“I am the Istanbul of targets; the Ankara of targets. Yet I am standing my ground like Izmir stands by the cerulean blue of the Aegean. These charges are false; as false, uncaring, unmotivated and destructive as Porphyrios himself, the Leviathan who terrorized the Bosphorus, the East River of Turkey

This is my Great Fire of Smyrna, but, unlike that great event when undesirables were purged, a virtuous man is persecuted

You can't spell "Constantinople" without N-O-P-E !

Brilliant, gotta say. Kudos!

now, hear my words, they will find me. they will find me next to the Medusa's head in the Basilica Cistern, looking at her Alive as ever, mumbling the Truth... they will find me in the shores of Lycia or in the wrecked Byzantium ships under the Bosphorus, Right as ever.

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"Why did Eric Adams get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks!"

If they can go after Cyrus the Great they can go after YOU!

these bazaar charges are Istanbullshit, as I would never Selçuk my office's powers, even when I was a topkapitan in the NYpide.