Dear Cynaegeirus,

I saw that picture, and I feel sorry for it.

Many bloody events, civil wars, occupations, cooperation with invaders, ethnic cleansing, and massacres that took place during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire created hostility among the nations that remained from the Ottoman Empire.

In my opinion, all these bloody and tragic events are behind us.

I think it is necessary to turn a clean page and continue our work and life in peace, with good neighborly relations.

Unfortunately, all nations that are Ottoman heirs are much more diligent in destroying the traces of the empire from which they broke away on their own lands.

It is necessary to evaluate the aggression against the religious values of the people who moved away from Anatolia due to the war or other reasons in this context.

Frankly, it is a small miracle that these religious structures, which have no congregation left, have survived to this day in this form.

And it was saved from complete destruction by the efforts of our country’s citizens who have common sense against everything.

On the other hand, don’t you think it is strange that almost not a single Ottoman structure has been preserved in the lands of the Ottoman heir countries outside our country?

What disturbs us the most are the not-so-well-intentioned efforts to extract title deeds from history, to claim rights to our lands, and to demand compensation and apology based on these historical monuments that were saved and survived with good intentions.

Frankly, as in history, we know those who invited imperial powers from outside the region to subjugate us and to tear off more.

And on the basis of all this, it is not useful at all to use historical works that we carefully try to keep alive as justification.

Creating hostility from history is not beneficial to efforts to live together in peace.

I'm not saying we should forget everything.

But I say there is no need to hold each other accountable anymore, to force each other to apologize, to make each other submit, or to try to get more.

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While there were mosques in many parts of Ottoman Greece,

According to Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi's findings;

2,336 Ottoman mosques and masjids,

Today, there are 300  in Western Thrace, where Muslims are concentrated in Greece.

and there are 3 official mosques and masjids on the islands of Rhodes and Kos,

Construction and repair of new mosques are subject to permission.

The situation is the same in other Balkan countries.

Also in the historical Revan Khanate

The Revan Khanate (Persian: خانات ایروان / Khānāt-e Īrvān or Čoḵūr Saʿd;[1] Azerbaijani: Irəvan Khanate) was a khanate that was based in the present-day city of Yerevan as its capital and operated between 1747 and 1828.

All kinds of historical monuments that are not large enough, magnificent or considered historical have been destroyed.

This is exactly why it would be extremely meaningless for anyone to hold us accountable..

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