How ottoman turks created Jannisary slaves out of Christian children As described, they imposed a blood tax on Christians and especially the Greeks who kept fighting until the very end. The taking of Christian boys through the Devshirme, practice...
...d by the Ottomans roughly from the late 14th to the 17th century. Greek territories (especially Macedonia, Epirus, Péloponnèse, Thessaly, Thrace, and parts of Central #Greece) were among the areas where the levy was carried out. It is important to note that it was not usually random kidnapping. It was a state-administered levy, organized through their local enforcers. Every child would be beaten and raped to submission; but the strongest ones - the boys that resisted even that torture were...
... submitted to even worse trials. These stories are are well known even though anecdotal; they would put the boys in dungeons (usually holes in the ground) and they would starve them to submission. When they heard the boys praying to Christ for salvation they would beat them; this would be followed by prompts to pray to the muslim god for salvation. If the kids accepted it, they would feed them as retribution. Imagine this conditioning for weeks or months, producing monsters full of hate. H...
...ate that would be Weaponized against their own people later. t.me/