Column urges Turkey to show interest in Syrian Turks.(Column)

Text of report by Turkish newspaper Sabah website on 19 February

[Column by Hasan Celal Guzel: "The Turkomans of Syria"]

Dear readers, I am going, in this Sunday chat, to speak to you of the Turkomans of Syria. The Turkish Nation, with its history going back thousands of years, of which it can be proud, is unfortunately a nation that has been subjected to the most tyranny, injustice, and massacres. At the beginning of the last century, following the fall of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had possessed a gigantic extent of 6.5 million square kilometres, no one stood up for its Muslim Turkish subjects, in particular, and millions of our people lost their lives in …