The Young Turks who dethroned Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1909 exiled the sultan to Thessaloniki and imprisoned him in the house of a Jewish banker called Allatini.
All territories owned by the sultan were nationalized and Jews were allowed to settle in Palestine by the Young Turks. While they offended all Ottoman communities with their Turkification politics, they rubbed elbows with the Jews because they helped the Young Turks seize power.
There were many Jews, Freemasons and Sabataists among the Young Turks. One of them, Jewish banker and freemason Emmanuel Carasso, was a friend of Grand Vizier Talat Pasha and a member of the delegation that declared to Sultan Abdülhamid II his dethronement.
Thessaloniki deputy Carasso was the most powerful person of his time and also the organizer of Jewish migration to Palestine. The Young Turks paid their debt via helping Carasso multiply his fortune and allowing him to carry out a black food market during the Great War.
The group made a deal with then British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour in 1917. With the Balfour Declaration, the British Empire gave the green light to a Jewish state on Palestinian lands.
When the Ottoman army under the command of Mustafa KAmal was defeated in Syria, Palestine was occupied by the British in 1918.It is a general principle that the occupying forces are not allowed to take action against private property: Only the state owned lands change hands. Hence, the lands owned by Sultan Abdülhamid and seized by the Young Turks were taken over by the British.
Following the British occupation, the Jewish settlement in Palestine increased. Now, the Jews were also able to purchase lands. Arabs were forced to sell their land as they were economically under pressure and disadvantaged.
And from that moment start the Zulum, pain and sadness began in the Muslim world. They have captured ABDULHAMID, the caliphate destroyed, a new land card with ruler signed. And someone like Mustafa kAmal put at the head of the Turks. That for years has murdered the well-believer Muslims, put him in jail or expelled from the country.
Standing: 1. Vranski (Aubrey Herbert), 2. Mustafa Kemal, 3. Dr. Tasca Spasov, 4. Cemal Pasha (grandfather of journalist Hasan Cemal), 5. Hacı Dımov
Seated: 6. Kozarav, 7. Resneli Niyazi, 8. Sandanski, 9. Todor Panice, 10. Edward Joris (Armenian who assassinated Abdulhamid)
