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Adnan Harun Yahya

to turn this Christian minority on Ottoman lands into an advantage for them.

Britain was the most ardent and determined one.

The British "Royal Geographical Society" and "Society for Promoting

Christian Knowledge" were particularly active in missionary activities. Before
we delve further into these historical facts, let us remember one more time a

very important truth: being a missionary is a holy activity that people carry
out to spread their faith and communicate the religion they believe in. How-

ever, the missionaries that will be mentioned here were not seeking to carry
out such a duty; on the contrary, they were spies of the British deep state

charged with carrying out its dirty tasks, but disguised as missionaries. So
much so, those so-called missionaries sent by the said organizations func-

tioned just like intelligence officers on Turkish lands and studied the social
order and the power of state authority in the region. They determined the

methods that could be used to provoke this community that had a different
ethnical background against the state administration.

Nestorian Riots and the British Deep State Efforts

Nestorians had rioted twice against the Ottoman Empire, in 1843 and

1846, but they were suppressed. During WWI, they clashed with the Kurdish

tribes in Southeast Anatolia and East Anatolia. The Ottoman archives men-
tion the rivalry between Protestant British and American missionaries and
Orthodox Russians to win over the Nestorians during these years and that
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the problems between Nestorians and Kurds escalated due to these suppos-

edly missionary activities. 398 Indeed, after having lived together peacefully,
tensions began to arise between these two communities which later turned
into bloody clashes when the British deep state came onto the scene and start-

ed its activities in the region under the guise of missionary activities in the

19th century. 399

During the Kurdish-Nestorian clashes in 1843, British missionaries led
by George Percy Badger used clothes, food, and money to curry favor with

the Nestorians while the Nestorian Patriarch sought refuge in the British
Consulate. This is an indication of how the members of the British deep state
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considered Nestorians as an ideal means to help them gain a foothold in the