The Ottoman approach of Rhodes was simple and effective as a barbarity. After 1522 and the siege of Rhodes, the ottomans transformed many churches by adding minarets and domes. They didn’t build much because they preferably chose to erase the past than to create the future. In this manner they follow the steps of genocide of memory so much in a religious level with the trespassing of churches as in a strategic level with the annihilation of elements which remind the knights.
They plaster the walls of the citadel and the coat of arms, thinking that what is not seen, no longer exists and in essence it is as if it never existed. Also they will prohibit to the Greeks to stay inside the citadel and their presence between sunset and sunrise will be subjected to the death penalty. If these acts can be interpreted as the foundations of the history it is indeed a ridiculousness which only servility can allow to its own self. If someone attends lessons of smart education one cannot then become a victim of propaganda of barbarity, because it cannot establish its views since they are not based on facts but only on misinterpretations.