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If you could nuke 1 city, which would it be?

I would nuke Istanbul. I'm petty that way.
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SW-User
Why Istanbul though?馃 There are many countries/nations I'm really not a fan of but I wouldn't nuke any city.
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User The Turks murdered my family.
SW-User
@Arzawa Same. Well...my ancestors in my case so...I don't know, I don't like to be the one living in the past.
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User I'll feel better when Constantinople is restored.
SW-User
@Arzawa...are you Greek?馃
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User Yes. Anatolian Greek.
SW-User
@Arzawa And where do you live?
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User USA. You?
SW-User
@Arzawa Exactly... So, as a Greek who actually lives in Greece, I get frustrated every time I hear another Greek still dwelling so much on the past.
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User We dwell on the past because of what the turks refuse to recognize. You can sit happily in Hellas. Anatolian populations were exterminated. Our villages were burned. Our history erased. Greeks from Greece are not the same as Anatolian Greeks. During the early 1900s during the genocides, my family fled to Lebanon and Cyprus. From there, the Americas. It is easy for you to be frustrated. You have a homeland. You have a place to point to to say "that's where my people are from".
SW-User
@Arzawa ...my grandma's family came from Anatolia and my grandpa's from Russia. Both trying not to get kilked by Turks. But all this hate only causes problems to us still living here.
Arzawa31-35, M
@SW-User I don't know. It feels like you guys ignore us. I understand why. You want better political and economic relations with your neighbor. For a lot of us though, like the Armenians, our ethnic identity is tied to the genocide.

I went to a greek festival here in the US on the anniversary of the Pontic genocide and they didn't know what Pontus was. It enraged me. So much of what is greek has been forgotten.
SW-User
@Arzawa No one ignores you and there are people over here who would praise you right now. What I'm saying is that more hate is the last thing we need at this point. Yes, fight for our rights and the Turks must finally accept and admit that the genocide was real but we can't keep hating each other. And I'm talking both about Greeks and Turks