The brutalities of Crusaders (1096-1099)

The Crusades are the leading events that shaped world history. The effects of the Crusades, which are described as the East-West or the Clash of Civilizations, proceed today and the source of the conflicts of the modern world dates back to the Middle Ages. Much has been said about the reasons of such an important event that left its mark on world history, and religious motifs were highlighted in the Crusades, a project of the Catholic Church. On the other hand, the underlying reasons of the expeditions are political and economic. The Crusades, as of the beginning, or at least in their declared form, were embarked on Muslims. However, new actors were added to the perception of the enemy both at the beginning and in the advancing phase of the campaign, and Jews and non-Catholic Christians were included in this framework and became the inter locutors of the Crusade. The Crusaders, who acted as if they were wild-eyed with religious bigotry and greed for booty, murdered Jews to seize the wealth they had and they murdered the Christians by accusing them of religious heresy, driven by their sectarian differences. Muslims, on the other hand, were portrayed as defiling Holy Places, irreligious and persecuting Eastern Christians, and were targeted by the Catholic Church. During the Crusades, the Crusaders, who committed terrible atrocities without making any Jewish-Christian-Muslim or age-sex discrimination, did not refrain from carrying out many inhuman acts such as massacre, torturing corpses, cannibalism, plunder and destruction. Moreover, they have come up with various explanations to base all these on a just cause. The source of all the inhuman events in the study is the Crusaders themselves. Because the main sources of the First Crusade recorded the events in detail and without any discomfort. Keywords: Crusades, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Atrocities.