The relations of the Turks with History are at best highly selective. The people who have stained their hands with blood even more than the Germans during their historical course have the audacity and speak of the massacre of the Turks in Tripolitsa during the liberation of the city from the Greek revolutionaries in 1821. In fact, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a relevant announcement characterizing the whole issue as a "black mark in History".
In this note we will not talk about Pontians and other Asia Minor Greeks, about Armenians, about Assyrians, about a world and a people that fell by the Turkish knife. We will only refer to the before and then events. Let us first see if the Greeks killed the Turks in Tripolitsa. The answer is one word:YES. The question is whether this could have been avoided. And here the answer is YES. Kolokotronis had even requested the surrender of the besieged Turks by providing guarantees. This is what he did with the Albanian mercenaries of the Turks in Tripolitsa who agreed and left undisturbed under the protection of Kolokotronis.
The Turks did not surrender. But didn't they themselves sack every city they conquered? Did they do it in the city? Later in Persia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine? Was conditions respected when they took the Peloponnese in 1461? Did they build pyramids with Greek heads? Did they not mercilessly slaughter, seize the bread, the women, and even the children of the Greeks throughout the Turkish occupation? Did the Greeks (then) really expect them to forget? Kolokotronis himself was always haunted by the image of his father being destroyed before his eyes by the Turkish conquerors who, in the final analysis, had no business being in every Greek Tripolitsa.
The Turks never showed mercy. So why did they expect mercy? Could 400+ years of the worst slavery ever be forgotten? Should we also condemn Spartacus because he slaughtered Romans? No, dear Turkish Foreign Minister. Few were the Turks who were slaughtered in general during the Revolution of 1821, probably much more should have been slaughtered. More were the Greeks that you slaughtered to keep the other Greeks as slaves. How many holocausts of Greeks did you cause? Should they also forget Diakos whom you skewered and roasted alive? Did they have to forget Paedomazoma? Dear Turks, have you sown horrible hatred for centuries, have you reaped unsparing hatred? Why am I complaining? Of course today there are even your "Greek" apologists... What can we do, we have discovered Democracy.