Blockchain Game: DFSocial Gaming (DFSOCIAL)

14 May 2021https://dfsocial.com/It aims to bring together the services of decentralized finance protocols and gaming. Long-term vision is a gaming platform with a mobile app, so holders can earn gaming rewards.

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Blockchain Game: Waxe (WAXE)

14 May 2021Waxe.ioMost convenient way to create, buy, sell, and trade virtual items to anyone, anywhere in the world.

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Blockchain Game: AirCoins (AIRX)

14 May 2021Aircoins.ioAircoins describes itself as an augmented reality, cryptocurrency gaming, and marketing App available on Android and IOS App stores. Users can hunt for and collect cryptocurrencies within an interactive AR environment based on geolocation similar to Pokemon Go. The Aircoins team claims to have partnered with over 25 crypto projects, acquiring 27,000 active users with over 13M coins collected within the platform.

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Persian role in Seljuk Empire

26 May 2021Persian role in the Seljukid empire is vastly overestimated. This bias began with the Western research back in the Oriental Institute during colonial times, which touched only the sedentary part of the state, mainly skipping the role of nomadic Turks.As such, they started to claim that the conquest of Anatolia by Turks was the result of Seljuk sultans protecting their sedentary Muslim population. Because it was an Iranian empire of Turkic origin.Such a sizeable negative view of Turks by Westerners is primarily related to the sources that they were using for it. Both Arabic and Persian scripts were differentiating the ruling dynasty and their kingship. While praising the role of Seljuks in the Islamic political scene, they were highly damaging to the nomadic Turks, often mentioning them as the plunderers of the cities. The medieval sources, especially Persian ones, in neglecting the view of Turks, are criticized by Edmund Bosworth. He mentioned that writing Turkish titles and names in scripts is largely hard to read, as those people were not interested in them. As such, it is hard to differentiate the characters from titles of Turks. Cambridge History of Iran also mentions it. That starts to criticize the “persianate” face of the state. Or the idea that Anatolia is a little Persia (It also goes against the thesis that Seljuks pushed Turkmens from Iran to Anatolia to avoid the sedentarization; why do Seljuks come to Anatolia themselves, bringing Persians then follow after Turkmens). Seljuks, in fact, were not Persiniate as people think, as, for example, by 1100, the Tughril ibn MalikShah was still living in the tents, not in the cities. Their titles and institutions, such as Khatun or Atabeg, are still borrowed from the old Oghuz Yabgu state and used in the Seljuk Empire.  As a political power, Seljuks were using the Turkish nomadic emblem Tughra (a double head bird), which also shows that they were keeping their nomadic culture strongly. Seljuk's political ideology was based mainly on the Nomadic tradition, not on the Iranian tradition. Unlike the Persian tradition, where it tends to have a single authority, nomads declare the power as the belonging of the clan, where the elder is ruling as the leader. This Nomadic tradition was still alive, as besides the significant branch of Seljuks, we also had several branches living in various areas (Seljuks of Rum, Seljuks of Syria, Seljuks of Iraq, Seljuks of Kerman).The last of the Great Seljukids, Sultan Sanjar, also used this Turkmen tradition to legitimate his power over his young nephew Muhammad as the head of the Great Seljuks. This concludes that the Seljuk Empire was an empire of Muslim dwellers and a nomadic empire. Using the Tughra, Turkish titles in the state, and following Turkmens till Anatolia brings us to the role of nomads. Seljuks, for rising to power, were obligated to Oghuz-Turkmen nomads. As such, in the Seljuk empire, they played a unique role. Their role was also mentioned by Nizam al-Mulk in his Siyasat-name to remember the role of Turkmens and act with them with special care. It is also mentioned in the book dedicated to Sultan Sanjar by the grandson of Nizam al Mulk, as in the bachelor letters of Sanjar translated by David Durand. With such a particular role that none of the other ethnic groups in the empire had, we can conclude that the empire was a Turkmen empire. P.S. When Seljuks removed the special status of Turkmens by listening to their Ghulams and Persian viziers, Turkmens' status was revoked, which was the primary factor in the decline of the Seljuk empire.

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So called Armenian Genocide

20 May 2021There is no proof that the Turkish government ordered a systematic extermination of some group of people based on nationality or religion. All the sources claiming that there was an order are nonprovable; only someone heard that Enver Pasha did it in private talk. Who was this guy who told it? The Western sources don't want to show any argument supporting their words. Besides that, some information makes me suspicious about this situation. some sources quoted that Hitler was inspired by the Armenian genocide and quoted it for the holocaust. Recently, it was proven to be wrong.There is a famous picture on the internet where the officer is teasing kids with bread while they are starving. First, it was released by the Oxford Book regarding the Genocide. Later, it was proven that the picture was photoshopped, and Oxford publishers took it from some random Armenian guy.The first two countries that acknowledged the genocide are South America’s little countries, not the major powers of the west. Certainly, someone pushed those countries to accept it. After three points, I feel like the Armenian Genocide is a political movement rather than a historical thing pushed to the world by the Armenian Diaspora. 

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