Page 131 - Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed

Adnan Harun Yahya

The building of the Ottoman Public Debts Administration
(Düyun-u Umumiye), which operated under British Deep State control

fish taxes, which comprised more than one third of the state's budget. An-

other reason for the selection of these particular items was that these taxes
were the easiest to collect, not to mention the most dependable.

Officers from the Ottoman Public Debt Administration under British
control would go and seize the produce of farmers and collect taxes with the

help of the gendarme forces. Numerous cases of cruel treatment at the hands
of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration officers that used gendarme for

their purposes can be found in historical accounts.

The Republic of Turkey that was born out of the ashes of the Ottoman
Empire took over these massive debts that spelled the end of the Empire.

However, it was only one century later when the young republic was able to
completely pay them off. It should be noted that in 1838, when the Treaty of

Balta Liman was signed with the British, the Ottoman Empire had no foreign
debts. However, the sinister British deep state plans made the Ottomans not

only heavily indebted, but turned its many previous allies into adversaries,
most notably Russia.