Do the people of Turkey and Iran have the same religion?

Sweet n So

There's recent news about Turkey's revived close relationship with Iran so I was wondering if they have any cultural similarities such as religion.

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Yes, Iran and Turkey have a Muslim majority, at least a majority that is muslim in name. Iranian Muslims are mostly Shi and Turkish Muslims are mostly Sunni. Both have Jewish and Christian minorities.

The history of the two countries actually goes back many thousands of years. The Turks in Turkey are descended from Ancient Greeks, ancient Iranians, Hittites, and of course, the Turkish invaders that arrived there in the Middle Ages. The Iranians are descended from ancient indo-european tribes that migrated to the Middle East many thousands of years ago from southern Russia(there were no Russians there back then) and Central Asia.

The Turks formed the Ottoman Empire and the Iranians, the Iranian Empire(known as the Persian Empire in the west). It should be noted that the Persian Empire was revived after Alexander and though it collapsed several times, it always restored itself and continued well into the 18th century.
The Ottoman Empire(established in the late Middle Ages) fought with the Persian Empire for 3 centuries though neither side could defeat the other. The last major battle ended in victory for the Persians but the Persian Empire collapsed some time after since the last emperor was killed.

Turks today have certain traditions borrowed from the Iranians and are similar to the Iranians in the area of culture because of this.

turkey is restoring "Surb Khach" and other Armenian churches in turkey are made into starehouses explain pls

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By the way restoring like museum(other churches are made into mosques after such restoration)
I know the truth about our Genocide although thx for site
please don't educate us go educate yourself

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I have read the news about it, unfortunately it is true, they are trying hard to minimize or if they can destroy the evidence of thousands of years of presence of Armenian people in their homeland Armenia.
They will do anything, the churches in the first place, but world is watching them now, they were not successful enough in last 92 years, the land is full of Armenian historical sites.

Here is the latest news about Surb Khach church:

Already on March 2 Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey Atilla Koc stated that a cross shall be certainly placed on eth dome of the Surb Khach church of Akhtamar if it originally had one. Nevertheless he submitted patriarch Mesrob II Mutafian's request to restore the cross and allow yearly religious celebrations at Surb Khach to the Foreign Ministry.

On April 11 "Miliet " newspaper expressed negative opinion about the placement of a cross on the dome of Surb Khach. The article was represented to the Culture Ministry and the Department of Historical Memorials and Museums of Turkey.

According to "Milliet", the Foreign Ministry of Turkey says that "Aya Sofia" temple ios also turned into a museum and neither Christian or Muslim holy services are held there. The Ministy states that the same status is given to the Surb Khach church. Therefore placing a cross on its dome is unreasonable.

http://www.armtown.com/news/en/azg/20070413/2007041302/

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What is the latest news for children on a satellite launch to pluto?

shahithepr

I heard that around 25 children out of India would be taken to Turkey for research work on the basis of their performance in a competition to be held by a space organization. Last entries by 5-2-2006.

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Go to the following website to get the latest news on the Pluto - Kuiper Belt mission:

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

What will happen if syria and turkey go to war?

Johnathan

I have been seeing on the news here latley that it looks like syria and turkey are about to go to war, if so would the usa,russia,china get involved? WW3?
if your going to say stupid shit like yes we are all going to die/ doomed than dont even say anything alright? =]

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People tie the Arab spring to things: do not like, they fear, or they have interest in. Arab spring is where normal Arab people rebelled against corruption, discrimination, opportunistic, living under slavery of dictators and their families and relatives. Arab spring has nothing to do with the outside world or others outside the Arab states except oppositions living in exile/s. The Arab spring has nothing to do with religions and religious issues. Arabs, for the first time, were able through the web such as facebook and Twitter to organize large demonstrations against Dictators.
Google: The Syrian Revolution (English) | Facebook - (Includes massacreâs photos)


⢠First : (TUNISIA)
Arab Spring started in Tunisia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi
Google: mohamed bouazizi

⢠Last : (SYRIA)
Because of the extreme fear and intimidation Syrians lived with for 42 years. Under the same illegal, racial, criminal, most ugly regime in the world. The last Arab state that joined the Arab spring was Syria.
The last uprising against this regime was in the 1982. Where the last Illegal president Hafez Assad and his brother killed 40.000 Syrians to appease them and destroyed the city of Hamah.

