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May 5th, 2012, 07:52 AM
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#41 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Lawnmowerman  So more of a duty to go fight for some other country then their own???
Get real this whole muslim brotherhood thing is only a very rescent invention. A 1915 muslim wouldn't give a crap about whats happening in Turkey, when his own homeland is at war.
Just look at the way the British used the arabs to fight the Turks. | Your position is based on prejudice and ignorance.
A lot of muslims came from middle-east to fight in Gallipoli under one banner. Also from the middle-east. On this photo you even see Ataturk with bedouin soldiers. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2/Ataturk5.JPG | | | 
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May 5th, 2012, 08:00 AM
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#42 | | Cutting your grass
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,676 |
And this is a photo of Hitler and a deer, what does it show??? 
Absolutley nothing of any relevance what so ever, except the that Hitler once fed a deer food.
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May 5th, 2012, 08:16 AM
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#43 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Lawnmowerman And this is a photo of Hitler and a deer, what does it show???
Absolutley nothing of any relevance what so ever, except the that Hitler once fed a deer food. | If he used that dear to fight his enemies you would have made a point.
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May 5th, 2012, 09:12 AM
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#44 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2012 From: City 17 Posts: 2,911 | Quote:
Originally Posted by macro Your position is based on prejudice and ignorance.
A lot of muslims came from middle-east to fight in Gallipoli under one banner. Also from the middle-east. On this photo you even see Ataturk with bedouin soldiers. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2/Ataturk5.JPG | that could be the case but that photo was taken in Libya during Italo-Turkish War.
some disinformation in your post.
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May 5th, 2012, 10:13 AM
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#46 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Infestor can I ask your ethnicity?
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May 5th, 2012, 12:16 PM
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#47 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2012 From: Karachi Posts: 1,015 |
Is it relevant?
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May 5th, 2012, 12:21 PM
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#48 | | Suspended indefinitely
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@lazyguy
It doesn't have to be and I didn't ask you.
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May 5th, 2012, 04:55 PM
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#49 | | Cutting your grass
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,676 |
I'm not saying that Arabs didn't fight on the Turkish side. I'm sure some did.
What I am saying is that Bosnian/Albanian/Croatian soldiers didn't fight for the Turks in any meaningfull way, and the most certainly didn't enroll enmass upon hearing of the Gallipoli landings.
More Arabs fought for the British against the Turks than Bosnian/Albanian/Croatians for the Turks.
It would be intresting to find out the amount of Arabs fighting for the Turks compared to the amount fighting for the British.
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May 5th, 2012, 05:03 PM
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#50 | | Cutting your grass
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,676 |
HMM it appears that after the Ottomans the Arabs where the next biggest ethenic group within the Ottoman army. However when the Arab revolt began to pick up steam in 1916 large numbers of them deserted to the British.
Unfortuantly I can't find any figures on this. Time to start a new thread I think.
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