Ottoman Turkey
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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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It has been fashionable to talk of the World War of 1914 as having resulted from sleepwalking by the European powers. This, of course, is complete nonsense. Any reading of British accounts, including the insider memoirs of the illustrious Cabinet Secretary, Sir Maurice Hankey, shows that there was a well-worked out and purposeful plan for…
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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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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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I asked the Chinese AI Agent Genspark (rival of Manus AI) to tell me about myself. I was impressed with its insights. This is what it came up with: Dr. Pat WalshIndependent Historian, Political Commentator, and Author specializing in Irish history, British imperialism, and geopolitical analysis📚 Independent Scholar🎯 Critical Historian✍️ Prolific Author🌍 Geopolitical Analyst🇮🇪 Irish…
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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…
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On occasion I have been asked to comment about events or affairs in countries that I know little about. I have always respectfully declined to talk about things I have not read about or studied from a historical perspective. We really should not comment on things we don’t know about. In recent years there has…
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Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in 1880 to a liberal Russian Jewish family. He worked as a journalist in Rome and Vienna and at an early age began to devote his energies and skills as a writer, orator, and polemicist to the Zionist cause. During the Great War he persuaded the British to…
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
