Lale Eskicioglu [ll@readliterature.com]
10 gun kadar once seyahate giderken havaalanindaki gazetecide bir dergi gorduk, kapaginda Ataturk’un resmi ve meshur sozleri: “Soldiers! I am not ordering you to fight. I am ordering you to die!” Dergiyi hemen aldik ve okuduk. Makalenin basligi “Collapse of the Ottoman Empire Still Creating Crises Today” pek ic acici degil, tam da 24 Nisan zamani, bol miktarda soykirim propagandasi okuyacagimizi dusunduk: (“Among the leading European states, only Germany, a latecomer to imperial aspirations, proved willing to ignore the butchery the empire’s new wave of Turkish nationalists inflicted on Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and other subject peoples.“)
Ote yandan yazi Ataturk’u ove ove bitiremiyor. (Tabii “heavy drinker, womanizer” demeden edemiyor.)
Sonra da 9/11 saldirilarini Osmanli devletinin devrilip, Araplarin yeni ulkeler halinde dunyaya bas belasi olmasina bagliyor. Yani tam bir odak noktasi olmayan ve amacinin ne oldugu tam anlasilamayan bir yazi.Maalesef yaziyi internet’den okuma olanagi yok, ancak su noktaya kadar varilabiliniyor: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/may-2010-issue-collapse-of-the-ottoman-empire.htm
Ben her sayfayi tek tek scan edip KanadaGundem grubumuzun internet sayfasina koydum, oradan bakabilirsiniz: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KanadaGundem/photos/recent/list
Bazi konu basliklari su sekilde:
* Unleashing the devils: The Ottoman collapse still creates crises today.
* The British, who would be the Turks’ primary military antagonists, expected the Turks to crumble at the first good blow.
* Arab nationalism had begun to stir, reaching every nook of the Ottoman realm.
* Without Allenby’s victories, Lawrence of Arabia would not have merited a footnote.
* A military genius unappreciated in the West, Kemal broke the rules of the battlefield.
* The Arab states that eventually emerged from the Ottoman collapse and European land-grabs have been described as “tribes with flags.”
* Perhaps the most disastrous effect of the end of Ottoman rule was that it allowed Wahhabism to escape the Arabian Peninsula in force.
Ve bir alinti:
“It seemed that everybody had been promised everything, and everybody wanted everything. King Hussein expected to rule over all the Arabs. The Arabs of Syria and Mesopotamia expected independence, as did Armenians and Kurds. The French tried to seize Lebanon and Syria with too few troops. The British moved covertly to undercut them. London and the British military differed on Zionism, with the former pro-Jewish and the latter viciously pro-Arab. The Italians wailed for their slice of the victory pie. French troops landed on the Turkish coast, grabbing more than Paris had gained on paper. Egyptians demanded independence. The Americans didn’t want territory, but expected oil concessions (in the course of the war, the criticality of oil had finally dawned on the world’s statesmen). Against mounting evidence, the British remained convinced that Arabs wanted nothing more than Britain’s benign rule through local front men – but the Arabs wanted every non-Muslim occupier gone. Exploiting the situation, the Greeks sought a new Empire in Asia Minor.”
Kapak resmini buraya dahil ederek bitiriyorum, umarim yaziyi okumak isteyenler KanadaGundem’in web access sayfasindan fotograf olarak yuklenmis sayfalari okuyabilirler.
Lale
Armchair General Dergisi – ON SAYFASI
Bilgin Bey dikkatime getirdi, makalenin yazari Ralph Peters daha once “boyle daha iyi olur” diyerek hayalindeki Orta Dogu haritasini cizmis, Ermenistan, Kurdistan, herkes mutlu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Ralph_Peters_solution_to_Mideast.jpgDaha fazla Ralph Peters bilgisi icin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Peters
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