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tried to portray the Turkish nation as a backward nation that had to bow
its head to more advanced European races.
The so-called "scientific basis" for this propaganda was Charles Darwin!
Darwin's comments regarding the Turkish nation appeared in the
book The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, published in 1888. Darwin pro-
posed that by eliminating the "backward races" natural selection would
play a role in the development of civilisation, and later said these exact
words about the Turkish nation:
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the
progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what
risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being over-
whelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more
civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the
struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an
endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher
civilized races throughout the world. 24
This nonsense of Darwin's was a written propaganda tool to give
support to Britain's policy of destroying the Ottoman Empire. And in fact
this propaganda tool was an effective one. Darwin's words to the effect
that "The Turkish nation will soon disappear, this is a law of evolution"
gave a so-called scientific support to Britain's propaganda directed at cre-
ating enmity towards the Turks.
Britain's desire to bring about Darwin's prophecy basically came to
life in the First World War. This giant war, which began in 1914, was born
of conflicts of interest between Germany and Austria-Hungary on the one
side, and the allies Britain, France, and Russia on the other. But one of the
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In the Gallipoli campaign
the Turkish Army hero-
ically fought against the
enemy forces, with the
British at their head, and
lost 250,000 men.