Turkey is taking its bellicose stance against Greece to the next level, as the newspaper Yeni Safak reports that Turkey is considering appealing to the International Court of Justice. over the fall of Tripolitsa in 1821.
The pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak writes that “Greece’s crime against humanity, which turned the 1821 revolt against the Ottoman Empire into a massacre of more than 50,000 Turks, Jews, and Albanians in Tripoli, will be brought to the International Criminal Court.”
The report even hosts statements by Irfan Tatlioglu, president of the Yoruk Turkmen Union of the Turkic World, who stated that “they have received support from the parties in the Turkish National Assembly and from the Turkish Historical Society.”
Tatlioglu also stated that Greece celebrated the 200th anniversary of the “massacre” as a day of honour and added that he intends to bring this inhuman cruelty of Greece to the agenda.
He further explained that they also met with political party groups in the Turkish National Assembly and found support. “We will make the information and documents of the massacre into a file and a book, present them to international courts and bring to light that this is genocide, atrocity, and massacre,” he said.
“The fall of Tripolitsa in 1821 is a stain on history”
This is not the first time that the Turks “remember” the Fall of Tripoli since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had labeled it a “stain on history”.
“200 years have passed since tens of thousands of Turks were brutally and mercilessly slaughtered in Tripolitsa. This inhumane massacre aimed not to leave a single Turk in the Peloponnese and thus went down in history as a black stain,” said the Turkish Foreign Ministry in a post last year accompanied by a graph showing a map of the Peloponnese with a wound bleeding in place of Tripoli.
