Atatürk Dissolved the Roman Empire

Since the Ottomans conquered the Roman Empire and adopted Roman Imperial titles and governance, one could technically make the argument that the Roman Empire was dissolved by Atatürk when he ended the monarchy and founded the Turkish republic in 1923. SPQR TRASH

A Wojak-style cartoon shows Roman-themed figures reacting in distress as a suited man labeled by the Ottoman-Turkish historical context throws a black SPQR sack into a trash can. The joke is a deliberately technical historical argument that the Roman Empire survived through the Ottoman Empire and was finally dissolved when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ended the Ottoman monarchy and founded the Turkish Republic in 1923. EN: A Wojak-style cartoon shows Roman-themed figures reacting in distress as a suited man labeled by the Ottoman-Turkish historical context throws a black SPQR sack into a trash can. The joke is a deliberately technical historical argument that the Roman Empire survived through the Ottoman Empire and was finally dissolved when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ended the Ottoman monarchy and founded the Turkish Republic in 1923.

• @eternalclassic / 42081 2023-11-19