Page 463 - Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed

Adnan Harun Yahya

In other words, no sources were provided in the British deep state pub-

lications, and the Turks were unfairly targeted as these fake allegations were
blindly served to the American public. It must be remembered that the true

target of the British deep state propaganda was the masses that were unaware
of the truths about WWI and the Middle East. Almost all news reports read

by the American and British public during those days were penned by the
British deep state propagandists. British and American people were deceived

with these untrue accounts. This is how the American historian McCarthy,
who exposed the unfair treatment of Turks, expresses his astonishment that

the said deceitful propaganda continues today:

More astonishing is the fact that British propaganda against the Turks has
been ignored in scholarly publications on wartime propaganda. Every serious

scholarly study of British propaganda during World War I rightly labels
British propaganda against the Germans as a carefully constructed attack on
the truth in the interests of victory. The same studies do not even consider

British propaganda against the Turks, except when it also was an attack on
the Germans. What British propagandists did to the Germans they also did
to the Turks, yet no one has seemed to care. Propaganda against the Germans

has been condemned while the calumnies against the Turks live on. The in-
famous Bryce Report on the Armenians is republished and quoted … It has

acquired a patina of respectability as an "Accepted and Reliable Source," while
the Bryce Report against the Germans properly lies unread on dusty library
shelves. Annotated bibliographies on World War I or on genocide as a topic

prominently feature the Report and other British propaganda publications di-
rected against Turks, without any identification of them for what they were.

The common rules of historical criticism, which include verification of sources,
have not been applied. In fact, the Bryce Report on the Ottoman Armenians
should be consigned to the same historical dustbin as the Bryce Report on the

Germans. It is only a reliable source on the history of propaganda, not on the
history of the Middle East. 288