This book emphasizes the fall of the Ottoman Empire for two reasons. Firstly, the fall of the Ottoman Empire eliminated the only real adversary the Soviets would face in their expansion into Eastern Europe and Asia. The elimination of this ‘jihad state’, which officially engaged in jihad in the region, also meant that the Middle East would be secured for Illuminati activity. This will play a crucial role in World War III. The second major adversary of the Soviet Union, the Japanese Empire, was taken out in the Second World War. Secondly, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and with it, the straits of Istanbul, was crucial for the planned Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle
248 Irfan Orga & Margarete Orga, Ataturk (London: Michael Joseph, 1962) 30. 249 Orga, Ataturk 32.
East. Although this plan never came to fruition, it was an important hidden component of the World Wars.
The Ottoman Empire was dragged into World War I in October 1914 on grounds of a secret alliance with Germany. Ottoman leadership and Ottoman royalty were compromised by the Illuminati, but not as badly as German leadership. Compromised elements within the Ottomans wholeheartedly acquiesced to gestures of friendship from Germany. The result was an influx of Germans, and German influence over the Ottoman military machine. The Powers that Be now had a direct foothold in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, and could engineer Ottoman defeat from their centers in Europe. The two Empires had been earmarked for doom, and the smokescreen of a World War was all that was needed to send them to their graves.
The exact machinations, which lead to the Ottomans agreeing to gamble their entire centuries old empire in this rigged sweepstake, require further investigation. Nesta Webster credits the CUP for delivering the Ottoman state into this alliance of doom.250 She pointedly refers to Djavid Bey and
Talat Pasha as the architects of this alliance.251 From what can be
discerned, the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid had first instigated the alliance by responding to the friendly overtures of the Kaiser in 1898. Prior to this alliance, various efforts were made by the Illuminati rulers of Germany to seek friendship. For example, Kaiser Wilhelm indulged in theatrics, such as wearing a fez on official visits and circulating rumors that he had embraced Islam during a pilgrimage to Mecca!252 The
Germans went further than just making friendly gestures. They were suspected in the assassination of Shevket Pasha,253 Enver’s Minister of
War who was persuading Enver that an alliance with Germany was not in the best interests of the Ottoman Empire.
250 Nesta H. Webster, The Cause of World Unrest – With an Introduction by the Editor
of The Morning Post (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1920) 143.
251 Webster, World Unrest 146. Webster saw the German “alliance” as predatory and
part of the CUP revolution conspiracy. She claimed that after a similar revolution overthrew Portuguese Royalty, their overseas colonies were absorbed by Germany. To quote, “[…] we see an alien movement seizing authority and overthrowing the established forms of Government and religion and the predatory German coming in to seize the spoils (154-155).”
252 Channel4.com, “The First World War,” Channel 4
< http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/F/firstworldwar/cont_jihad_1.html> Accessed 23/10/06.
As mentioned before, many sincere and capable Muslims had joined the CUP, and risen in its ranks to leave behind the actual Illuminati operatives in obscurity. If the Powers that Be would deny them leadership, it would expose the fledgling CUP as a conspiratorial organization. For example, the activities of Minister of War Enver Pasha were critical to the early success of the CUP. Therefore he rose within the CUP, despite his non-Illuminati credentials. He may have been allowed his major role so that he could be used as a scapegoat to transfer the burden of defeat from the conspirators. Of all officials, only Enver Pasha is credited as the architect of the German alliance by establishment historians. Some modern Turkish historians have gone to considerable lengths to defame him, accusing him of everything from military failures to the Armenian genocide. There is indeed, a certain degree of culpability on behalf of Enver, for making the German alliance a success. But this does not justify his scapegoating. German military methods affected the impressionable Enver.254 And when he returned from Berlin, he brought
with him a German Military Mission to reorganize the Ottoman Army. The key figures in this mission were:
a. Colonel Otto Liman von Sanders, who was made Inspector General of the Turkish Army, only one degree lower than Enver.255
b. General Baron von der Goltz, who took over command of the Black Sea Army Corps.
c. General Bronsart von Schellendorf, who became a technical advisor to Enver.256
d. General Kress von Kressenstein, who was made Chief of Staff of Djemal Pasha.257
Such major German presence did not guarantee that the Ottoman Empire was to ally with Germany when World War I broke out. Britain was still a possible ally. But when an Ottoman Mission was sent to London, it was given a cold shoulder.258 Obviously, the Powers that Be sought no last
minute alterations to their plans. To further alienate the Ottoman Empire, the British deliberately infuriated Turkish public opinion. The Turkish public had contributed for two battleships to be built by Britain for Turkey, at a cost of four million pounds. Collection boxes had been set 254 Orga, Ataturk 49. 255 Orga, Ataturk 50. 256 Orga, Ataturk 50. 257 Orga, Ataturk 50. 258 Orga, Ataturk 56.
up outside mosques, coffee houses and railway stations.259 The last
installment had been paid, and the battleships were to be handed over on 2nd August 1914. Turkish crew was already in Britain waiting to take
command, and special celebrations had been planned in Istanbul. On August 3rd, Winston Churchill declared that the battleships had been
embargoed, and a day later, the Royal Navy acquired them.
This move was meant to prod the Ottoman leadership into an alliance with Germany. The Germans simultaneously presented two battleships as a gesture of friendship. Since the whole drama was being orchestrated by the Powers that Be, these German battleships were already in the Western Mediterranean at that time, and had strangely evaded British warships. Despite the fact that Britain had declared war with Germany on August 4th, and its Navy had been on high alert in the Mediterranean,
where the British traditionally held supremacy. The two German battleships showed up at Dardenelles, and requested permission to be let through the Straits. Enver realized that allowing them through would be an act of formalizing an Ottoman-German alliance. He countered Allied protests with the argument that the ships were now part of the Turkish Navy,260 and thus averted being trapped into entangling the Ottoman
Empire into a confrontation with the Allies. These ships were later used to bombard the Russian Black Sea ports.
But by October 31st 1914, the
Ottoman Empire was eventually dragged into the war.