#also lol at articles saying zildjian was founded in turkey so it's a turkish company

[sexhaver]

more specifically, they left because the CEO of the business tried to car bomb the sultan in the years leading up to the Armenian Genocide:

Aram Zildjian had become so incensed by Turkish atrocities against Amernians that he had joined a plot to assassinate Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. Aram & his confreres had a carriage constructed in Brussels that was identical with one that the Sultan rode in when making ritual visits to a mosque except that it had a built-in timebomb. The carriage was driven across Europe & smuggled into the royal stables. The bomb, however, went off prematurely in the courtyard of the mosque, destroying the carriage but not the Sultan or the nameplate of the Brussels carriage maker, through whom the Turkish police were able to trace the conspirators.