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During World War I, the Ottoman Empire was besieged from all sides.
With each passing day, the empire was crumbling further as our lands continued to be seized.
Turks were defending their homeland on four fronts in resistance against this all-out attack.
Upholding the virtues of independence and defending their motherland above all,
the brave sons of Ottoman did not allow the British,
commanding one of the world's most powerful militaries, to pass through the Dardanelles.
Having suffered a disappointing defeat in the Western Anatolian front,
this time the British set their sights on Baghdad.
But why did the British deem Baghdad so important?
The British coveted Baghdad for its rich oil fields.
Furthermore, if the British were to capture the Persian Gulf,
they would have achieved total control over the seas and establish a direct connection with India,
which was a British colony at the time.
And of course, asserting dominance over the Arab tribes in the region
meant a clear superiority for the British over the Ottoman Empire,
which in turn meant gaining total control over the region.
The British army invaded Basra on November 22nd of 1914, opening the Iraqi front.
The British troops under the command of General Townsend began their advance towards Baghdad
in July 24th, 1915.
In response to this advance, on September 28th, 1915,
the troops, led by Nurit and Bey, the general commander of Iraq,
made a tactical withdrawal to Salman Pak, Ctesiphon region, 30 kilometers away from Baghdad.
The British, unaware of the events that would unfold in the following six months,
captured the city of Kut in a victorious demeanor in September 29th, 1915.
However, this invasion period would only spell the beginning of a disaster for the British army.
Hard times were ahead for the British army that had set up a military base in the Kut al-Amarha,
which had been tactically evacuated by the Ottoman soldiers.
The Ottoman troops mounted a counterattack,
and on December 5th, they arrived before the city of Kut al-Amarha.
Following violent skirmishes that lasted throughout December,
on the day of December 27th,
the British troops trapped inside Kut al-Amarha were completely surrounded.
From time to time, the British troops would receive support to help break the tight siege.
However, munitions and supplies provided over the river were falling short.
The British army was stuck inside the city,
and the British troops were sustaining heavy losses in Kut al-Amarha.
The inevitable demise was close at hand for the British forces surrounded by the Turkish army in Kut al-Amarha.
If the siege were to continue any longer,
the already miserable British army would have faced total annihilation.
At this point, the British spy, Thomas Edward Lawrence,
who was employed by the British deep state in its shady deeds,
only to come to prominence later as the Lawrence of Arabia,
was dispatched to the region as a last resort.
Lawrence of Arabia, a British spy in Kut al-Amarha.
In April 1916, secret agent Lawrence was sent on a classified mission to Iraq by the British Ministry of War
to carry out an operation in order to rescue the 13,000-strong British force
led by General Townsend that was facing a siege in Kut al-Amarha by the Ottoman Empire.
Together with Colonel Beach and Aubrey Herbert,
another British agent well-versed in Turkish language,
Lawrence was ordered to offer an initial bribe of £1 million to the Turkish general Halil Pasha,
and he was to raise the bribe to £2 million in the case the general would refuse.
In return for the release of the British garrison under siege,
Halil Pasha furiously rejected this offer of the British.
One of the major factors why the British deep state specifically chose Lawrence as the spy
to bring the bribe offer to Halil Pasha in order to lift the siege of Kut al-Amarha
was his immense hatred toward the Turks.
In his letter sent to Miss Ryder from Oxford on April 5, 1913,
Lawrence would write the following on his animosity towards Turks.
As for Turkey, down with the Turks.
But I'm afraid there is not life but stickiness in them yet.
Their disappearance would mean a chance for the Arabs,
who were, at any rate, once not incapable of good government.
The British Secret Service agent Lawrence carried all the tell-tale signs
of the members of the British deep state, including his hatred towards the Turks.
British author David Garnett, who wrote a biography of Lawrence,
says that he was an arrogant person with a victim complex.
According to Richard Aldington, Lawrence had pretentious egotism,
was faked boastful, and a homosexual.
In other words, Lawrence displayed the typical characteristics
of the British deep state members.
The British Troop Surrender at Kut al-Amarha
Resorting to all sorts of ways to end the siege of Kut al-Amarha,
including bribery,
all the British deep state's attempts came to naught.
And after the six-month siege,
the British army finally surrendered to the Turkish army on April 29th.
The division commander, General Townsend in particular,
a total of 13 generals, 481 officers,
and 13,300 soldiers were taken prisoners by the Turkish army.
The defeat, which was reported by the newspapers as
the greatest defeat the British suffered besides the Dardanelles,
sent shockwaves throughout Europe.
This marked the only battle in British history
in which such a high number of soldiers were taken as prisoners
at a single siege.
The British historian James Morris describes the loss of Kut
as the most abject capitulation in Britain's military history.
This second Turkish victory in World War I following the Dardanelles
greatly boosted the morale of our soldiers across the country,
who used their bodies as shields
in the defense of their homelands against the enemy.
This was such welcoming news,
even the market value of the Ottoman lira went up.
The British deep state's method of pitting Muslims against each other
During the siege of Kut,
the British brought reinforcements from one of their colonies,
India, just like they had done in Dardanelles.
These troops were mostly comprised of Muslim soldiers
who were unwilling to fight against the Muslim Turks,
their brothers in religion.
On April 1915,
soldiers from the 3rd trans-border,
Patan Division,
of one of the Indian regiments
openly expressed their reluctance to fight against Turks.
