1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 We'll be right back. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,980 We'll be right back. 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:29,980 We'll be right back. 4 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,520 During World War I, the Ottoman Empire was besieged from all sides. 5 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,460 With each passing day, the empire was crumbling further as our lands continued to be seized. 6 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:46,160 Turks were defending their homeland on four fronts in resistance against this all-out attack. 7 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,520 Upholding the virtues of independence and defending their motherland above all, 8 00:01:50,820 --> 00:01:53,440 the brave sons of Ottoman did not allow the British, 9 00:01:53,660 --> 00:01:58,000 commanding one of the world's most powerful militaries, to pass through the Dardanelles. 10 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,020 Having suffered a disappointing defeat in the Western Anatolian front, 11 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:05,300 this time the British set their sights on Baghdad. 12 00:02:05,980 --> 00:02:08,860 But why did the British deem Baghdad so important? 13 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:12,940 The British coveted Baghdad for its rich oil fields. 14 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,540 Furthermore, if the British were to capture the Persian Gulf, 15 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:22,080 they would have achieved total control over the seas and establish a direct connection with India, 16 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,460 which was a British colony at the time. 17 00:02:25,020 --> 00:02:28,480 And of course, asserting dominance over the Arab tribes in the region 18 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,060 meant a clear superiority for the British over the Ottoman Empire, 19 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,560 which in turn meant gaining total control over the region. 20 00:02:52,080 --> 00:03:05,000 The British army invaded Basra on November 22nd of 1914, opening the Iraqi front. 21 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:10,340 The British troops under the command of General Townsend began their advance towards Baghdad 22 00:03:10,340 --> 00:03:12,780 in July 24th, 1915. 23 00:03:13,380 --> 00:03:16,860 In response to this advance, on September 28th, 1915, 24 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:20,660 the troops, led by Nurit and Bey, the general commander of Iraq, 25 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:26,520 made a tactical withdrawal to Salman Pak, Ctesiphon region, 30 kilometers away from Baghdad. 26 00:03:27,020 --> 00:03:30,620 The British, unaware of the events that would unfold in the following six months, 27 00:03:31,060 --> 00:03:35,900 captured the city of Kut in a victorious demeanor in September 29th, 1915. 28 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:41,940 However, this invasion period would only spell the beginning of a disaster for the British army. 29 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:54,520 Hard times were ahead for the British army that had set up a military base in the Kut al-Amarha, 30 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,040 which had been tactically evacuated by the Ottoman soldiers. 31 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,780 The Ottoman troops mounted a counterattack, 32 00:04:01,220 --> 00:04:04,840 and on December 5th, they arrived before the city of Kut al-Amarha. 33 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:08,160 Following violent skirmishes that lasted throughout December, 34 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,560 on the day of December 27th, 35 00:04:10,820 --> 00:04:15,060 the British troops trapped inside Kut al-Amarha were completely surrounded. 36 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:19,860 From time to time, the British troops would receive support to help break the tight siege. 37 00:04:20,340 --> 00:04:24,360 However, munitions and supplies provided over the river were falling short. 38 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,980 The British army was stuck inside the city, 39 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,920 and the British troops were sustaining heavy losses in Kut al-Amarha. 40 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:43,260 The inevitable demise was close at hand for the British forces surrounded by the Turkish army in Kut al-Amarha. 41 00:04:43,260 --> 00:04:45,660 If the siege were to continue any longer, 42 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,560 the already miserable British army would have faced total annihilation. 43 00:04:50,020 --> 00:04:53,000 At this point, the British spy, Thomas Edward Lawrence, 44 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:56,480 who was employed by the British deep state in its shady deeds, 45 00:04:56,980 --> 00:05:00,040 only to come to prominence later as the Lawrence of Arabia, 46 00:05:00,460 --> 00:05:02,860 was dispatched to the region as a last resort. 47 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:08,600 Lawrence of Arabia, a British spy in Kut al-Amarha. 48 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:17,600 In April 1916, secret agent Lawrence was sent on a classified mission to Iraq by the British Ministry of War 49 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,800 to carry out an operation in order to rescue the 13,000-strong British force 50 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,160 led by General Townsend that was facing a siege in Kut al-Amarha by the Ottoman Empire. 51 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,740 Together with Colonel Beach and Aubrey Herbert, 52 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,720 another British agent well-versed in Turkish language, 53 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,960 Lawrence was ordered to offer an initial bribe of £1 million to the Turkish general Halil Pasha, 54 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,140 and he was to raise the bribe to £2 million in the case the general would refuse. 