Not all ogres are found in folktales

Not all ogres are found in folktales Friday, January 11, 2019 <img alt="" data-entity-type="" data-entity-uuid="" height="599" src="/sites/default/files/2019-01/432px-Topal_Osman_Agha.jpg" width="432" /> Some blood-thirsty ogres don't look like folktale monsters. Topal Osman was a Turkish militia leader who dressed much like the Pontic Christians that he despised. He led the slaughter of the Armenians and Greeks in parts of the Pontos. George Gawrych, who wrote the biography, The Young Ataturk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey,  Topal Osman was a "sadistic ethnic cleanser of Armenians and Greeks." (2015: p.180). Osman directed his militia to carry out atrocities, including massacres, deportations, destruction and confiscation of property, extortion, and rape throughout the cities, towns and villages of Sampsounta, Marsovan, Kerasounta, Tripolis, and Oinoe. The city of Trebizond notably refused to cooperate; its government's and inhabitants' multi-cultural ideals were bolstered by strong inter-ethnic family relationships. Mustafa Kemal, the future Ataturk, had him seized and executed on April 1, 1923. (See also Enkyklopaideia tou Pontiakou Ellinismou, vol 2, p.205; Wikipedia)