Attacks on Christians increasing.

[rogerredy]

Actually, The Turks were relatively peaceful conquestors. They regaurded people of scripture (christians/jews) as "dhimmi" or, protected people. The Turks allowed the christians on anatolia and throughout the middle east to practice and worship in relative peace. The conquest of anatolia, which caused the byzantine empire to request assitance against the seljuk Turks. The Crusades in my mind weren't two barbaric states butting heads, but rather a desperate nation using the guise of religion to reclaim lost territory

You need to complete your knowledge gap, there were plenty of pogroms and murders of jews in large numbers in turkish history...

 

[Andalublue]

You need to complete your knowledge gap, there were plenty of pogroms and murders of jews in large numbers in turkish history...

You'd better provide the links so we can check. I'm not denying it, but sceptical. Especially as the Ottoman Empire was the refuge that vast numbers of expelled Sephardi Jews fled to after their expulsion from Spain in the late-15th and early-16th centuries. Turkey to this day has a very large and well-integrated Jewish population. Compare Ottoman treatment of Jews with modern standards and they appear prejudiced and oppressive. Compare them to the contemporary standards of Europe and they appear as the most enlightened and pluralistic polity of their age, by quite a distance.