55 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:48,700 In return for the release of the British garrison under siege, 56 00:05:49,060 --> 00:05:52,160 Halil Pasha furiously rejected this offer of the British. 57 00:05:52,160 --> 00:06:03,640 One of the major factors why the British deep state specifically chose Lawrence as the spy 58 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:08,240 to bring the bribe offer to Halil Pasha in order to lift the siege of Kut al-Amarha 59 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,520 was his immense hatred toward the Turks. 60 00:06:11,060 --> 00:06:15,140 In his letter sent to Miss Ryder from Oxford on April 5, 1913, 61 00:06:15,660 --> 00:06:18,660 Lawrence would write the following on his animosity towards Turks. 62 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:28,460 As for Turkey, down with the Turks. 63 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:32,740 But I'm afraid there is not life but stickiness in them yet. 64 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,760 Their disappearance would mean a chance for the Arabs, 65 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,900 who were, at any rate, once not incapable of good government. 66 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:49,020 The British Secret Service agent Lawrence carried all the tell-tale signs 67 00:06:49,020 --> 00:06:53,380 of the members of the British deep state, including his hatred towards the Turks. 68 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,440 British author David Garnett, who wrote a biography of Lawrence, 69 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,080 says that he was an arrogant person with a victim complex. 70 00:07:01,620 --> 00:07:04,780 According to Richard Aldington, Lawrence had pretentious egotism, 71 00:07:05,140 --> 00:07:07,120 was faked boastful, and a homosexual. 72 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,040 In other words, Lawrence displayed the typical characteristics 73 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,720 of the British deep state members. 74 00:07:17,820 --> 00:07:20,680 The British Troop Surrender at Kut al-Amarha 75 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:27,440 Resorting to all sorts of ways to end the siege of Kut al-Amarha, 76 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:28,580 including bribery, 77 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,740 all the British deep state's attempts came to naught. 78 00:07:31,740 --> 00:07:34,040 And after the six-month siege, 79 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,640 the British army finally surrendered to the Turkish army on April 29th. 80 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,760 The division commander, General Townsend in particular, 81 00:07:42,260 --> 00:07:45,520 a total of 13 generals, 481 officers, 82 00:07:46,140 --> 00:07:50,340 and 13,300 soldiers were taken prisoners by the Turkish army. 83 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,700 The defeat, which was reported by the newspapers as 84 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:57,200 the greatest defeat the British suffered besides the Dardanelles, 85 00:07:57,740 --> 00:07:59,500 sent shockwaves throughout Europe. 86 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,300 This marked the only battle in British history 87 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:05,640 in which such a high number of soldiers were taken as prisoners 88 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:06,900 at a single siege. 89 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,760 The British historian James Morris describes the loss of Kut 90 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,840 as the most abject capitulation in Britain's military history. 91 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,780 This second Turkish victory in World War I following the Dardanelles 92 00:08:18,780 --> 00:08:22,020 greatly boosted the morale of our soldiers across the country, 93 00:08:22,420 --> 00:08:24,140 who used their bodies as shields 94 00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:26,480 in the defense of their homelands against the enemy. 95 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,980 This was such welcoming news, 96 00:08:30,180 --> 00:08:32,820 even the market value of the Ottoman lira went up. 97 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:39,320 The British deep state's method of pitting Muslims against each other 98 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,640 During the siege of Kut, 99 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,380 the British brought reinforcements from one of their colonies, 100 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:48,340 India, just like they had done in Dardanelles. 101 00:08:48,820 --> 00:08:51,740 These troops were mostly comprised of Muslim soldiers 102 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:54,280 who were unwilling to fight against the Muslim Turks, 103 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:55,860 their brothers in religion. 104 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:57,640 On April 1915, 105 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,640 soldiers from the 3rd trans-border, 106 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:00,620 Patan Division, 107 00:09:01,020 --> 00:09:02,280 of one of the Indian regiments 108 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,940 openly expressed their reluctance to fight against Turks. 