Page 433 - Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed

Adnan Harun Yahya

Gladstone remained in power between 1880-1885 as Prime Minister and,

during his term of office, the anti-Turkish sentiment spread immensely. The
media, in particular, carried out an intense indoctrination with regards to the

Turkish and Ottoman identities. Fake news of 'Turkish barbarity' and 'Turk-
ish violence' spread like wildfire. Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the British MP

who observed the Turkish-Greek war of 1897 at the battlefield, mentions the
hostile policy that the British suddenly unleashed against the Turks in his

memoirs:

The most violent denunciations and the most vituperative epithets were
indulged in during the ten months after December, 1894, and were based

upon journalistic fictions… These stories either had no existence whatever in
reality, or rested on the most slender basis of fact.

By atrocity-mongering and sham sentiment, I mean two things: first, the

charge against a nation or power of atrocities which do not exist… For nine
months the Sultan, the Turkish Government, the Turkish army, and the

Turkish people were vilified and attacked in England for alleged atrocities…
which never had any existence at all. … These horrible atrocities never exist-
ed; the stories were absolute fiction... 253

While the British tried to show Ottomans as a barbarous, backward,
primitive and violent society using absurd lies, they were also giving the sub-

liminal message that the Ottoman Empire had to be brought
down. Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith said in a

speech that the Ottoman Empire was on its deathbed
and maintained that the sick man would not revive

again. 254

This entire propaganda operation was carried
out in tandem with the British deep state's opera-

tion to dismember the Ottoman Empire. In 1898,
the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury sent a

telegram to the British ambassador at St. Petersburg
suggesting a 'partition of preponderance' 255 between
Lord Salisbury
Russia and Britain in the Ottoman Empire confirming
the existence of this strategy.