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Adnan Harun Yahya

Media Censorship during the British Occupation

Turkish Historian and author Atilla Oral explains the days of occupation
as follows:

The enemy fleet that anchored in Bosphorus Strait had very important du-

ties. They didn't stay in Istanbul for five years only to keep up the appearance.
It was a part of a sinister and strategically devised plan of intimidation. 302

The intimidation tactics were meant to suppress people and to break
their spirit. The propaganda targeting the people was considered important,

because the British deep state wanted to stop people's support for the na-
tionalist movement.

As explained previously, the British deep state sought to impair the 'na-

tionalist and patriotic values' of the peoples since the beginning. The main
reason was because when a society strays away from such values, its down-

fall comes very quickly. The British deep state surmised that a movement un-
supported by the public would no longer be 'national' and therefore concen-

trated on psychological anti-propaganda.

For the British deep state, one of the ways to do that was censorship of

the media. Therefore, during the occupation, the Turkish press was heavily
censored. The newspapers were first examined by the censor officers work-

ing for the British deep state before they were published, and any content or
picture not found suitable was not allowed to be printed. If the British deep

state didn't approve a certain photograph or writing, it would be removed.
As a result, many newspapers during that time had to be printed with emp-

ty columns. It was a major crime to publish pictures not carrying the remark
"Censored by Allied Authorities - The Censor".

The entire visual evidence of the crimes committed by the British deep

state against humanity was thus almost completely obliterated. For a long
time, it wasn't possible to locate any pictures proving that Istanbul was ever

occupied, due to the British deep state's systematic move to collect all war pho-
tos. When these photos were later retrieved from the British archives, the

Turkish people were taken aback. Atilla Oral explains how he got a hold of
those pictures: