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Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.........educational content is slim.
Correction is an Arab soldier from the Levant, identifying from Aleppo It is known that a third of the population of the Ottoman Empire and most of its army were Arabs, and those who built and taught the Turks, the Mongols, of civilization were Arab scholars, professionals, craftsmen, engineers, and teachers, most of whom were from the Arab world.
it the class struggle, poor against rich, as always... Nothing more, nothing less... Karl Marx said "There´s no other war, but the class struggle", meaning, that if ever a war should happen, then only the class-war, cause all other wars are useless and constructed...
@@klausbrinck2137 Funny that we saw none of that "class struggle" in the bloody Ottoman Empire. Not a single "poor Turk" joined forces with Greeks to rebel against the Sultans. Stop dreaming boy.
@@Fokas-n8t thats because the turks were muslims and the non muslims had to pay hight taxes and give even there childs to them everyone hated the ottonoobs.
@@klausbrinck2137 stupıd teenage boy class struggles born with capitalism before that people were okey with their shitty life style because they were both ignorant and helpless marxsizimg is the one of the most idiotic ideology in the world to you guys support marxsizimg, freedom and humanism but to achieve Communism Marx says we have to eliminate counter revelationsist and other ideology that means in the parliament there wouldn't be any other ideology other than communism but you also say we should be a divers community if you read enough you ll find that marx is just a naive man
What a life he lived. High rank in the Ottoman Empire, Espionage, Partecipating in the siege of Vienna, becoming again an hero in a foreign land, beautiful.
I'm confused how the author of the video forgot to mention that the story is a legend, it's a popular story from an opera the story is made up for an opera it's a legend, I have nothing else to say lol
"You decide to train the peasants" "You put the peasants through the basics of soldiering, discipline and obedience. You think one of them has fully grasped the training and is ready for some practice."
The France army invaded the Dutch people back in ottoman times, they asked Sultan Suleiyman for aid, He instead of sending hes troops he send them Janissary outfits, ''Wear These and it will do it's duty.'' The France that Day retreated once they spotted the Dutch guards with Janissary gear.
@user-ex6nd8dq8w Ah you chose to look at the other side of the coin. The ottomans were past its prime at the time. Because for hundreds of years before that, the janissaries were the most feared, disciplined military unit in the world
@@death2denemy They were most feared not so much for their fighting effectiveness (no comment on that), but for their psychopathic nature. No wonder, when one takes into account these were enslaved Christian boys which were tortured to achieve islamification and acceptance of military service to the Sultan, the very enemy of their own families back home, a home which they would never see again unless raiding and pillaging it. It is a disgusting history of slavery, child abuse including massive child molestation but yeah... people are all cheers and laughs about it. In this instance here we talk of a "Turk" who was such an enslaved boy who was force-islamified to avoid a horrible death, and who had a change of heart as an adult reverting back to Christianity (the local variety there in North Italy).
@@RIHLAND imagine what peace would turks bring to europe if they conquered it, i mean ranging from child marriage, woman slavery, rape of infidels, jizziah taxes, slave trade, concubine slavery, womans oppression, devshirmah/mamulking, destruction of native history, comversions of historical monuments into mosques and masjids....etc to suppression of science because it doesn't align with quran and hadith...such totally NON BIASED video, you are greta mate and pray for "religion of peace" to became majority in EU and USA, salam al jihad, and may islam take al andalus like their muftis are saying... seriously great video and ur biase is also great, well done
@@Pontheon. Man there was no such thing as unity in Europe back then nor the idea of Europe herself. The only thing that mattered was the self-benefit of the Church. All dynasties were at war with each other until WW2 and hence it caused majority of the population to migrate into New World. Settlers,Privateers,Pirates etc..This Hasan guy survived the Austrian-Ottoman war and truly peaceful Christian people helped him like a true follower of the Christ and he returned them a favor by helping them in the art of war to stand up for themselves against the tyranny of corrupt people.
