'The Turkish and Pan-Turkish Ideal by Tekin Alp' [‎15v] (35/58)

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Pan-Slavism, and keep her shut up in the Black Sea. Russia, who is
unable to overcome both these obstacles at once, first directed her
attention to the smaller of the two, and chose to make her first attacks
against the weaker and presumably more easily overcome of her two
enemies.
Then began a period extending over hundreds of years, during
which the Turks were obliged to resist endless attacks of every different
kind. In spite of her great conquests, victories, and successes, Turkey
has never been able to remain strong outside, and was therefore not
absolutely successful in repelling these long, stubborn attacks of the
Russian tyrants, and the world saw the Russian bear gradually devouring
one limb after another from its victim’s body. So were lost the northern
frontier provinces, and so, gradually, in the course of many terrible battles,
the provinces on the northern, eastern, and western coast of the Black
Sea. The Russians attempted at the same time to free the Southern
Slav races from the Turkish dominion, and give the separate nations
their independence, thus forming in Turkey’s very territory a number
of small, but no less dangerous foes. In this they were successful, and the
small Balkan kingdoms were founded. The last blow to the Turks, and
not the least disastrous, was the Balkan Union and consequent Balkan
War, which was the grim and terrible forerunner of the present world
war.
The Turks were almost entirely overwhelmed by Europe, and had
it not been for the irony of fate which brought about the horrible discords
among the Southern Slavs, causing them to attack each other like hungry
wolves around their stolen prey, the Russian ideal would have approached
realization more quickly. Russia would have been able to protect her
free exit into the Mediterranean by means of the Southern Slav puppet-
states.
Immediately after the Balkan War, Russia began to make prepara
tion for a new blow, the reforms in Eastern Anatolia South-east Turkey today. .
If Russia had been able then to realize her first ideal of free exit
into the Mediterranean, her efforts would have immediately been directed
against Germany in order to attain her second goal—union with the
southern seas.
In her work of destruction Russia found an unnatural ally, a
degenerate branch of the Teuton race—England. Two monsters were
united in the same purpose, the colossus of darkest barbarism and the
cruellest oppression joined with the colossus of a degenerate civilization
and shameless exploitation of his people. This England, whose Moham
medan subjects possessed a dangerous centre of attraction in the Caliphate,
which might well wrest from her her authority over them, wished for this
very reason to get possession of Arabia, and the coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
as far as Bombay, thus realizing her dream of making the India Ocean
an English ocean and setting up the well-known Gibraltar-Singapore
line, which would give her the monopoly of the trade of the Old World.