Mick Hartley

Quite the chutzpah for Turkey to open this kettle of fish.

If Turkey is now committed to "decolonization," does that mean they will give back the lands taken from the many ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of Ottoman & Turkish imperialism?

Will the Armenians… https://t.co/ykqHVFIIVO

— Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@jkenney) July 23, 2026

Will the Armenians have their ancient lands restored to them, or receive reparations for the genocide inflicted on them in 1915?

The Kurds given the right of self-determination?

The ancient Greek regions returned?

Will the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus be reversed?

Will the descendants of Jewish families who fled Kemalist policies of forced assimilation be given compensation?

Will the Hagia Sophia be returned the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, from whom it was stolen?

Will there be a truth & reconciliation project recognizing the millions of slaves taken & trafficked by the Ottoman Empire, particularly the countless boys kidnapped from Balkan Christian families for forced military service?

Will compensation be given to Christians for the hundred of Churches and monasteries destroyed?

The possibilities for Turkish decolonization are endless.

That “Decolonization” plan:

Their alliance is not advocating for a world without the West, rather, there is an open invitation for the West to accept its own “decolonization”.

The current centers of knowledge located in Paris, London, Amsterdam. And New York; need to be replaced by new centers in Istanbul, Jakarta, Addis Abbaba [sic], Rabat, Cairo, and Gaza.