Google : Hamah city,

The current uprising started In the Syrian city of Daraâa on the border with Jordan. Where some kids, influenced by the TVâs news of the Arab spring in other Arab states, wrote things on a wall where the kids were forcefully taken from their parents, imprisoned, tortured, their nails were taken of, and at the beginning refused to free them under any circumstances. As a result their parents rebelled and some of them were shot died by the regime. This resulted the uprising to start and escalate in many other areas of Syria.
For many months, the regime as used to in the last 42 years, used extreme force, torture, and direct killing against peaceful protestors and accused them of all kind of bad accusations and telling the world that they have been fighting terrorists. The same way did in the last 42 years of tutoring under the lie that they were fighting Israel and America. Anybody opposed that lie was taken, tortured, considered traitor and executed. They banned the international media from entering Syria and converted it into a large prison. All that resulted in the escape of soldiers with their arms from the army and established small armed groups to protect civilians. Later, armed struggle against the regime started after months of daily killing of civilians and no help of any kind from outside Syria.

Now over 30.000 were killed, 100s of thousands in prisons, women have been raped by the regime, Kids and babies have been slaughtered, millions fled the country, cities have been destroyed by most sophisticated arms. The Syrian regime even, have been bullying, harassing, and threatening Syrians and/or others around the world who opposed. Unfortunately, still there is nobody really helping to stop the massacres until now.


Al-Baâath party has 2 branches, one ruling Syria under Al-Assad and the other was ruling Iraq under Saddam Husain with the same ideology and ideas.

The Syrian story started with the father (Hafez Assad) who came from the poor Alawis village (Qardaha) on the Syrian coast. He wanted to study medicine but he couldnât because he was too poor. He went to the military school and later he and his colleagues in Al-Baâath party illegally and forcefully overthrew the government and took over the power in Syria. Then, Assad imprisoned those colleagues until they died in prisons and controlled Syria alone with his family and made Syria the only Apartheid Arab state. Alawis from Qardaha and other Alawis villages invaded the Syrian cities like Locusts and controlled all kind of high positions in Syria. The way they speak has a tune and some special words and this distinguished them. Syrians feared them to death whenever they are because they know that they are above the law. Directly after Hafez Assad passed away, the constitution was altered and his son Bashar inherited illegally the presidency of Syria and the regime remained the same. Now, Al-Assad family and cousins and relatives control absolutely everything in Syria, and they became one of the richest worldwide and that is one reason why they do not want to leave power.
The other reason is that they are Alawis, a religious group who follow the Shia (Iran) in Islam; and that why Iran is unconditionally supporting them. Iran has been helping the regime by influencing Russia and china in the UN, supplying the regime with arms and skillful Iranian soldiers. Recently, Iranian official said that the victory of Assad is the victory of Iran.

Nobody is assisting the Syrians. (Assad = Hitler)'s regime has been taking advantage of the careless and reluctant Arab and international situation and has been dropping TNT barrels on civilians and committing genocide. The current Holocaust is going on in Syria.

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I need a source to learn about Syria civil war?

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Chester b

I consider myself a very knowledgable guy and I try to stay current with world news, but I have had an extremely hard time when it comes to what's going on in Syria. I have read some conflicting articles and I realize every news source has its bias. I just want to know what's really going on. Thank you in advance.

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The current conflict in Syria has nothing to do with "freedom" or "democracy", it is driven entirely by the geopolitical aspirations of the United States and its middle eastern allies.

The US has wanted to overthrow the Syrian government for a long time, and not because of any "humanitarian" concerns, but because of Syria's opposition to American regional interests, its long-time hostility towards the apartheid state of Israel, its support for resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon, and its alliance with major geopolitical enemies of the US, such as Russia, China and Iran. By destroying Syria the US hopes to break apart the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis and get closer to establishing total hegemony in the middle east.

