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Adnan Harun Yahya
the efforts of the British deep state and the relevant me-
dia propaganda in the country.
However, there were many sensible people at
the time who refused to give into this racist
trend in Britain and Europe, and could appre-
ciate the Turkish people. For instance, the
British officer Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
th
who travelled to Turkey at the end of 19 cen-
tury is one of those rare personalities. His de-
scriptions in his book On Horseback Through
Asia Minor give an unbiased and accurate ac-
count of the Ottoman Empire at the time. At a Frederick Gustavus
Burnaby
time when Turkophobia was at its peak in Britain,
this British officer was in Anatolia and explained
what he saw:
Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden", published in The New York
Sun on February 10, 1899, implied that John Bull –the symbol of Britain– and
Uncle Sam –the symbol of the USA– ruled the non-white peoples of the Earth.