AI Bing Sings a False Tune

By Jirair Tutunjian

 

So you thought the great architect Mimar Sinan was Armenian.

Where did you get that idea?

How wrong can you be?

Let usher in AI Bing to bury the ethnocentric Armenian propaganda which has misled you for so long.

The all-knowing Bing says Sinan could have been Greek or Albanian or Jewish or Muslim Turk or Christian Turk or Bulgarian. Why not Christian Kurd or Alevi Yezidi?

Bing says Sinan could have been Greek because lots of Greeks lived in the Kayseri region where Sinan was born. Sounds pretty definite that Sinan’s last name probably Sinanoglu or Sinanopulos.

But then Bing suddenly turns uncertain. It proposes that Sinan could have been Albanian or Bulgarian. It doesn’t bother to offer words to prove its assertion.

Then, like a bee flying from a pansy to a rose to a carnation, Bing proposes Sinan could also have been Jewish although books listing Jewish greats assiduously neglect to mention that Sinan was Jewish. No information whether he was a member of the Sephardi or Ashkenazi division.

But ridiculous Bing hasn’t finished its lunatic assertions. Perhaps to be on the safe side, Bing states Sinan could have been of mixed Armenian and Greek blood. Bing obviously is unaware that both people believe outside their ethnic group.

Bing then says “various sources suggest that his [Sinan’s] background includes elements of Armenian heritage.” Pray tell us what are the Armenian elements? Did Sinan’s mother bake Armenian lavash bread?

We know that when the sultan was planning to exile members of several non-Turkish communities to Cyprus, Sinan asked the sultan not to send his parents to the Mediterranean island. This, according to all-knowing Bing “supports the claim of his Armenian or Greek background.

Bing says Sinan converted to Islam because of the devshirme system. It sounds as if young Sinan joined the Ottoman YMCA. No word that for hundreds of years strong or good-looking Christian boys were taken forcibly from their parents by the Ottoman authorities and Islamized-Turkified. No word that Christian boys were recruited into the Janissary military order and became some of the most vicious Ottoman soldiers.

Another booboo by asexual AI Bing: It says Sinan came from a Christian Greek or Christian Armenian family. As opposed to being from a Muslim Greek or Alevi Armenian family?

But Bing is not finished with the supposed Greek background of Sinan. It says Sinan came from a village of people who had family ties to Greeks. It then says that the allegation that Sinan’s parents were Armenian “remains unproven.”

“Unproven” because those august , all-knowing Western sources (Wikipedia, Britannica, 5PillarsUK) don’t believe Sinan was Armenian. Case closed.

If the West says: “It ain’t so…it means it ain’t so.” In italics.

Bing proves yet again that it’s a bad joke when it alleges, without providing evidence, that Sinan could have been Jewish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Turkish…