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the Ottoman territories. Five years later, in 1882, Britain occupied Egypt,
which was an Ottoman territory. British colonialism set about its plans to
later take over the Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
As always, Britain based these colonialist policies on racism. The
British government deliberately tried to portray the Turkish nation, the
basic element of the Ottomans, and particularly the Ottoman state, as a
so-called "backward" people.
British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone openly said that the
Turks are examples of mankind's non-humans, and for the sake of their
civilisation, they must be pushed back to the Asian steppes and eliminat-
ed from Anatolia. 23
These, and words like them, were for decades used by the British
government as a propaganda tool directed against the Ottomans. Britain

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Charles Darwin used his theory with the
aim of adding to Britain's political plans
against the Ottomans, and attempted to
show that the Turkish nation was a
backward race. In our time the enemies
of the Turks still draw support from this
nonsense of Darwin's.