For Immediate Release –March 18th,
2015
Today, exactly 189 years ago, on March
18th, 1826 a small group of brave Romaic Revolutionaries, led by Vasos
Mavrovouniotis attempted to spread the Hellenic Revolution to Ottoman-occupied
Coele-Syria. Although unsuccessful, their heroic attempt to incite the Rûm of
the Levant lives on as a testament that the Rûm of Europe and those of the
Levant were and still are one people.
According to then-British Consul John
Barker, stationed in Aleppo, in a memo to British Ambassador Stratford Canning,
in Constantinople. The Revolutionaries were thwarted by a local Mufti and a
hastily arranged defense force. Although initially repelled, the Romaic heroes
did manage to hold on to a small portion of the city near the seashore in an
area inhabited by local Rûm. During which they appealed to the Rûm “to rise up
and join them”, and even sent an invitation to the chief of the local Druzes to
also join the Revolution.
Therefore, we at Operation Antioch ask all
Levantine Rûm to mark March 18th on their calendars as a national holiday for
all Levantine Rûm. March 18th, stands as a day in which the Levantine Rûm were
given a choice, a choice between freedom or slavery. Unfortunately, in 1826, we
chose slavery. Today, in 2015, we are faced with another choice, a choice
between freedom or death. It is, therefore, on this day that we, Operation
Antioch, call on the International Community to create a Rûm Safe Haven in
war-torn Syria. In order to prevent the mass exodus of Syrian Rûm from their
indigenous motherland.
READ OPERATION ANTIOCH’S PROPOSAL FOR A
SAFE HAVEN HERE
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http://www.facebook.com/operationantioch
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For more information on what is happening to the ethnic Greeks of the Levant and what you can do,
Visit our blog at http://operationantioch.blogspot.com
Learn more about the organizers of Operation Antioch
http://daimonesofhellenism.blogspot.com
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For more information on what is happening to the ethnic Greeks of the Levant and what you can do,
Visit our blog at http://operationantioch.blogspot.com
Learn more about the organizers of Operation Antioch
http://daimonesofhellenism.blogspot.com
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