Why did England ,America and Allies destroy the ottoman empire and allow the future blood shed of middle east?

Question

Do you think that England ,America and allies have brought the murder of people in the middle east by destroying the(turkish)empire and did not think of the future of people and by there actions destroyed education ,communtity ,culture .The Ottoman empire was destroy also by lawence of arabia as he used his trust to destroy the middle east .Under the Ottoman empire peace would have been restored and todays death would not happen in the middle east .Why ws the Ottoman empire destroyed (for money)As it all started from the 1st world war and the plague of death is now the stench of the middle east.What are your thoughts

By destroying cultures you destroy education and freedom for all around the world.

Answer 1

Wow.. That is incredibly insightful..

I have a Turkish friend and he constantly stresses to me the importance of secularism in democracies and peaceful states. I would imagine that the Ottoman would have become more of a secualar state had it not ben destroyed. I dont think we really knew what we were doing. Much like Iraq.

Answer 2

Nothing quite like 20/20 hindsight. There is no way anyone could have predicted that defeating the Ottoman Empire in 1918 would have opened the flood gates to a century of war. Keep in mind, the Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany and Italy in the Great War, who fought against France, Great Britain, Russia, and (later) the US.

Answer 3

I don't think people should worry to much about past wars etc because they were all bad wars no matter who was at fault!
humans are precious no matter what country they are from & men today should put their brains together with all the countries & work out how to stop all this fighting so everyone can have good happy peaceful lives that they all deserve
all those countries should be getting heaps of tourists!
just imagine how good that is for the countries but instead people stay away because of all the wars & hate

Answer 4

America did not destroy the Turkish Ottoman Empire; it was England and France who tried to allow the Greeks to gain some Independence. However, Russia was the fly in the ointment, they sailed into the standoff at Navarone in 1828, and started firing at the Joint Turkish/Egyptian Fleet.

If Elgin had not brought the Parthenon Frieze from the Turks, then England would not have got obsessed with Greek culture, Byron would not have sailed to the Peloponnese, and died, and we would not have been stuck in the bay of Navarone defending Greek independence.

The Russians wanted to invade south, and they tried to go through Uzbekistan, declaring war on Persia. We stopped then invading Turkey, by destroying the naval base in the Crimean War (1850) so they tried to go through Afghanistan (1880) then the Balkans in 1913 by giving loads of guns to the Serbs.

Finally they occupied half of Iran. The British who had paid for the development of the oil fields (BP) had to occupy the southern part to stop them spreading south, so they threatened Turkey again.

Then WWI kicked off. We ended up being attacked a coalition of Germany, Austro-Hungarian and Turkey. The Germans attacked Russia, and Turkey joined their side, thus we found ourselves fighting the Turks in Iran and Afghanistan, and Egypt.

Unable to spare troops from the western front, a language expert called T E Lawrence, managed to organise the Arabs into a Guerrilla army, and they achieved independence from the Turks.

England and France stopped at the boarder of Turkey before they invaded Persia in 1800. America was not part of the allies in WW1 they declared war on Germany in 1917 after the sinking of American merchant shipping.

(Bgood Italy and Albania was n the allied side in ww1 - Ernest Hemmingway fourght with them)

Answer 5

Funny, I thought "England" was actually part of "Great Britian" by this time?