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Adnan Harun Yahya

According to Cyrus Hamlin, the founder and first president of the Amer-

ican Robert College in Istanbul, the anti-Turkish propaganda of the British
began prior to WWI. A 'propaganda bureau' was set up in 1870 in London,

with the duty of spreading news against Turkey in other countries and man-
aging the relevant propaganda. This propaganda was the first step toward
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the British deep state's dream of 'a divided Ottoman Empire'.

William Ewart Gladstone, who served as the British Prime Minister from

1880 to 1885, was among the inventors of this policy. Gladstone uttered nu-
merous insults against the Turkish nation and sought to use those insults to

support his imperialist projects that involved aspirations such as to drive the
Turks back to the steppes of Central Asia for the continuation of their civi-

lization. Once he said that the so-called evil actions of Turks can be elimi-
nated only when they are eliminated. (The Noble Turkish nation is above
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such words)

Ahmet İhsan, a member of the Committee of Union and Progress, also
mentioned Gladstone's approach in his memoir:

Notorious Gladstone held up a Qur'an in British parliament and said that as
long as Turks walk with this Book, they are harmful to civilization. 251 (The
Qur'an is above such remarks)

In addition to such outrageous remarks, Gladstone didn't refrain from
producing propaganda material against the Turks. In his book Bulgarian Hor-

rors and the Question of the East that was widely disseminated in London, he
actively sought to provoke the British people against the Turkish nation. For

instance, he said, "Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only pos-
sible manner, namely by carrying off themselves."

The anti-Turkish propaganda was so intense, even the Conservative gov-
ernment that had previously been amicable to Turkey, changed its stance. An-
dré Maurois writes in his book A History of England, "Gladstone kindled

British opinion against them [the Turks] by pamphleteering and speech-mak-

ing…" 252