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Underneath this relentless anti-Ottoman propaganda of the British deep

state lay the glaring truth that they promoted enmity towards the Turks. The
leaders of the British deep state, as a reflection of their imperialist way of

thinking, sought to justify their actions by labeling the nations they targeted
as "backward, primitive and barbarous". A letter written by British Sir Edward

Grey on August 11, 1908, following the declaration of the Second Constitu-
tional Period, reflects this sentiment clearly:

What has happened already in Turkey is so marvellous that I suppose it is not
impossible that she will establish a Constitution, but it may well be that the
habit of vicious and corrupt government will be too strong for reform and that

animosities of race ... will again produce violence and disorder. 256

Lord Salisbury wrote the following about the Turks in a confidential doc-

ument of 1911:

As anti-Turk propaganda raged on in the West, different ethnicities were living
together in peace under Ottoman rule.
(Above) A painting of festival celebrations where people from different faiths
were spending time together in the Ottoman Empire.

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