109 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:06,820 On the eve of the siege of Kut, 110 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,160 between July 17th and 19th, 111 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,620 five armed Muslim Indians defected to the Turkish side. 112 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,940 The interrogation of the Indian soldiers 113 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:16,900 revealed that many Muslim Indian soldiers 114 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:18,060 serving in the British army 115 00:09:18,060 --> 00:09:20,540 were intending to defect to the Turkish side. 116 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:36,420 The events that transpired 117 00:09:36,420 --> 00:09:39,080 during the offensive of Osman Bey Hill 118 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,280 attested to the fact that Indian soldiers 119 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,460 were being forced to fight against the Turks. 120 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,860 The British soldiers opened fire 121 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:47,240 after the Indian soldiers 122 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,280 who sought to defect to the Turkish side 123 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,120 during the charge. 124 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,060 Over the course of the siege, 125 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,760 147 Muslim Indian soldiers 126 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,480 took refuge in the Turkish region, 127 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,900 while as many soldiers failed in the attempt. 128 00:09:59,460 --> 00:10:00,540 Those who had been unsuccessful 129 00:10:00,540 --> 00:10:02,520 in their attempt to defect to the Turkish side 130 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,900 intentionally injured their right index finger 131 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:05,780 to avoid fighting. 132 00:10:06,620 --> 00:10:08,480 General Townsend was infuriated 133 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,960 by the fact that there were already 134 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,980 500 Muslim Indian soldiers 135 00:10:11,980 --> 00:10:13,700 falsely claiming to be sick 136 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:15,500 to avoid fighting Muslim Turks 137 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:16,680 at the beginning of the siege. 138 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,740 This situation warranted a solution. 139 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:21,780 Otherwise, Britain was about to sustain 140 00:10:21,780 --> 00:10:22,960 a heavy loss. 141 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,720 The British secret agents once again 142 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,300 came into play to persuade 143 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:34,580 the Muslim Indian soldiers 144 00:10:34,580 --> 00:10:36,220 who worked in the British army 145 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:38,080 yet received smaller salaries 146 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:38,960 in food rations 147 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,560 compared to their British counterparts 148 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,640 into fighting against the Turks. 149 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:44,820 Many members of the British deep state, 150 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:46,940 among whom were British female agent 151 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:47,800 Gertrude Bell, 152 00:10:48,260 --> 00:10:49,260 agent Aubrey Herbert, 153 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,580 and particularly Lawrence of Arabia, 154 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:52,800 were in the region 155 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,160 with the purpose of compelling 156 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,660 scores of Muslim Indians 157 00:10:55,660 --> 00:10:57,120 to fight against the Turks. 158 00:10:57,660 --> 00:10:58,580 The British resorted 159 00:10:58,580 --> 00:10:59,660 to the same tactic 160 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:00,280 they employed 161 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,680 in the Battle of the Dardanelles, 162 00:11:02,060 --> 00:11:03,220 and in order not to risk 163 00:11:03,220 --> 00:11:04,660 the lives of their own soldiers 164 00:11:04,660 --> 00:11:06,220 in the tough conditions of war, 165 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,660 they used the innocent Muslim Indians 166 00:11:08,660 --> 00:11:10,640 who had been conscripted at gunpoint. 167 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,360 They even went as far 168 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:13,540 as to change the name 169 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:14,480 of the battlefields 170 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:15,900 to psychologically induce 171 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:16,760 the Indian soldiers. 172 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,740 The British troops 173 00:11:23,740 --> 00:11:25,140 were preparing to advance 174 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:27,140 from Assisye to Salman Park. 175 00:11:27,740 --> 00:11:28,880 This place was home 176 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:29,600 to the shrine 177 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,820 of the Salman al-Farisi. 178 00:11:31,380 --> 00:11:32,560 One of the prophets, 179 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,640 peace be upon him, 180 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:35,040 companions who had fought 181 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,620 alongside him in many battles. 182 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,820 If the Muslim Indian soldiers 183 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:40,140 came to know about this, 184 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:41,200 they might have quit 185 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,340 fighting against the Turks 186 00:11:42,340 --> 00:11:43,040 altogether. 