Liseye giden insanlara bile tarihi çocuk masalı gibi anlatıyor eğitim sistemimiz. "İtalyanlar biz ne dersek tamam deyip savaştan çekildi" gibi anlatılıyor. Oysa kapitülasyon benzeri ekonomik avantajlar istemişler, hatta sonradan Osmanlı hükümetiyle gizli anlaşma yapmışlar.
"According to the terms of the accord, the Italians were to withdraw their troops from Anatolia, recognize Turkish sovereignty, and support a peace acceptable to the nation-alists in Ankara. In return, Turkey was to grant Italy economic concessions within the region designated by the Treaty of Sèvres as the Italian sphere of inf l uence, and even outside it (specif i cally in the Heraclea coal mines). In the event, Mustafa Kemal refused to ratify this agreement because he found the economic concessions too reminiscent of the reviled capitulations"
In addition to settling the northeastern boundaries of Turkey, the Russians secretly pledged to provide ten million gold rubles, as well as sufficient weaponry and ammunition to arm two divisions, in order to help the nation-alist government fi ght Western imperialism. It was the reliable flow of Russian gold and armaments that made possible the pros-ecution of the war against the Greeks and thus secured the inde-pendence of Turkey.
the imperial government, which had obtained a fatwā from the Şeyhülislâm de-claring Mustafa Kemal and his comrades brigands and proclaiming their killing a duty incumbent upon all Muslims.
İttihat ve Terakki partisinin milli mücadelede bazı faydaları olduğunu iddia ediyor. Gayet mantıklı.
"CUP branches turned themselves into Societies for the Defense of National Rights to oppose Allied schemes of partition."
Bizden bişey olmaz, biz kendimizi Amerika'ya bırakalım, o bizi düzeltsin demişler resmen. Kendini tarikata, cemaate mürit eden kul eden zihniyetin bir farklı çeşidi.
Some Turkist members of the CUP were naive enough to form a “Wilson’s Principles Society” in order to further the cause of a fair resolution. They even considered the possibility of an American mandate for a fixed period, thinking that “America, which had turned a savage land like the Philippines into a machine capable of administering itself,” would do a much better job in Turkey in a span of fifteen or twenty years.