Page 542 - Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed

Liberation of Istanbul

A fter the Turkish troops saved Izmir from enemy occupation on Sep-

tember 9, 1922, they turned north, to the Dardanelles Strait. As the
Turkish and British armies engaged each other between September

15 and 23, discussions raged on in the British Parliament. Some wanted
peace, while others pressed on to continue fighting. Finally, on September

23, it was decided that East Thrace and Istanbul be given to the Turks and
right after that, on October 11, 1922, the Armistice of Mudanya, which offi-

cially ended the Ottoman Empire and certified the end of the Turkish War
of Independence, was signed. Thus, the 100-year-old plan of the British deep

state on Anatolia came to a complete end by means of the Anatolian inde-
pendence movement led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The deep state held

Prime Minister Lloyd George responsible for this failure and forced him to
step down. George, from that point on, would never be influential again in

British politics.

British troops did retreat from Istanbul, but kept their military presence

intact in Mosul, Iraq, Arabia and Kuwait. The British deep state didn't aban-
don its efforts of producing an Israel and Palestine issue. It never stopped
interfering in Suez and Egypt, Syria or Jordan, never gave up on provoking

the Kurds. The system the British deep state built in the Middle East after

Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed