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The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and Muslims praying in a building that does not belong to their historical or civilizational heritage, is the clearest proof that Islam is a barbaric religion that does not create, but only conquers and destroys. Also we all know that nobody visits Turkey for their "culture". You visit Turkey to see Greek-Byzantine heritage and Asia Minor to admire the Ancient Greek archaeological sites. I almost forgot it. Many people are visiting Turkey just to do a hair transplant. Oh, and of course the food. Which is Turkish only by name and of course you can find every single recipe in the Byzantine books and in the ancient Greek work of Athenaeus (Deipnosophists). Does anyone seriously believe that the "Turks" that supposedly came from the Steppes and they were nomads, were making wine and desserts? You have to be completely uneducated if you don't know that the real Turks were nomads living in tents moving all the time. But I don't really care about those things. I care about heritage and our lands that are occupied. Both Constantinople & Istanbul are Greek words. Istanbul comes from the Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" (pronounced "is tim ˈbolin"), meaning "to the City" & is how it was referred to by the Greeks. Turks started using that word the last 50-70 years. Constantinople comes from the Greek Konstantinoúpolis meaning City of Constantine. The name Constantine derives from the Latin word constantia, which means stability. The mother of Constantine, Helena, was a Greek and Christian from Bithynia who played an important role as Augusta and subsequently as the mother of Constantine in the shaping of the Roman Empire, with New Rome, known as Constantinople, as its capital. Helena and her son Constantine were the first archeologists in the history. She was responsible for the construction of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the Church of Eleona on the Mount of Olives; sites of Christ's birth. She is most famous for the discovery of the True Cross. According to Eusebius, Constantine and Helena destroyed the temple of Venus and discovered the burial site of Jesus in the spot that Emperor Hadrian had built during the 130s over the site of Jesus' tomb near Calvary. She went to Cyprus where she found pieces of the holy cross, and pieces of the rope with which Jesus was tied on the Cross. Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, her place of residence. Later legends depict her as bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, now the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where they can be still seen today. Both Constantine and his mother Helena are commemorated annually as saints in Greece on the 21st of May, and it is a huge celebration. The third name of Constantinople (the oldest chronologically) was known as Byzantium is Greek (ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), was the name given to it at its foundation by Megarians and their King Byzas, around 657 BC. "Byzantium" is not a made up term like Turks want you to believe. It was the first and original name of the city. But of course this is something they don't know because they have the poorest education system in the world. We read in the geographical/topographical encyclopedic-dictionary of Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century AD) : "Byzantion" : Byzantion, the royal city in Thrace, a most renowned city, situated by the Propontis, on the European side. An oracle was given to the Megarians who inquired at Delphi, as follows: "Blessed are the men who will inhabit that city, by the narrow mouth of the Thracian shore, where fish and deer graze the same pasture; set out as quickly as possible, taking all this to heart." And so it was founded by Byzantas, son of Keroessa, daughter of Io and Poseidon, or because Byzas was the leader of the fleet. It is also said that the sea urchins there are highly sensitive to the winds. The city was later renamed Constantinople and New Rome. The ethnic term is Konstantinopolitis, without the "u." The ethnic term for Byzas is Byzantios with an "i," while the possessive form uses a diphthong. The ethnic term Byzantios is of three genders. The possessive form is Byzantiakos. It is also called Byzantias and Byzantis. There is also Byzanteia with a diphthong referring to the region. From Byzantios comes Byzantia and Byzantianos, and Byzanteianos with a diphthong, like Herakleianos. There is also another Byzantion in India. It is very important to understand what I wrote in the beginning of my post. One more time. The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and Muslims praying in a building that does not belong to their historical or civilizational heritage, is the clearest proof that Islam is a barbaric religion that does not create, but only conquers and destroys, and the clearest proof that Turkey has nothing to offer to the world except problems and terrorism. If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through because of Islam. Always with primary sources and historical facts. Thanks for reading me and for all the support. - Homer Pavlos

Today Turks celebrate the "founder" of their pseudo-nation, Mustafa Kemal. Let's remember that Muslim Turks, under the command of Mustafa Kemal, sold the bones of the murdered Christians to bleach sugar and tobacco. After the genocide and expulsion of the Greeks from Asia Minor (1923), ships loaded with the remains of Greeks and Armenians sailed on their way to Western Europe. Turkey sold the bones of the dead. Industries used them to bleach sugar and tobacco. They ground them into fertilizer. At least 400 tons. More than 50,000 dead. Thousands of men, women, and children fell into the hands of the Kemalist army and the irregulars. Women were raped in groups. Men were tortured without limit. Entire villages that stayed behind, hoping their Turkish neighbors would show mercy, were executed. The hostages were driven on death marches across thousands of kilometers. Barefoot. Nearly naked. Beaten by villagers along the way. Many died of thirst in the ravines of Magnesia. Those ravines supplied the bones Kemal later sold. The survivors were sent to labor battalions. They rebuilt the infrastructure of the new Turkish state under conditions designed to finish them. We do not forget. We never forget the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus & Asia Minor by the Muslim Turks. The genocide was orchestrated by Mustafa Kemal & the Young Turks, & it was racially and religiously motivated in order to create their pseudo-nation 100 years ago. They butchered, tortured, raped, burnt and starved to death through the death marches millions of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians. The true barbarian is the one who turns the dead into raw material and then lectures the living about civilization. - Homer Pavlos Pictures: 1. Cargo of Human Bones. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18902, 27 December 1924 2. Yarn of a Cargo of Human Bones: The New York Times (Dec 23, 1924. 3. Midi Newspaper,Cargaison funebre (A Mournful Load). Dec 24, [1924]. 4. Brandon Daily Sun, 28 April 1924.

