OOC: High Alert =/= mobalization. My people are still at home, it is simply the regular armed forces that are on guard. Also, I like to play true to character, so if I switch thoughts and feelings following the election, I am playing to character.
Turks, we have been stabbed in the back. The Armenians, who we have normalized relations with, have sided with xenophobic hate and rhetoric over mutual passion for democracy, freedom and liberty. The previous government may have been rude to the Armenians and unrightfully called them Russian puppets. I see now that this wrong, as it is not the Russians that are the puppeteers, but the Greeks are.
The Armenians are not a true Republic, but an oligarchy led by a dictator. They oppress the Kurdish and Georgian peoples that occupy their country. They lack both a constitution and a simple bill of rights. Diplomats were in the midst of begining with the Armenian government, but this must sadly come to an end as the Armenians have clearly shown their favour is with the hate of Greece rather the logic of civilized countries.
Armenian naval ships are now banned from the Bosphorus along with Greek Naval Ships
Haşim Çiçek - President of the Turkish Free State
*Speech to the Second Turkish Parliament - March 23rd, 1915*
Men of the Parliament. I am sad to say that 462 years later, the tables have turned. The Grecian hordes wait at our borders, to the East and to the West. The wait for us to make one single mistake on the world stage before tearing our young and beautiful country to shreds. The Greek Prime Minister talks wildly of "uniting" historic Byzantine pronvinces while the Armenian despot looks upon the rest of Anatolia.
I will talk to you honestly, internationally no one cares about the Balkans and Middle East. Russia is an unknown entity to our republic and our historic allies of the UK and France are busy dealing with the German Kaiser. But I will say this, we will survive. We may be a nation under seige, but we shall fight in the hills and the valleys. We shall fight on the beaches and in the streets. We shall defend our honour, our liberty, and our freedoms from anyone that strives to remove them from us.
I ask you all to go home tonight and hugs your sons and daughters, and kiss your wife. But we will return tomorrow, and the next day, and every day afterwords. No despot will stop us from doing our duty as elected officals and governing our nation. Angry hordes will not stop us from supporting the average Turkish citizen to the utmost of our ability.
And by Allah, and every other god that is believed by the people of our fair nation, I will defend both the flag and that piece of paper that hangs above the speaker's chair. That piece of paper shows how far we have come from a few short years ago. If I have to die for that Consititution and that Bill of Rights, so be it. I shall die free, with happiness in my heart and peace in my soul!
- Haşim Çiçek - President of the Turkish Free State
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