Originally posted by Epirot
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Also, as soon as Ali pasha`s uprising ended with his death, Greek uprising in Morea started in 1820s. This was a total coincidence for you?
These are just my suspicions but i don't know anything for sure.
Albanians had chance to be "Greeks" or to declare their country as "Greece" but instead they declared proudly themselves as ALBANIANS (both Muslims and Orthodoxes).
It would be quite incorrect to say "Turks" (at the context we are talking about) because the best expression that fits to that period is "Ottoman" or "Ottomanism" (or in the context "Ottomans..."). Of course, Ottoman troops made hostile represails against everyone who joined anti-Ottoman revolts and this is well-documented. It is very meaningless to doubt or even worst, to review this reality.
Hostile reprisals against revolts? Do you expect something else? You know, Balkans was about ~500 year old Ottoman territories, "European part of Turkey" according to westerners. So, if someone revolts in your 500 year old lands, you usually respond with hostile actions against them in early 20th century as all other states does same.
Also, when i said Ottoman empire era, i meant 600 years of time, not only 1900s. So tell me when Ottomans oppressed Albanians in that 600 years of time? This question is even absurd cuz that term "Ottomans" also includes about 30-40 Albanian viziers and numerous governors etc.
Ottoman empire even after Young Turk "revolution" fought against Albanian schools. Young-Turks tolerated only Greek schools...so Greece owe its success in hellenization of southern Albanians to the Ottoman Empire...
Yes, Greeks was always favored among christians and to me, this was the biggest mistake of Ottoman era but when Turks decided to that, they weren't Greeks but they were Romans. They became Greeks only after second half of 19th century. When Turkish rulers understood that things was wrong with Istanbul patriarchy, it was too late anymore and they had no power to abolish their privileges. They had to do that in 1453 AD and set all the christians free from the grasp of ex-Romans, neo-Greeks.
But, don't blame only Turks for that. Your Morean cousins was very savage too. You know they massacred their muslim Albanian kinsmen in there at 1820. So, they were fully blinded with Greek propaganda and bloodthirstiness against their muslim kinsmen.
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