Papa Leone visitò la Tomba di Atatürk

According to  R.J. Rummel’s “[Statistics on Demicide](https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP5.HTM)”:

>Finally, I pull together the various totals (lines 431 to 434). In this post-WWI period (1919-1923) the Turks killed overall probably 878,000 Armenians and Greeks, or at least 665,000 and even perhaps as many as 1,156,000 in total (line 435). Including war-dead, 1,031,000 Turkish citizens or those under Turkey’s rule or fleeing from it died during these years (line 436). [Table: [https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB5.1A.GIF](https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB5.1A.GIF)]

R.J. Rummel consolidated the various estimates of those killed under Kemalist Turkey (1919-1923). This includes the Burning of Smyrna in the Greco-Turkish War (’19-’22), the reprisal killings of Armenian civilians in Marash and Hadjin in the Franco-Turkish War, the killings of Armenian civlians in the Turkish-Armenian War (1920) in Kars and Alexandropol, and the widespread starvation in the Armenian Republic due to stolen agricultural equipment and humanitarian supplies across 200 villages. The population of the First Armenian Republic went from 961,677 in 1919 to 720,000 in 1920.

In the Greco-Turkish War alone, R.J. Rummel estimates that the Nationalists Turks **murdered ~264,000 Greek civilians** (line 382; mid-value), whilst the Greek Army **murdered ~20,000 Muslim civilians** (lines 292, 297). Disproportionate civilian killings is perennial trait.

What the Committee of Union and Progress started with the Late Ottoman Genocides (1914-1918), Ataturk continued (1919-1923). If there is a hell, Ataturk would be roasting there like an eternally rotating doner kebab.

Did he study history? Ataturk wasn’t exactly a saint…

The level of Sevres syndrome among some Turks is honestly embarrassing. They seriously believe the Pope is coming to divide the country or launch a new crusade. It’s wild how detached from reality Turkish nationalists can be.