YPJ Information Office<p>With the hashtag &quot;<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectAtaturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RespectAtaturk</span></a>&quot; trending on Twitter, we recommend our article on the impact of 100 years of the Treaty of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lausanne" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lausanne</span></a></p><p>📢 &quot;In order to lay the foundation for the construction of the Turkish nation-state, it was necessary at the very beginning to exterminate populations of different religion, culture, and ethnicity from the state one.&quot;</p><p>📢 &quot;Turkish nationalist movements, led by the Young Turks to which Mustafa Kemal belonged, had the goal of building a nation-state like those in Europe. In the wake of this idea of an ethnically homogeneous territory, between 1915 and 1919 the Ottoman Empire carried out genocides against at least 3 different peoples&quot;</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://ypj-info.org/inside-the-ypj/100-years-since-lausanne-100-years-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ypj-info.org/inside-the-ypj/10</span><span class="invisible">0-years-since-lausanne-100-years-of-resistance/</span></a></p>