Do you know the history of the Janissary corps? They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
@@alexrenn2479 That is not correct. Remember at those times, being a Janissary is like being a Top Gun pilot here in US. That was a well-paid, education included, good life. Families saw it as an opportunity for a better life for their kids. The story of Ottomans stealing young and bright children is a story at its best.
You know that the Janissaries were not Turkish people but Eastern European Slavic or Balkan people stolen from the families as children by Ottoman Empire and forced to be Soldier.
that guy led an adventurous life; he fought in epic battles with his brothers as an elite, became a spy, knew many different cultures and languages, served, seen defeat, fought against death, found a new home, teached the people, fought against tyranny, became the hero of his new home and married. Probably lived and died happy. A true adventurer in middle age.
Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.
Maybe I am his descendant... My mother was born there. In family, we have this legend. Moena is a beautiful town in the mountains. A pearl near the Rosengarten, a meeting point for three ethnic groups, italians, germans, and ladins. It's really interesting how this soldier finishes there. Still nowadays is a part of Moena that people call zu dal Turko. I am surprised to find this history here. It's amazing...
@@MushroomTherapy28 it's a beautiful place. There mountains are pink during the sunset...it's simply something wonderful and rare...try to search Rosengarten Mountains
@@ibrahimgoma7779 yes, it's true. He was a janpissary. Maybe from Balkan area. In my DNA I have 1% from balkan area and 34 from Greece. My mother side by father was half austrian and many people were blonde and with blue eyes. On her mother side instead many were dark like Mediterranean people. Curly black hair and dark eyes and dark skin.
No he was not a Turk. He was Janissary, i.e. a slave soldier, a Christian boy abducted by force from his family at age between 7 and 12. Turks were drafting boys from all Christian nations but with particular emphasis from Greeks, for multiple reasons. Most probably he was an ethnic Greek. If abducted at age 10,11,12 he still had memories of his family and his past life as a Christian and this is why he stayed with the Christians and integrated with them. His Greek ancestry could also explain why the Italian villagers did not see him as a stranger but rather as one of their own, Greeks look like Italians unlike Turks especially of those time who were still portraying Mongolic features. Turks and in general born-muslims looked down on Christians and were not at all thankful to Christian magnanimity, they rather interpreted it as weakness so had he been an ethnic Turk or a born-muslim he would have just thanked orally his saviours and would had left back wherever he called home in the Ottoman Empire. And most certainly he would had never denied his muslim faith, unlike quite a number of Janissaries who though trapped in that slavery were secretly remaining crypto-christians keeping hidden crosses on them. It may as well had been such a hidden cross that incited the people of that village to save him.
It is OK. Racial sitatus aren't a problem. Main point is being Muslim and having Ottoman culture which is have goal to spread Isla and his peace arround the world. So we are seeing one of their achievements on this video@@Fokas-n8t
@@Fokas-n8t so that changes nothing. I mean his origin. Those villagers still dresses like Turks and holding Turkish flag not Greek one. All you do is crying and that also changes nothing. History happened you can not do a thing about it 🤷🏻♂️
Exactly. Most of western turks heritage are from Balkans. And they don't look turkish. Like my family. We have Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian heritage. And my grandfather told that our great-great grandfather who lived maybe 400 years ago, was a jannisary who deserved a land in balkans after too many wars. And in balkans they always changed brides with local folk.
That happened more time than u would think! We had stories almost identical for A German mercenary, a French Knight, a spanish tercio , hungarians, A swede, English and some Americans.
Tek anladığım köylülerin kalbi temiz ve marhemetli olması. Japon köylelerde çıkan fırtınada batan Osmanlı gemisinden insanları kurtarmıştı.bizde karşılığında iran ırak savaşında,hiç bir devletin yardım edemediği hatta japon devletinin kendisi bile uçak gönderenediği,iranda mahsur kalan japonları kurtarmıştık.
today Italy and Turkey have very strong relations, I worked for Fincantieri back in 2007/8 in Tuzla for a Turkish projects, today, Leonardo is working with Turkish in the MELTEM3 project and Telespazio spa if developing GÖGTÜRK for Turkish satellite system! Türkiye defense Magazine
What a beautiful story and, as usual, one that I've never heard of nor have many other people until now. In this day of hatred, warfare and division, I can only say thanks for giving the world a good story like this one.
