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Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross Classic Reprint written by E. F. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Crescent and Iron Cross In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as deal with recent and contemporary events in Turkey or in Germany in connection with Turkey: the chapter, for instance, entitled 'Deutschland uber Allah, ' is based very largely on such documents. I have tried to be discriminating in their use, and have not, as far as I am aware, stated anything derived from them as a fact, for which I had not found corroborative evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross written by Edward Frederic Benson and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed that they were going to weld the Ottoman Empire into one homogeneous and harmonious whole. But by a piece of brilliant paradoxical reasoning, says Mr. Benson, Germany determined that it was she who was going to do it for them... The process resulted in the first Genocide of the Twentieth Century, the Armenian Genocide, as well as countless massacres and atrocities towards other Ottoman minorities, the Greeks, Arabs, Assyrians, Bulgarians...

Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross written by E F Benson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries before the Osmanli Turks made their appearance in Asia Minor, there had come from out of the misty East numerous bodies of Turks, pushing westwards, and spreading over the Euphrates valley and over Persia, in nomadic or military colonisations, and it is not until the thirteenth century that we find the Osmanli Turks, who give their name to that congregation of races known as the Ottoman Empire, established in the north-west corner of Asia Minor. Like all previous Turkish immigrations, they came not in any overwhelming horde, with sword in one hand and Koran in the other, but as a small compact body with a genius for military organisation, and the gift, which they retain to this day, of stalwart fighting. The policy to which they owed their growth was absorption, and the people whom they first began to absorb were Greeks and other Christians, and it was to a Christian girl, Nilufer, that Osman married his son Orkhan. They took Christian youths from the families of Greek dwellers, forced them to apostatise, gave them military training, and married them to Turkish girls. It was out of this blend of Greek and Turkish blood, as Mr. D.G. Hogarth points out, that they derived their national being and their national strength. This system of recruiting they steadily pursued not only among the Christian peoples with whom they came in contact, but among the settlements of Turks who had preceded them in this process of pushing westwards, and formed out of them the professional soldiery known as Janissaries. They did not fight for themselves alone, but as mercenaries lent their arms to other peoples, Moslem and Christian alike, who would hire their services. This was a policy that paid well, for, after having delivered some settlement from the depredations of an inconvenient neighbour, and with their pay in their pocket, they sometimes turned on those who had hired their arms, took their toll of youths, and finally incorporated them in their growing empire. Like an insatiable sponge, they mopped up the sprinklings of disconnected peoples over the fruitful floor of Asia Minor, and swelled and prospered. But as yet the extermination of these was not part of their programme: they absorbed the strength and manhood of their annexations into their own soldiery, and came back for more. They did not levy those taxes paid in the persons of soldiers for their armies from their co-religionists, since Islam may not fight against Islam, but by means of peaceful penetration (a policy long since abandoned) they united scattered settlements of Turks to themselves by marriages and the bond of a common tongue and religion.

Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross written by Edward F Benson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maker of phrases plies a dangerous trade. Very often his phrase is applicable for the momentand for the situation in view of which he coined it, but his coin has only a temporary validity: it isgood for a month or for a year, or for whatever period during which the crisis lasts, and after that itlapses again into a mere token, a thing without value and without meaning. But the phrase cannot, asin the case of a monetary coinage, at once be recalled, for it has gone broadcast over the land, or, atany rate, it is not recalled, and it goes on being passed from hand to hand, its image andsuperscription defaced by wear, long after it has ceased to represent anything. In itself it is obsolete, but people still trade with it, and think it represents what it represented when it came hot from theMint. And, unfortunately, it sometimes happens that it is worse than valueless; it becomes a forgery(which it may not have been when it came into circulation), and deceives those who traffic with it, flattering them with an unfounded possession.Such a phrase, which still holds currency, was once coined by Lord Aberdeen in the period of theCrimean War. 'Turkey is a sick man, ' he said, and added something which gave great offence thenabout the advisability of putting Turkey out of his misery. I do not pretend to quote correctly, butthat was the gist of it. Nor do I challenge the truth of Lord Aberdeen's phrase at the period when hemade it. It possibly contained a temporary truth, a valid point of view, which, if it had been acted on, might have saved a great deal of trouble afterwards, but it missed then, and more than misses now, the essential and salient truth about Turkey. The phrase, unfortunately, still continued to obtaincredit, and nowadays it is a forgery; it rings f

Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross written by Edward Benson and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" asked Hitler in 1939 as he invaded Poland and started a holocaust. Perhaps if the world would have paid attention to the prosecution of Christians by the Turks who were allied with the Germans during the First World War, WWII would not have happened. Given the present day situation in Syria and the reported crimes against Christians, E.F. Benson's book remains relevant as it provides a valuable historic background.

Download or read book Crescent and Iron Cross written by E F Benson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries before the Osmanli Turks made their appearance in Asia Minor, there had come from out of the misty East numerous bodies of Turks, pushing westwards, and spreading over the Euphrates valley and over Persia, in nomadic or military colonisations, and it is not until the thirteenth century that we find the Osmanli Turks, who give their name to that congregation of races known as the Ottoman Empire, established in the north-west corner of Asia Minor. Like all previous Turkish immigrations, they came not in any overwhelming horde, with sword in one hand and Koran in the other, but as a small compact body with a genius for military organisation, and the gift, which they retain to this day, of stalwart fighting. The policy to which they owed their growth was absorption, and the people whom they first began to absorb were Greeks and other Christians, and it was to a Christian girl, Nilufer, that Osman married his son Orkhan. They took Christian youths from the families of Greek dwellers, forced them to apostatise, gave them military training, and married them to Turkish girls. It was out of this blend of Greek and Turkish blood, as Mr. D.G. Hogarth points out, that they derived their national being and their national strength. This system of recruiting they steadily pursued not only among the Christian peoples with whom they came in contact, but among the settlements of Turks who had preceded them in this process of pushing westwards, and formed out of them the professional soldiery known as Janissaries. They did not fight for themselves alone, but as mercenaries lent their arms to other peoples, Moslem and Christian alike, who would hire their services. This was a policy that paid well, for, after having delivered some settlement from the depredations of an inconvenient neighbour, and with their pay in their pocket, they sometimes turned on those who had hired their arms, took their toll of youths, and finally incorporated them in their growing empire. Like an insatiable sponge, they mopped up the sprinklings of disconnected peoples over the fruitful floor of Asia Minor, and swelled and prospered. But as yet the extermination of these was not part of their programme: they absorbed the strength and manhood of their annexations into their own soldiery, and came back for more. They did not levy those taxes paid in the persons of soldiers for their armies from their co-religionists, since Islam may not fight against Islam, but by means of peaceful penetration (a policy long since abandoned) they united scattered settlements of Turks to themselves by marriages and the bond of a common tongue and religion.

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