Turkey and Ottoman Empire
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The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement – the pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye signed in August – has been described inaccurately by Andrew Korybko and others as “the Muslim NATO”. This is nonsense, since the orientation of it and the reasons for it have little to do with Russia. Tariq Ali has described it…
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In June’s Irish Political Review Brendan Clifford wrote of ‘The Phenomenon Of Anti-Semitism!’ He observed that the— “Jewish mode of national existence was viable when there was a world order consistingof Empires. In 1917/18 most of the Empires fell. They were not overthrown bynationalist revolutions. It was only in Ireland that there was a nationalist…
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Available Now available from Amazon UK in e-book, softback and hardback editions. A 436 page book of 10 chapters on the causes, course and consequences of one of the most consequential and catastrophic events in history – The Great War on Ottoman Turkey. Contents Introduction Chapter I. Britain and the Ottoman Empire p.5 Chapter II.…
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The Cyprus dispute goes back to the early 1960s, when the Greek Cypriots started to gradually erode the constitutional rights of the Turkish community on the Island. There were a series of pogroms and massacres of the Turkish population. The fascist coup in Cyprus, aimed at annexation of the island by Greece, led to Turkish…
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To mark the sad passing of the esteemed historian and former Turkish Ambassador to Ireland, Altay Cengizer, I republish an article from the Irish Political Review of December 2013, describing his greatly informative address at Michael Collins Barracks, Dublin, on Saturday 13 November 2013. He is a great loss to Turkiye and Ireland. Allah Rehmet…
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War is a catastrophic form of activity. In a war the concentrated power of violence of one state meets that of another. War is therefore a very fundamental kind of activity which has far reaching social consequences in the victorious as well as in the defeated society. Wars are usually ended by the defeat of…
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After maintaining a discreet distance from Israel’s war on Iran, which has been going on for a lot longer than 12 days, President Trump decided to weigh in with American power to help the Israelis finish the job. By doing this he has taken direct US ownership of the war and begun to ride two…
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“The birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way… The gleaming marvels…
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President Bashar al Assad has gone, but the problem of governing the state of Syria remains. The Western media (and its alternatives in the Western alt-media) have described the fall of President Assad as an “overthrowing.” It was nothing of the sort. Assad was not overthrown. He was, in fact, fired. The circumstances of the…
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The conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East and most of the mess in Syria and the general region is a direct product of Britain’s Great War on the Ottoman Empire. Britain, after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, as part of the Great War taken on against Germany, expected…