Do you know the history of the Janissary corps? They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
@@alexrenn2479 OFFCOURSE PUFFING WE KNOW MATE! Don't be daft! How can you keep a trained soldier with their Weapon in Army as a SLAVE!!! damn! The West write history and they are not going to exalt the OTTOMANS, DO THEY? I guess you hatred instinct to force to say that! not all of them Eastern European and The families were willing to hand in their Boys to Janissary's camp because they have benefited from state of Empire! They were very well paid their families exempted from taxation etc. Ans so many Generals (Pashas) were the janissaries and their home town or villages became well protected, well off, well educated, it was better than today's British Commonwealth Countries, NO COLONISING BUT SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND WEALTH. IF THEY DIDN'T, THE OTTOMAN WOULD BE SURVIVED AND LASTED 600 YEARS! THINK ABOUT! Today, Think about USA Black water, UK Gurkhas, French Legionaries, Russian Wagner etc the most signed up from different nations! In a war torn village if there are some kids alone because of their parents died or killed, not necessarily killed by soldiers, W HAT WOULD YOU DO MATE? LEAVE THEM ALONE BY THEMSELVES? BRING THEM DRESS THEM FEED THEM UNDER EMPIRES PROTECTION! FORCED TO BE SOLDIER??? HOW STUPID STATEMENT IS THAT?
@@alexrenn2479 +++++ PLUS THOSE NATIONS Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians ARE THE MOSTLY OTHODOX CRISTIANS ROBBED, PILLAGED BY CATHOLIC CRISTIANS ON THE WAY TO JERUSSELAM DURING THE SEVERAL CRUSADE CAMPAINING, LASTED 300 YEARS! DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Ona vergi denmiyor. Osmanlı'daki vergi sistemine bak, bir de Avrupa'dakine, anlarsın. Osmanlı her şeyi kayıt altına alır, vergi ise o kayıt altındaki veriler üzerinden hesap edilirdi. Avrupa'da ise kral şeyinin keyfine bir vergi belirler, elinde ne olup olmadığına bakmazdı. Buna da bu durumda vergi değil mafya haracı denir esasında.
Janissaries: The forced servitude of Christian slaves. They were mostly Eastern European and Balkan Slavic people taken from the families as a children to slavery forcing them into armed service. Slavic Christian boys between the ages of 12 and 20. The Ottomans later adapted this approach. The system of Janissaries is estimated to have started during the reign of sultan Murad I in 1363.
@@kazimierzlenarczyk9067I know that the elderly Catholic population in Poland had an antipathy towards the Turks. They even thought the Turks were Arabs. (Young Poles are not like that) There is serious racism in Poland. I'm not surprised by your message.
The ottonoobs were bad in every aspect possible the were weak and only counquered little balkan kingdoms and desert in the middle east they lost even with gigantic numbere advantage for example malta with 40.000 ottonoobs vs 9000 Christians or both Vienna battles they were corupt and the Sultan was very often only a puppet of nobles. They ensl@vd entire citys and stole childs of inocennt Christians. This "empire" was disgusting.
@@MushroomTherapy28Janissaries: The forced servitude of Balkan and Eastern European Slavic Christian slaves taken from the families as children for a slave soldier.The Prophet Muhammad denounced one of his companions in the story of the bird, “Who made that bird mourn the loss of its son … brought her son back to her”. If a small bird has the right of affection and assembly, then what about the person whom Allah created to be free and generous, to live with dignity, not to accept oppression or submissiveness?
@@MushroomTherapy28The Ottoman Empire exercised immoral acts in enslaving people and depriving children of their most basic rights to enjoy the protection of their fathers and mothers. This is considered one of the most heinous human crimes. The Janissary army considered these children as captives of the war that they fought with the Byzantine state and the Christian kingdoms in Eastern Europe. The matter has evolved into forcibly taking the boys to be a periodic tax that the state collects from the Christians in Eastern Europe, and it is called the Devşirme tax.
@kazimierzlenarczyk9067 Lol chill out dude. I wasn't the one who created the Janissary corps 😆 The history is full of cruelty but in this video the focus is on something quite different. Don't @ me please.
@MushroomTherapy28 This Janissary wasn't Turkish he was Christian boy from Greece or Balkans stolen from his parents. This is so ridiculous now the Turkish people are so proud of the slave soldiers.
The Italian ppl were TORTURED by the Saracen scourge… entire villages taken in to slavery… toughen up and stop being so silly and willing to believe what you see on the internet We are at war with these ppl - your ancestors count on you! Liberate CONSTANTINOPLE!!
Es gibt einen Osmanen, auch ein Einzelkämpfer, der ein Dorf in Österreich gerettet hat. Später waren Österreich-Ungarn, das Osmanische Reich und das Deutsche Reich verbündete. Auch in der Niederlande gibt es eine Geschichte. Sogar Irland hat man geholfen. Und was du vielleicht auch nicht wusstest, die Freiheitsstatue 🗽 in den USA, wurde damals für das Osmanische Reich konzipiert und dann etwas umgewandelt an die USA geschenkt. Das Osmanische Reich ist einfach ein großartiges Reich, gibt vieles Geschichten. 1299 gegründet, über 600 Jahre existiert, bis zum 1. Weltkrieg, so eine lange Geschichte.
I randomly came across this video and it was surprisingly wholesome. I don't know what to say. nods to fellow Turkish and Italian viewers cheers, I guess.
Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.
Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.
History should be honest and put into context. Do you know the history of the Janissary corps? They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
@@alexrenn2479 Ruslar Tatar hanlarının hepsini katletti ve sonra çocukları vaftiz edildi. tatar Hanları Ruslar bu dünya için daha değerli insanlar bizim yaşamamızın bir anlamı yok bizi öldürün ve çocuklarımızda iyi bir Hiristiyan olarak yaşasın Bizi boğazladıktan sonra ne olur onları alıp vaftiz edin dedi. Siz iyimisiz. Ortaçağda zaten bir avuç insan yaşıyor dünyada, Onlarda mevsimlerin tarım üretimini ne kadar dengeli olmasına, salgın hastalıkların Kem kendileri hemde çiftlik hayvanları üzerindeki etkilerine maruz kalıyorlardı. Ara sıra savaşlar ile köleleştirilip bir bir yerden bir yere satılıyorlardı. Sıradan insanlar muhtemel 50 li yaşları göremiyordu.
The janissaries. Their difference from other imperial corps were their immense training. They were chosen as a child and trained until their twenties and highly paid for their services. They were the bodyguards of the sultan and most fearsome unit in the empire.
@0815Catgus They were not kidnapped, the system of Janissary recruitment was known Devirşe where for every 40 christian households of the Ottoman Empire a single male boy was ought to be provided to be part of the Devirşe system to either be trained to become a Janissary or a beurocrat of the Empire.
@0815Catgus Would consider it kidnapping if considered a lot peasants gave out their children willingly due to life in Medieval and Early Modern periods sucking hence they wanted better lives for their children
Janissaries: The forced servitude of Christian slaves. They were mostly Eastern European and Balkan Slavic people taken from the families as a children to slavery forcing them into armed service. Slavic Christian boys between the ages of 12 and 20. The Ottomans later adapted this approach. The system of Janissaries is estimated to have started during the reign of sultan Murad I in 1363.
@@kazimierzlenarczyk9067 jannisseries were elite forces and their families were begging to soldiers "Took MY son." Because being a jannisserie is like the most honorable thing in that time and families couldn't afford to pay their needs . They were far more rich than the citizens, they were good looking, a lot of fun stuff that they can do. And they were all Muslims.