187 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,400 To forestall this, 188 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:45,360 General Townsend 189 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,160 renamed the city 190 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,300 to its ancient name, 191 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:48,260 Tassifan. 192 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:50,260 The British deep state 193 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:51,540 resorted to all sorts 194 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:52,520 of deceptive methods 195 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,780 to bring Muslim Indians, 196 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:55,100 whom they had forcibly 197 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:56,320 brought to Kutalamara, 198 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:57,960 with the aim of setting them 199 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:58,860 against their Muslim 200 00:11:58,860 --> 00:11:59,680 Turkish brothers. 201 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:01,320 And it caused the death 202 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,440 of 23,000 Muslim Indians 203 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,200 under the harsh conditions of war. 204 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,960 The Ottoman Collective 205 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:10,960 Islamic Spirit 206 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:16,240 In an attempt to bring down 207 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,080 the Ottoman Empire 208 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:17,680 from within, 209 00:12:18,140 --> 00:12:19,260 the British deep state 210 00:12:19,260 --> 00:12:20,140 pursued policies 211 00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:21,160 of instigating 212 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,180 the Ottoman citizens 213 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:23,720 against the central administration 214 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:24,480 in Balkans, 215 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:25,960 the Arabian Peninsula, 216 00:12:26,420 --> 00:12:26,860 and India. 217 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:28,260 In this way, 218 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:29,180 they would be able 219 00:12:29,180 --> 00:12:30,600 to deal with the disintegration 220 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:31,160 of the Ottoman 221 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,860 in a quick and practical manner, 222 00:12:32,860 --> 00:12:34,360 without having to put the lives 223 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,900 of British soldiers in danger. 224 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:37,500 By spreading radical 225 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:38,660 nationalist propaganda 226 00:12:38,660 --> 00:12:40,040 among the Ottoman Empire 227 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:41,260 over its vast area, 228 00:12:41,660 --> 00:12:43,360 the members of the British deep state 229 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,580 fueled local dissent 230 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:45,320 and revolts. 231 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:46,740 The biggest aim 232 00:12:46,740 --> 00:12:48,080 of this propaganda activity 233 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:49,100 was to invalidate 234 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:49,980 the caliph's call 235 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:51,680 for Jihad al-Akbar, 236 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:53,360 meaning the Great War. 237 00:12:53,660 --> 00:12:54,780 If the Indians and Arabs 238 00:12:54,780 --> 00:12:55,420 were to unite 239 00:12:55,420 --> 00:12:56,560 under the Ottoman banner, 240 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,060 this would spell the doom 241 00:12:58,060 --> 00:12:59,380 of the Britain of the time. 242 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:00,660 In order to prevent this, 243 00:13:00,660 --> 00:13:01,880 the deep state dispatched 244 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,180 its spies all across 245 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:04,180 the Ottoman geography. 246 00:13:04,820 --> 00:13:05,740 Having already sowed 247 00:13:05,740 --> 00:13:07,100 the seeds of sedition to grow, 248 00:13:07,660 --> 00:13:08,780 the British spy Lawrence, 249 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:09,620 who went by the name 250 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:10,760 Lawrence of Arabia, 251 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,980 and the female spy Gertrude Bell, 252 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:14,000 being in particular 253 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,200 hundreds of spies 254 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,360 assigned to the Middle East 255 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,620 by the British deep state, 256 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:19,480 were operating in the Arabic region 257 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,120 between Baghdad and Cairo. 258 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,200 The Kurdish and Arabic tribes 259 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,500 resisted the British attempts 260 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:25,440 to provoke the Arabs 261 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:26,220 against the Ottoman. 