Isn't it ironic that the official website of Valérie Boyer, the sponsor of the latest anti-democratic bill in France, was being hacked twice today, as a southeastern Turkish city was celebrating the 90th anniversary of its liberation from the French occupation.
The city, which was occupied by France right after the World War I, was named Antep. The French force was mainly consisted of Armenian legionnaires, who massacred and insulted the population of this overwhelmingly Turkish city. The resistance kicked out the occupiers soon, triggering the Turkish Independence War on a national scale. After the Republic of Turkey was founded, the city was renamed as Gaziantep (Antep the War Veteran) by the Turkish parliament.
The first Turkish hacker who put a message on Boyer's website was mentioning this occupation and condemning the "hypocrisy" of the French parliament. "We know that the Armenians in Turkey are not ethnocentric hate-mongers like the diaspora Armenians. However, the real miserable are the French politicians who are violating the truth for sake of votes," the message was reading.
I should admit that I don't like politics at all. Sometimes I ask myself: Why are we accusing the French politicians while it is obvious that politics, itself, is about lies and manipulations? Then I shake myself and realize once again that the pursuit of truth may be tiresome, but it is good for our common conscious.
Anyway, let's forget the crises now: I would like to say "Merry Christmas" to my Christian friends and tell them that Turks will be so happy to host them next Christmas in Demre, the one and only home of Saint Nicholas, as a New York Times ad tells today:
