I don’t know if it’s a quirk of my profession today, the national anthems of the countries were on my radar. I thought I’d do some research and wanted to share with you some of the results that astonished me.
How many people know the Greek national anthem?
Deep ocean,
That’s how I want you seed.
And drown in its wave,
Every Turkish seed.
Can you imagine? These disgusting words are used in the national anthem of a country. The Turkish hostility in the Greek anthem is not to be ignored or ignored. The lyrics of the Greek anthem are based on a poem written by a Greek named Solomos in 1823, inspired by the Peloponnese Revolt. In this so-called poem, it is a poem about how the Greeks massacred and burned more than 30 thousand Turks in Tripolice, regardless of women, children or babies, during the Peloponnesian Revolt that the Greeks started against the Turks. This poem, written with a racist mentality and smelling of hatred and enmity, continues as follows:
Look at those hopeless hands,
How they reap their lives,
It falls to the ground,
hands, feet, heads,
Palas and swords,
With all scattered brains,
And with their split skulls,
Shouts that awaken desires,
The dogs were running low,
And they were shouting Allah, Allah!
But the lips of the Christians were more correct.
They were shouting Fire!
What Should the Philosophy of National Anthems Be?
National anthems are among the most important symbols and values of a country, a nation. It acts as a glue that binds the nation together. For this reason, like every symbol, the depth of the culture and civilization of that nation; It reflects the character and ideals of the nation and gives the main idea about that nation. National anthems are also among the important building blocks of nation-building processes.
National anthems express the consciousness of being a “nation” shaped according to the conditions of the people who founded that country, the philosophy of being a state, the perspective of the society to other societies and the world, and similar issues.
What Does the Greek National Anthem Reveal Apart from Anger and Hatred?
Strangely enough, Turkish people, unlike average Greek citizens, do not harbor any hostility towards Greek society. Our people ignore the hostility and hatred that the Greeks show towards the Turks. In fact, some of us like Athenian democracy, Greek music, Greek language, etc. It considers it ingenuity to constantly reference the Greeks for the areas. Some take things even further: Despite the Greek massacres throughout history, their daring to invade Western Anatolia in 1919, and their provocations that continue even today, they even attempt to take an attitude that does not give the Turks their due in almost every issue. When the arrogant people like Fesli Kadir, who joined these in a choir, are added to the people who insulted Atatürk, who founded this country, and especially when they saw that they went out of their way to say, “If the Greeks had won!”, “Stop! The hand is insaf” is coming. Do they not look at the blasphemy called the Greek Anthem? If they don’t have self-respect, do they also have no respect for the countless Turkish people who gave their lives with the Greek atrocities in Turkish history?
The Greece they admire and the national anthem of this state smell of barbarism, not civilization, nothing more. It is obvious that the words of the Greek Anthem, which has not been brought to the agenda in our country until today, are generally not known by the Turks of Thessaloniki and Cretans, who were forced to immigrate from the lands of today’s Greece, as well as the Rumelian immigrants from Greece.
Why Are The Lyrics Of The Greek National Anthem Important?
The lyrics of the Greek national anthem are important. It is important for Turkishness. It is necessary to know these words in order to better understand the meaning of the War of Independence and to better understand the suffering of the Turks who fled from the Greek and its supporter European imperialism. It should be seen that this anthem, which contains the roots of Turkish hostility in today’s Greek society, plays a role in preventing Turkish-Greek friendship.
We are talking about a Greek Nation whose minds have been filled with hostility towards Turks since their childhood, and whose brains have been formatted with this anthem for over 150 years. The Greek generations, who were brought up in an education system in which this anthem is taught and memorized in Greek schools, make up today’s Greek society.
It has become an important national identity and character for the Greek society to hold grudges and hatred towards the Turks, to use symbols like the Greek anthem to achieve this, and to brainwash young people with hostility towards Turks.
This anthem has also been accepted as the national anthem of the Greek Cypriot side since 1966. Wouldn’t it be enough to read the words of this anthem even once for those who tell tales of a “solution” and “one state on the island” in Cyprus to realize that the same seeds of hatred are actually planted among the Greek Cypriots?
Today, I can better understand and comprehend the statement of the President of Olympiacos, “This victory we have won in our city (Istanbul) is very meaningful”, after the Olimpiakos match that Fenerbahce faced two years ago! If this is what the president of a Greek football club has in mind, who knows what the rulers and soldiers of the Greek state might have in mind.
The Importance of Our National Pledge:
What did we do when the Greeks were proud of the Greek National Anthem, which instilled hatred and grudge against the Turks from the cradle to the grave? Student oath or oath, we shelved the oath of the Turk, which was taught to students with a ceremony every morning between 1933 and 2013 in primary schools in Turkey. What is the benefit for us that this oath, which has been taught in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus since its establishment, is gradually weakening in our country, especially the consciousness of Turkishness instilled in our offspring? Shouldn’t the Turkish Student Oath, which is not hostile to any nation, especially the Greeks, be taught again in schools, and it should be one of the common desires and unchangeable values of every Turk who considers this homeland as their homeland?
Let’s remember and reflect on the words of our oath (the 1997 version), please. Let’s read our oath, especially by remembering the words of the Greek National Anthem. Which is a more civilized statement?
I am Turkish, I am correct, I am hardworking,
My principle is to protect my little ones, to respect my elders, to love my country and my nation more than myself.
My ideal: to rise is to go forward.
O Great Ataturk!
I swear that I will walk without stopping on the path you have opened, to the goal you have shown.
Let my existence be a gift to the Turkish existence.
How happy is the one who says I am a Turk!
Conclusion:
My aim with this article is not to cause Turkish-Greek hostility or to encourage the Turkish side to adopt a nonsense similar to what the Greeks did. However, I think that the words of the Greek National Anthem should be known, and the deep desire of the Greeks who want to be humiliated in this anthem and want Turkishness to disappear should be felt. If this anthem is not known, Turks must first see that the romantic Turkish-Greek friendship rhetoric will not go anywhere. If the Greeks If we want to make friends with Turks and meet with the fact that forgetting the pains of history mutually will serve the higher interests of both communities, read the words in the Greek Anthem objectively and say, “What are we doing in this age, with this mentality!” Don’t you think they should ask themselves?
Lyrics of the Greek National Anthem:
Deep ocean, that’s how I wish you were humming.
And let every Turkish seed drown in its wave.
Why did he slow down into combat for a moment?
Why has the blood spilled decreased?
Both belts and swords
To the scattered brains,
To skulls ripped open,
It’s smeared with twitching internal organs
the dogs were running low
And they were shouting God, God!
But the lips of the Christians were more true
They were shouting fire!
They were fighting like lions.
Always fire! they were shouting.
And the bastards were dying,
Shout out to God.
Their dirty blood has become a river
Flowing in the plain
Innocent herbs instead of water
drinking blood
The bravest were shaken
with blind steps
They were expelled from Corinth.
They hid and fled.
Death sends its angel,
Filled with famine and disease,
Skeleton-like shapes
They walk side by side.