When Muslim Turks entered Constantinople, they rushed across the City toward the Great Church of Hagia Sophia looking for Christians. Terrified Greek Christians fled into the churches, some hoping the Turks would respect sanctuary, others believing a prophecy that the enemy would be stopped at the Column of Constantine by an angel who would deliver the city and drive the Turks from the West. Within an hour of the Turks’ entry the Hagia Sophia was packed with people who thought they were safe. They only made their capture easier. The first Turks to arrive broke down the doors. Critobulus says the crowd was taken as in a drag-net. Refugees were tied or chained together. Some were dragged to the ships, others to the camp. The loot was treated the same way. Inside the Hagia Sophia the Turks fought each other for the most beautiful women. Daughters of Byzantine noble families raised in luxury, nuns who had lived secluded from the world, were seized and subjected to violence. Their clothes were torn from them by men who refused to give up their prizes. Masters and mistresses were bound to their servants. Church dignitaries were chained to the lowest menials. The captors drove their flocks of victims before them, lodged them under guard, and hurried back for more. Ropes, ribbons, and handkerchiefs were used to bind them. Sacred icons were torn down and burned. Altar cloths, chalices, chandeliers, carpets, and ornaments, everything valuable and portable, were carried off. Historian Phrantzes called "the desecration of the Temple of Holy Wisdom, the Earthly Heaven and Throne of the Glory of God, the greatest misfortune of all". The other churches were plundered in the same way. Richly embroidered robes, gold-woven chasubles set with pearls and precious stones, and church furniture were seized. Ornaments were ripped off and the rest thrown aside. A crucifix was carried in mock procession topped with a Janissary’s cap. Historian Critobulus records that holy books, works of philosophy, and treatises on the sciences were thrown into the fire, trampled underfoot, or sold in mockery for two or three pence or even farthings. Historian Ducas says the Turkish ships carried an innumerable quantity of books. For a small coin ten volumes of Plato, Aristotle, and theology could be bought. Christian and Muslim writers agree the sack lasted three days, as Mehmed had promised. Khodja Sad-ud-din affirms that the soldiers of Islam acted according to the precept "Slaughter their aged and capture their youth." For three days and nights, with imperial permission, there was general sack. The Mohammedans seized the spoil and the damsels beautiful as houris. Leonard states that sixty thousand captives were bound together for distribution. Critobulus, writing years later, estimated that four thousand Greeks and Italians were killed during the siege and after the capture, that five hundred of the army and upwards of fifty thousand of the rest of the population were reduced to slavery. After the conquest, Mehmet recognised that Constantinople needed to be repeopled. He ordered five thousand families to be sent from the provinces to the capital and commanded the repair of the walls. Ducas states that the five thousand Greek families sent from Trebizond, Sinope, and Asprocastron under pain of death included masons and lime-burners for repairing the walls. To attract population, Mehmet understood that he needed to conciliate the Greeks. A few days after the conquest Mehmet ordered the captives who formed part of his own share of the booty to be established in houses on the slope toward the Golden Horn. From among the noble families he selected the young men for himself. Some he placed in the corps of Janissaries. Others, distinguished by their education, he kept near him as pages. Mehmet published an edict within a few weeks of the capture that all former inhabitants who had paid ransom, or who were ready to enter into an agreement with their masters to pay it within a fixed period, should be considered free, allowed to live in the city, and for a time exempt from taxes. Phrantzes states that even on the third day after the capture an order was issued allowing those who had fled and were in hiding to return, promising they should not be molested. On the question whether they would still have to pay ransom, Phrantzes is silent. A few weeks later, after his visit to Adrianople, Mehmet sent orders to various parts of his empire to despatch families of Christians, Jews, and Turks to repeople the city. He tried to allure Greeks and other workmen by employing them on public works, notably the construction of a palace, for which, Critobulus says, he had chosen the most beautiful site in the city, at Seraglio Point, the construction of the fortress of the Seven Towers around the Golden Gate, and the repairs of the Inner Wall. He ordered the Turks to allow their slaves to take part in this work so that they might earn money not only to live but to save enough for their ransom. If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through because of Islam. Always with primary sources and historical facts. Thanks for reading me and for all the support. - Homer Pavlos