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most important calculations within this war was the aim of destroying
and dividing up the Ottoman Empire.
Britain attacked the Ottoman Empire from two separate directions.
The first was the Canal, Palestine, and Iraq fronts, opened with the inten-
tion of taking the Ottoman territories in the Middle East. The second was
the Gallipoli front, scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the First World
War. The Turkish Army at Çanakkale fought heroically and lost 250,000
men to resist the enemy forces mustered by the British. As for the British,
they sent more Indian troops and Anzac units recruited from such
colonies as Australia and New Zealand to fight the Turks, whom they saw
as a "backward race," than their own soldiers.
The echoes of Darwin's hostility to the Turks continued to ring after
the First World War. The European Neo-Nazi groups who treacherously
attack the Turks in Europe still draw their inspiration from Darwin's stupid
nonsense about the Turkish nation. Darwin's words about the Turks are still
to be found on the Internet pages of these racist enemies of the Turks. (See
the chapter on The Bloody Alliance Between Darwin and Hitler.)
Racism and Social Darwinism
in America
Social Darwinism provided support for racists and imperialists in
other countries too, not just Britain. For this reason it spread quickly
through the whole world. At the head of those subscribing to the theory
came U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was the foremost pro-
ponent and implementer of the programme of ethnic cleansing applied
against the Native Americans under the name of "forced relocation." In
the book The Winning of the West, he founded the ideology of massacre,
maintaining that a racial war to the finish with the Indians was
inevitable. 25 His greatest prop was Darwinism, which gave him the
chance to define the natives as a backward species.
As Roosevelt had foreseen, none of the treaties with the Native
Americans were respected, and this too was provided a false justification
under the "backward race" theory. In 1871, Congress disregarded all the