America's regional allies, namely the totalitarian Sunni monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are diametrically opposed to the Shia-led governments of Syria and Iran, and want to destroy them not only for political reasons but also to spread their own influence by exporting their brand of extreme religious ideology (wahhabism).

The US government has admittedly made plans decades ago to carry out regime change in Syria. In fact, it is documented that the US government has given money and weapons to sectarian anti-government terrorists in Syria and provided training to so-called Syrian "activists" BEFORE the start of the current "uprising". (http://bit.ly/KmkQF3)

The so-called "Free Syrian Army" are nothing but a collection of Sunni extremists and Islamist militants from all over the middle east hired to fight as a proxy army on behalf of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and to accomplish their geopolitical goals. The majority of the FSA are not Syrians; most come from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Libya, the Gulf states, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere. Many of them are jihadists and terrorists directly linked to Al-Qaeda and other salafi terror groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda in Syria) and the Muslim Brotherhood.

These terrorist groups, which later named themselves the "Free Syrian Army", are the ones who have been causing the violence in Syria since the very beginning. In April 2011 there was a peaceful protest movement calling for reforms within the government, but it was quickly hijacked by the FSA and turned into a violent insurgency. The FSA do not care about freedom, democracy or reforms. It was their goal from the beginning to hijack the legitimate Syrian opposition and start a civil war. They are terrorists motivated solely by sectarian hatred, and they have openly expressed their desire to establish an Islamic state in Syria.

For the past year and a half Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been supplying them with money, weapons and fighters. In April 2011 journalists witnessed armed militants crossing into Syria across the Lebanese border. Every day Syrian security forces find foreign passports on dead FSA fighters as well as shipments of foreign equipment and advanced weaponry in FSA stockpiles.

In the first weeks of the "peaceful uprising", terrorists began murdering dozens of Syrian soldiers, mercenary snipers shot civilians and security forces in cities, armed men provoked violence by shooting at policemen from inside crowds, and Saudi-funded extremist preachers in Mosques incited uneducated Sunni youths to riot, burn police stations and commit sectarian violence, forcing the hand of the Syrian government into what the western media has called a "crackdown".

Since then the "Free Syrian Army" terrorists have killed at least 20,000 people, and have kidnapped and tortured thousands more. They are blowing up government buildings, sabotaging infrastructure, setting off car bombs in residential areas, destroying and terrorizing neighborhoods, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, destroying mosques and churches, committing massacres, murdering anyone whom they suspect of supporting the government, or anyone who has different beliefs than them (Alawites, Christians, Shiites and moderate Sunnis).

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Most "news reports" about Syria shown on CNN/BBC/Al-Jazeera are stories and rumors that are taken directly from anonymous "activists" and Syrian opposition sources without any verification whatsoever. Most of the reports turn out to be completely false, and many times the sources aren't even Syrian.

For example, the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" quoted often in the media actually consists of one man in a London apartment

Why do many Americans think that Assad is bad and Syrian rebels are good?

Ahmed

I am Syrian and I want to ask this question. The people who say that Syrian people hate Assad don't know what is going on here.

The people that are trying to overthrow Assad are NOT Syrian civilians. They are members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda linked Jihadists. They are mostly from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. In Syria, there are three cultural religious groups: Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims and Christians. Bashar Al Assad is secular, meaning that people worship in whichever way they choose without persecution. The Muslim Brotherhood DO NOT want democracy. They want to turn Syria into an Islamic state, meaning that it will be controlled by Sunni extremists. In an Islamic state, Shias and Christians will be killed by the Muslim brotherhood government. Most of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood are not even Syrian, they are from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other muslim countries. The Assad government is supported by Christians, Shia Muslims and moderate Sunnis, and that means almost everyone in Syria supports Assad. We DO NOT hate our president.

These terrorists that the USA and most western governments are sending to Syria are extremists and kill Christians and Shia muslims for the fact of being so. These terrorists ("rebels" who aren't even Syrian) who are using chemical weapons, and the west is trying to demonize Assad to make it look like Syria is the one who used the chemical weapons so they can justify an invasion of Syria with their own troops.
This is why everyone says that the American people don't know anything about the rest of the world.

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