Emperor Constantine officially named Constantinople as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in 330 AD.

It became a point of which Christianity based its roots. Churches sprouted as Roman disowned pagan worship for Christianity. The city remained the capital until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. Byzantium rulers took over and used it as their base until 1453.

On 29 May 1453, Turkish sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" entered Constantinople following a 53-day siege. The ascent of the Ottoman Empire was in full swing.

On 28 of May 2013, a turning point was reached in Turkey, resonating beautifully with the conquest of Constantinople. In the book "A Treatise on Government", Aristotle wrote on the genesis of revolutions:

"But seditions in government do not arise for little things, but

from them; for their immediate cause is something of moment. Now, trifling quarrels are attended with the greatest consequences when they arise between persons of the first distinction in the state, as was the case with the Syracusians in a remote period; for a revolution in the government was brought about by a quarrel between two young men who were in office, upon a love affair; for one of them being absent, the other seduced his mistress; he in his turn, offended with this, persuaded his friends wife to come and live with him; and upon this the whole city took part either with the one or the other, and the government was overturned: therefore every one at the beginning of such disputes ought to take care to avoid the consequences; and to smother up all quarrels which may happen to arise amongst those in power, for the mischief lies in the beginning; for the beginning is said to be half of the business, so that what was then but a little fault will be found afterwards to bear its full proportion to what follows."

Man's passions have not changed over thousands of years. The Arab Spring began with self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi who could not find work and was selling fruit. When a municipal inspector confiscated his merchandise, he set himself alight. Protests in Turkey began over demolition of Taksim Gezi Park.

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