915, and the second on May 6, 1916, in which a larger number were executed, in both Burj Square in Beirut, which was later called Martyrs Square, and Marjeh Square in Damascus.

 In order to cover up the crimes of Jamal Pasha, the butcher in the country, the Ottoman authorities removed him from Syria, and appointed Jamal Pasha al-Marsini (known as al-Saghir) in his place.

 Then Jamal Pasha the butcher was killed in the city of Tbilisi in 1922 AD by an Armenian named Stephan Zaghkian, in retaliation for the massacres committed by the Ottomans against the Armenians in 1915, within a wide movement known as Operation Nemesis, meaning “punishment” that affected all those responsible for that genocide, which claimed more than a million lives and half a million Armenians.

 The Syrians and the Lebanese did not succumb to the Ottoman practices. Rather, these practices contributed to perpetuating the fact that the revolution was the only way to get rid of the Ottoman occupation. The Great Arab Revolt of 1916 marked the beginning of the end for the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for four consecutive centuries. After the revolution’s success, the conference announced  The Syrian National in 1920 the independence of Syria and Iraq from the Ottoman Empire.

 History records the crimes of the Ottomans on its pages

 The Syrian lawyer and politician, Alaa Al-Din Al-Khaled Kalou, spoke about this, saying: "The Ottoman history spanning more than six centuries has featured many names and personalities who deservedly occupied the leading positions in the lists of massacres and criminality for the worst sultans, rulers, governors, and leaders of the armies, the murderous criminals throughout history because of  what they committed of massacres and crimes against humanity and humanity against the Arab, Kurdish, Armenian, Syriac, Assyrian, Chaldean, Bulgarian and other peoples who fell victim under their brutal, tyrannical rule, including Jamal Pasha, the butcher, who was one of these thugs and criminals.

 He added, "The massacres perpetrated by the Ottomans on May 6, 1916 in Damascus and Beirut, which we celebrate as a day of martyrs in Syria and Lebanon against a group of their finest intellectuals, and writers who resisted the Ottoman occupation and worked to awaken the national spirit among their peoples for liberation and liberation from the yoke of Ottoman slavery, which was built on the bloods of all the peoples of the region.”

 He attributed the reasons for this to “their crimes and massacres that affected all the peoples who occupied their lands, which are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity;  The likes of Huseyin Inan, Yusuf Aslan and Deniz Kazmish, in clear and blatant defiance of the aspirations of the Turkish people to live in freedom and democracy.

 The neo-Ottomans follow the path of their ancestors

 The policies of the Turks in occupying neighboring countries and interfering in their affairs, and following the methods of Turkification, displacement, killing and destruction, did not end even after the elimination of the Ottoman rule in Syria.

 Since Turkey began occupying Syrian lands effectively after an agreement with Russia, starting in August 2016 and occupying the cities of Jarablus, Al-Bab and Azaz, it has continued the policy of its Ottoman ancestors, in terms of committing massacres, displacing the people and imposing a policy of Turkification in the occupied areas. There are no accurate statistics on the number of civilians who were killed and injured in the Turkish attacks on these areas.

 The occupation and massacres against the Syrians did not stop in these areas. On January 20, 2018, the Turkish occupation state launched attacks on Afrin, which lasted until March 18 of the same year until the occupation of the city, and within a period of only two months, Turkey committed 12 massacres against the residents of Afrin.

 The Turkish occupation continued its approach of killing civilians, during its attack on the cities of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî / Tel Abyad, in October 2019, to work on changing the demographics of these areas after their occupation.

 Perhaps the bloodiest massacre during the Turkish occupation’s attacks on the city of Serêkaniyê was targeting civilian convoy on October 13, 2019 with direct bombardment, which led to the death of 13 civilians, including journalists, and the injury of more than 70 others, as well as the massacre committed by Turkey’s mercenaries against the Secretary-General of the Syria Party  The future Hevrin Khalaf on October 12, 2019 on the M4 international road between Tal Tamr and Ain Issa.

 In addition to Syria, the Turkish occupation launched attacks on Southern Kurdistan and Iraq and intervened in Libya, Armenia and other countries.

 On the crimes that Turkey is now committing under the rule of the Justice and Development Party, the Syrian lawyer said: "What we see today are continuous and systematic crimes and massacres committed by the Turkish government represented by the Justice and Development Party against all the peoples and countries of the region in general and the Kurdish people in both Syria and Iraq  In particular, and for the right of the peoples of northern and eastern Syria in particular, it is nothing but an extension of the mentality of the policies of exclusion, Turkification, and the perpetration of massacres that it inherited from the Ottoman Empire, which are two sides of the same coin in terms of purpose and content.

 He added, "Accordingly, we can say that these great martyrs, through their honorable ascension to the Ottoman and Turkish execution platforms without fear, were a clear and blatant challenge to the oppression and tyranny of the Ottoman occupier and the policies of subsequent Turkish governments; they succeeded in implanting the concept of freedom and uprising in the face of the occupier in the minds of many of their peoples, in addition to  To win the hearts of millions of their people and all the peoples who are fighting for their freedom and the attainment of their rights.

 'Today we are in dire need for the cooperation of all peoples in the face of the Turkish invasions'

 In this context, the Syrian lawyer and politician, Alaa Al-Din Al-Khaled Kalou, sent a message to the peoples of the region, saying: "Today we are in dire need of solidarity, solidarity and cooperation of all the peoples of the region, regardless of race, religion, sect or belief, to stand united in the face of injustice and aggression."  And the invasions of the government of justice and development and its aggressive, hostile and occupying policies and the liberation of all occupied lands so that all the peoples of the region would gain their freedom and their legitimate rights.

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 ANHA