On the eve of the siege of Kut,
between July 17th and 19th,
five armed Muslim Indians defected to the Turkish side.
The interrogation of the Indian soldiers
revealed that many Muslim Indian soldiers
serving in the British army
were intending to defect to the Turkish side.
The events that transpired
during the offensive of Osman Bey Hill
attested to the fact that Indian soldiers
were being forced to fight against the Turks.
The British soldiers opened fire
after the Indian soldiers
who sought to defect to the Turkish side
during the charge.
Over the course of the siege,
147 Muslim Indian soldiers
took refuge in the Turkish region,
while as many soldiers failed in the attempt.
Those who had been unsuccessful
in their attempt to defect to the Turkish side
intentionally injured their right index finger
to avoid fighting.
General Townsend was infuriated
by the fact that there were already
500 Muslim Indian soldiers
falsely claiming to be sick
to avoid fighting Muslim Turks
at the beginning of the siege.
This situation warranted a solution.
Otherwise, Britain was about to sustain
a heavy loss.
The British secret agents once again
came into play to persuade
the Muslim Indian soldiers
who worked in the British army
yet received smaller salaries
in food rations
compared to their British counterparts
into fighting against the Turks.
Many members of the British deep state,
among whom were British female agent
Gertrude Bell,
agent Aubrey Herbert,
and particularly Lawrence of Arabia,
were in the region
with the purpose of compelling
scores of Muslim Indians
to fight against the Turks.
The British resorted
to the same tactic
they employed
in the Battle of the Dardanelles,
and in order not to risk
the lives of their own soldiers
in the tough conditions of war,
they used the innocent Muslim Indians
who had been conscripted at gunpoint.
They even went as far
as to change the name
of the battlefields
to psychologically induce
the Indian soldiers.
The British troops
were preparing to advance
from Assisye to Salman Park.
This place was home
to the shrine
of the Salman al-Farisi.
One of the prophets,
peace be upon him,
companions who had fought
alongside him in many battles.
If the Muslim Indian soldiers
came to know about this,
they might have quit
fighting against the Turks
altogether.
To forestall this,
General Townsend
renamed the city
to its ancient name,
Tassifan.
The British deep state
resorted to all sorts
of deceptive methods
to bring Muslim Indians,
whom they had forcibly
brought to Kutalamara,
with the aim of setting them
against their Muslim
Turkish brothers.
And it caused the death
of 23,000 Muslim Indians
under the harsh conditions of war.
The Ottoman Collective
Islamic Spirit
In an attempt to bring down
the Ottoman Empire
from within,
the British deep state
pursued policies
of instigating
the Ottoman citizens
against the central administration
in Balkans,
the Arabian Peninsula,
and India.
In this way,
they would be able
to deal with the disintegration
of the Ottoman
in a quick and practical manner,
without having to put the lives
of British soldiers in danger.
By spreading radical
nationalist propaganda
among the Ottoman Empire
over its vast area,
the members of the British deep state
fueled local dissent
and revolts.
The biggest aim
of this propaganda activity
was to invalidate
the caliph's call
for Jihad al-Akbar,
meaning the Great War.
If the Indians and Arabs
were to unite
under the Ottoman banner,
this would spell the doom
of the Britain of the time.
In order to prevent this,
the deep state dispatched
its spies all across
the Ottoman geography.
Having already sowed
the seeds of sedition to grow,
the British spy Lawrence,
who went by the name
Lawrence of Arabia,
and the female spy Gertrude Bell,
being in particular
hundreds of spies
assigned to the Middle East
by the British deep state,
were operating in the Arabic region
between Baghdad and Cairo.
The Kurdish and Arabic tribes
resisted the British attempts
to provoke the Arabs
against the Ottoman.
The victory of Qut al-Amara
was made possible
by the tremendous help
from the Kurdish tribes
as well as some Arabic tribes,
among which there were
those who were Shiite,
which acted in concert
with the Ottoman.
Except from the Arabs
under the rule
of the Sharif Hussein,
the Emir of Mecca,
there were no Arab revolts
that broke out
in populous settlements
throughout the World War I.
Arabs and Kurds
fought alongside
their Turkish brothers
and were martyred
in Dardanelles and Aydin.
The victory letter
from Halil Pasha,
the conqueror
of Qut al-Amara.
Having lived in peace
and safety
under the Ottoman rule
and the Caliph's protection
for many centuries,
Arabs, Kurds, Indians,
and Balkan Muslims
strove in a spirit
of brotherhood
to defend the lands of Islam
from enemy occupation
in the World War I.
For this cause,
Arabs, Kurds, Shiites,
Sunnis, Albanians,
Circassians,
tens of thousands
of Muslims
of all races
and ethnic groups
were martyred,
refusing to bend their knee
before the enemy.
The victory won
in Qut al-Amara
against the British army,
one of the most powerful
armies of the time,
was one of those moments
that the spirit
of brotherhood
and unity
was strongly expressed.
The order given
by Halil Pasha,
the great commander
behind this victory
on April 29th, 1916,
sheds light
on the noble mental state
of the sons of Islam
who sacrificed their lives
in the name of God,
Islam,
the homeland,
and the flag as follows.
To my army,
Lionhearts,
today the spirits
of our martyrs
are ascending happily
and joyfully
in the sunny skies
under which Turks
achieve a glorious victory
while the British
suffered a heavy defeat.
I kiss you
on your pure foreheads
and congratulate you all.
Praise be to God!