Turkey and Ottoman Empire
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It was the Revolution in British Foreign Policy conducted by Sir Edward Grey and the Liberal Imperialists between 1906 and 1914 that made the Great War. The single most important political event that made what happened in Eastern Anatolia in 1915 a possibility was the 1907 agreement between England and Russia that prepared the way…
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Pope Francis, on April 12th at St. Peter’s Basilica, in the presence of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, and His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics, said the following: “Dear Armenian Brothers and Sisters,
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The present writer was in attendance at a conference given at Collins Barracks, Dublin, on Saturday 13th November 2010 entitled ‘Ireland and World War One.’ With the centenary of the Gallipoli disaster fast approaching it is worth remembering that event for the insights it brought to light about this event. The main speakers were Altay…
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The Great Calamity that engulfed the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has been narrowed down to a single question: Was the Young Turk Government in Istanbul guilty of Genocide? But the tragedy of the deaths of great numbers of Armenians, Turks and Kurds is inexplicable if confined solely to this. And it obscures…
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There have been some unfavorable political reviews from some British commentators about Russell Crowe’s film The Water Diviner, an account of Gallipoli. Mr. Crowe has been condemned for seeing the Turkish side of things and asking why Australia appeared on the shores of Gallipoli at all: “We should be mature enough as a nation to…
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What was the Great War and what was responsible for it? The Great War was a traditional British Balance of Power war infused with a new moral imperative. The Balance of Power was the traditional British policy of disrupting European political stability and economic development used to keep the continent occupied as Britain, the island, grabbed the…
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There has been a strange silence in this part of the world over the centenary of the opening of the Great War on the Ottoman Empire. After the great fanfare surrounding the centenary of the war on Germany and all the nonsense about Ireland having apparently forgotten its part in such a world-historic event nothing…
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There has been remarkably little comment in Ireland and England about the war that began 100 years ago yesterday. That is the war on the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps no war has had such repercussions for things today as this war. And yet there are no discussions about how it came about, what it was for…
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On the Republic of Turkey’s Republic Day, Happy Birthday from Ireland. There are many parallels between Ireland’s and Turkey’s struggles for independence which were apparent to both Irish Republicans and Turkish nationalists at the time. A few years ago I discovered that an enthusiastic commentary had been published in Ireland about Mustapha Kemal Atatürk, the…
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Graham E. Fuller, former CIA officer, is the author of the most informative book about Turkish politics and regional geopolitics, ‘The New Turkish Republic – Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World’, published in 2008. In the following interesting recent interview Fuller argues that the West, including the United States, after attempting to destroy the…