@bag3560 You are really brainwashed🤣🤣 yeah the Christian mother father was screaming take my 12 years old boy from us he doesn't need childhood and our love. Please brainwash my son to become Muslim Soldier drone🤣🤣🤣 something else are telling historical accountants🙄 The Ottoman Empire exercised immoral acts in enslaving people and depriving children of their most basic rights to enjoy the protection of their fathers and mothers. This is considered one of the most heinous human crimes. The Janissary army considered these children as captives of the war that they fought with the Byzantine state and the Christian kingdoms in Eastern Europe. The matter has evolved into forcibly taking the boys to be a periodic tax that the state collects from the Christians in Eastern Europe, and it is called the Devşirme tax.
@@kazimierzlenarczyk9067eee yeni çeriler Türk ailelere verilerek Türk dili ve kültürünü öğrenene kadar o ailelerde kaldı genetik olarak Türk olmasada kültür olarak her yeni çeri Türktür.
@@kazimierzlenarczyk9067 They still knew that they have been taken by Ottoman authorities as well. Yet majority of Janissaries didnt take any rebel action. On the other hand rebellions between janissaries were about salary, sieges and sultan's that they dont like.
I red this story years ago and knew about the Turkish village in Italy. But first time seen an animation video about it. Good job. Thanks for the information.
Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.
I wouldn’t say this is b/c of any bias (prejudicial or just in interest), b/c Evrpns were notoriously interested in stories-like we are today-so I’d put it down to the *lNTENTl0NALLY P00R EDVSYS.*
Janissaries were troops created from European christian boys (Caucasian)taken from their parents at early as age 7. Countries are Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria. My comment might not show up because this propaganda video clip might ban it. They were taken from their christian families as slaves, they were given ottoman names and through training and indoctrination they were made to forget who they were and who their parents were, and turned into ruthless soldiers cruel to their ethnic keen. Some of those slave boys were turned to become something else. There was nothing romantic or idealistic about ottoman occupation of Europe. Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, who do you think he learned the impaling from, where impaled people suffered agony for 3 days.
Do you know the history of the Janissary corps? They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
@@alexrenn2479when you can't feed your child somebody is going to put them in schools even became change to 2. Man of all nation. Do you know child death rate and rules of dont take brothers or only boy of house.
@@alexrenn2479bu doğru değil Yeni Çeriler paralı gönüllü askerlerdi! Osmanlının tek rehin aldığı savaş kalıntılarından olan askerlerdi onları da yetiştirip sarayda eğitimini veriyordu
Well researched even better presentation of the incredible story of Hasan ilturko of Moena. The humanity of the villagers in saving Hasan’s life without expecting anything in return is exceptional.
Distance from the gates of Vienna to Moena Italy is approx 670 Km… this guy was definitely off the grid. Maybe he was sent in a ship to Venice to enter Austria from the south ?
Lol, this kind of story is pretty old. Robinhood and how Sikhism formed is no different. Unfair Taxes in medieval times often led to peasants becoming warriors.
Alone on this one soldier is shown what the Ottomans fought for. Justice for all, no matter which ethnicity a human belongs to..greetings to my italian homies
@@puzzled012 First learn the truth before you say something wrong about devşirme. The families themselves have handed over their children. And that wasn't easy. There were many rules to be allowed to hand over his child. It makes no sense to kidnap children and then train them to be elite soldiers. That would be suicide 😂 Ottomans didn't destroy any churches. Not even changed the artworks in it. Other religions destroy mosques. They allowed everyone to keep their language and religion after a conquering. And if this weren't like that, half of Europe, half Asia and half Africa would speak Turkish today Please learn true history 🙂
@@puzzled012christians were voluntarily handing over their sons, from being nothing these kids could become governors of their own countries, prime minister of the ottoman empire, many other high official ranks, lowest possibility was to become the most elite soldier in the world. Theres rules for devsirme system, you had to have at least 2 sons, age requirements etc. Do you even know what jizya is ? Who payed jizya? How jizya is only a small percentage of what muslims payed as tax. Did you know jizya is returned when it was useless ? Do you know how many churches were converted? Main one was hagi sofia and that was thru sword rights to symbolise victory over christianity after conquering Constantinople. Rest of them are abandoned churches, you should be happy its put back to use for worshipping god again. Dont fill your heart with hatred because of your ignorance on subjects
Uhh, have you read ottoman history? You know they committed a brutal genocide against the Armenians, Pontic Greeks, and Assyrians. Yeah the majority of their history they were okay, but that’s like being the tallest person in a little person convention, it’s a very low bar to clear. All historical evidence points towards your narrative that a genocide didn’t happen being as realistic as a book written by the John Birch Society and Daughters of the confederacy.
