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Adnan Harun Yahya

state and entered the dreadful decade of constant wars that started with Balkan

Wars of 1912 and ended with the Turkish War of Independence in 1922,
without an army or a navy.

The appalling state of the navy became clear only when the Greco-Turk-
ish war broke out in 1897. At the onset of the war, the officers planned a pas-

sage of the navy from the Golden Horn to Dardanelles as a tour de force.
However, as soon as the movement started, three out of the eight boilers of

the ironclad Mesudiye exploded, and the engine room of Hamidiye was flood-
ed. The ships were supposed to meet off the shore of Yeşilköy, but a mere light

drizzle was enough to cause them to get lost. Hamidiye went to Lapseki in-
stead of Dardanelles, while the ironclad Hizber got lost. Two days later, she

was found beached on the island of İmralı. 138

Already without a navy at the onset of WWI, the Ottoman Empire once
again fell for the games of the British deep state and never received the dread-

noughts Sultan Osman and Reşadiye from Britain, although it had fully paid
for them. Clearly, the British deep state had long before plotted with detail

how the Ottoman Empire should have been destroyed with WWI.