262 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:28,180 The victory of Qut al-Amara 263 00:13:28,180 --> 00:13:29,480 was made possible 264 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:30,580 by the tremendous help 265 00:13:30,580 --> 00:13:31,700 from the Kurdish tribes 266 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,420 as well as some Arabic tribes, 267 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:34,680 among which there were 268 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:35,740 those who were Shiite, 269 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,100 which acted in concert 270 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:37,720 with the Ottoman. 271 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,180 Except from the Arabs 272 00:13:39,180 --> 00:13:39,800 under the rule 273 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,920 of the Sharif Hussein, 274 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:42,120 the Emir of Mecca, 275 00:13:42,420 --> 00:13:43,640 there were no Arab revolts 276 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:44,300 that broke out 277 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:45,320 in populous settlements 278 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:46,520 throughout the World War I. 279 00:13:47,020 --> 00:13:47,860 Arabs and Kurds 280 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:48,460 fought alongside 281 00:13:48,460 --> 00:13:49,420 their Turkish brothers 282 00:13:49,420 --> 00:13:50,440 and were martyred 283 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,840 in Dardanelles and Aydin. 284 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,960 The victory letter 285 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,940 from Halil Pasha, 286 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:58,060 the conqueror 287 00:13:58,060 --> 00:13:59,100 of Qut al-Amara. 288 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,100 Having lived in peace 289 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:06,680 and safety 290 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:07,920 under the Ottoman rule 291 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:09,240 and the Caliph's protection 292 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,400 for many centuries, 293 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,500 Arabs, Kurds, Indians, 294 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:13,680 and Balkan Muslims 295 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,100 strove in a spirit 296 00:14:15,100 --> 00:14:15,840 of brotherhood 297 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,460 to defend the lands of Islam 298 00:14:17,460 --> 00:14:18,720 from enemy occupation 299 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,040 in the World War I. 300 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:21,320 For this cause, 301 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,340 Arabs, Kurds, Shiites, 302 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:25,000 Sunnis, Albanians, 303 00:14:25,220 --> 00:14:26,000 Circassians, 304 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,160 tens of thousands 305 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:27,780 of Muslims 306 00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:28,820 of all races 307 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:29,780 and ethnic groups 308 00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:30,580 were martyred, 309 00:14:31,020 --> 00:14:32,540 refusing to bend their knee 310 00:14:32,540 --> 00:14:33,360 before the enemy. 311 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:34,740 The victory won 312 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:35,600 in Qut al-Amara 313 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:36,920 against the British army, 314 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,260 one of the most powerful 315 00:14:38,260 --> 00:14:39,300 armies of the time, 316 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,100 was one of those moments 317 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:41,860 that the spirit 318 00:14:41,860 --> 00:14:42,520 of brotherhood 319 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:43,040 and unity 320 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,520 was strongly expressed. 321 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:45,780 The order given 322 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:46,820 by Halil Pasha, 323 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:48,020 the great commander 324 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:49,040 behind this victory 325 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,400 on April 29th, 1916, 326 00:14:51,780 --> 00:14:52,360 sheds light 327 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,720 on the noble mental state 328 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,920 of the sons of Islam 329 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,560 who sacrificed their lives 330 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,460 in the name of God, 331 00:14:57,780 --> 00:14:58,200 Islam, 332 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,080 the homeland, 333 00:14:59,420 --> 00:15:00,740 and the flag as follows. 334 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,120 To my army, 335 00:15:02,580 --> 00:15:03,280 Lionhearts, 336 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:04,800 today the spirits 337 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:05,560 of our martyrs 338 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:06,480 are ascending happily 339 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:07,220 and joyfully 340 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:08,540 in the sunny skies 341 00:15:08,540 --> 00:15:09,580 under which Turks 342 00:15:09,580 --> 00:15:11,200 achieve a glorious victory 343 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,080 while the British 344 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,280 suffered a heavy defeat. 345 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:14,300 I kiss you 346 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:15,720 on your pure foreheads 347 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,040 and congratulate you all. 348 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,340 Praise be to God!