Greek Historian Dimitri Kitsikis in his book Turco-Greek Empire, states that many Christian families were willing to comply with this system because it offered a possibility of social advancement. Conscripts could one day become Janissary colonels, statesmen who might one day return to their home region as governors, or even Grand Viziers or Beylerbeys (governor generals).
They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
Teaching others how to rise up against their rulers is the most turkish thing I have ever heard. Hundreds and hundreds of years of rebellions against the ottoman sultan.
A Janissary is very likely to be captured as a child from Serbia, Bosnia or Bulgaria, brought up as an elite Ottoman soldier, not knowing, he was stolen from Christian family. Janissaries were stolen from their parents. That's why the Turks are still hated in all of Balkan region.
In Europe, a Turk was generally synonymous with someone rebellious, wild and against the current order. In Poland, there was a whole youth movement that dressed as Ottomans to protest the Catholics.
@@-FKN-really now? How ironic, the first countries to abolish slavery were christians, to be more precise chatolics. Meanwhile ottomans commited tons of slavery, heck they even stole Christians childs in the balkan from their mothers to train them in the military. In modern day age the practice of stealing children and erasing their culture of origins is called cultural genocides and the Ottomans were based on that.
The Janissaries were Balkan Christian kids, taken by force away from their parents and converted to Islam by the Ottomans. I have nothing against the Turks, but let's state the obvious, the guy from the story wasn't a Turk by birth. That's why he spoke so many languages and he felt at home among the Italians.
Yes, we notice that, the many wars and dictatures caused since the origins of this ideology, the "prophet" himself made a lot of wars and victims. And how many people killed, expecially women... by their own family. Now also in Europe, islamic families kill the daughter for stupid reasons, as if they don't marry who family wants, if they don't dress like slaves...
I advise you guys to read life of Prophet Muhammad. Despite he was the leader of Islamic state he always obeyed the decision of the board of state. Also Islam is a religion that all of the its followers equal in front of God. That means all of the followers have equal rights. There is no social classes. I accept that after The Prophet there are many Muslim Countries ruled by obsessive powers, but that is not Islam teaches us.
@@gaffuraltntop8723 also christianity does not have classes. So this didn't make the turco of Moena different than other people just because of the religion. So i don't understand your first comment. Of course classes are in every society of every time
Janissary had to be not just a good fighter, but educated, multi-lingual, and handsome. It is a pretty extraordinary history. They were targeted on being able to kill 10 men in armed combat and elite at archery.
Do you know the history of the Janissary corps? They were all Christian children forcefully taken and converted to Islam to serve in the Ottoman Empire. The best and brightest taken away from their grieving families. All non-Moslem groups of the former Ottoman Empire remember this period in history with much sadness and horror. Who would want their children stolen from them? Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian Albanians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs and Ukrainians were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army...source: wikipedia
@@Barbaros108 This is what someone else here wrote: QUOTE - The Janissaries are fed by what is known as the Devşirme “Boys’ Tax”, where the Ottomans issued a law according to which one-fifth of the children of each occupied city were taken and included in the Ottoman army without a legitimate right allowing this act in Islam.The Ottoman Empire exercised immoral acts in enslaving people and depriving children of their most basic rights to enjoy the protection of their fathers and mothers. This is considered one of the most heinous human crimes. The Janissary army considered these children as captives of the war that they fought with the Byzantine state and the Christian kingdoms in Eastern Europe. The matter has evolved into forcibly taking the boys to be a periodic tax that the state collects from the Christians in Eastern Europe, and it is called the Devşirme tax, - END QUOTE
