In the era of the terrorist Ottoman State, and specifically "Abdul Hamid II", the Albanians rejected the Treaty of San Stefano, because in it they lost part of their lands without any fault of their own, so they revolted against "Abdul Hamid".. and the Albanians were a Muslim majority with a Christian minority.. unlike the Armenians.

So "Abdul Hamid" in turn rose against them, and sent his army to Albania, which committed a group of the most horrific atrocities that Turkey exerted every cheap and precious effort for history to forget.. so the Ottoman soldiers would seal people's houses shut with nails, and set fire to them and to those inside.. paying no heed to the screams of children and mothers.. until they temporarily suppressed the Albanian revolution.

The Albanians residing in the lands that "Abdul Hamid" granted to the Serbs refused in turn to leave their homes.. so he sent them his soldiers, who brutalized them and slaughtered them and displaced them by force, and during their displacement they were deprived of carrying any food or drink.. so they seized all of it from the displaced.. and took their money as "displacement fees".. and people died on the road of hunger and ate the grasses of the earth.

And in June 1878 an elite of Muslim Albanians gathered, from the merchants and the nobles, in addition to delegates from the south among them.. we remember among them "Abdyl Frashëri the Albanian".. the founder of the national movement at the time, and they founded something called the "Albanian League".. to demand the recovery of the Albanian lands that Sultan "Abdul Hamid" had ceded to the Serbs in order to please the Russians.

"Abdul Hamid" did not like this talk so he sent a military force under the command of "Dervish Pasha".. which confiscated the Albanians' livestock and their agricultural equipment and their money and their trade.. and then he went and imposed an economic blockade on them.. they were forbidden to export or import anything.. meaning no herds and no farming tools and no food.. a systematic process of extermination by starvation.

The Albanians suffered severely but managed to live.. so "Abdul Hamid" went and tripled the taxes on them three times.. and of course they could not find anything to eat in the first place.. so they sent to the Sultan asking either for their cancellation or for the return of the herds and the means of farming.. so he refused.. and he discovered that they were slipping through the mountains to neighbouring towns to work and earn a living.. so he went and sent a military force that closed the mountain passes and took control of them.

And here.. the Albanian revolution began under the leadership of the Albanian "Bib Doda".. and this time he also sent them "Dervish" Pasha.. he summoned him aboard an Ottoman military ship, pretending to negotiate the Albanians' demands.. and as soon as he boarded the ship.. they arrested him and sailed away with him.. and he spent 30 years in the prisons of the Ottomans.. and died there.

After the arrest of the leader of the revolution.. "Abdul Hamid" discovered that when the Albanians slipped away to work in the neighbouring countries.. they used to ask for their wages in grain.. they would go and plant it in primitive ways.. and crops actually began to be produced.. and to bear fruit.. and at that point he needed "Dervish Pasha" to be finished and it would no longer do to leave him there.. so he ordered "Dervish Pasha" to be summoned, and he made for the Albanians a special militia division.. like the "Hamidiye regiments" of the Armenians.. he called it the "Mirditë gendarmerie", and ordered it, and it burned their crops for them.. and began daily sessions of brutalization against them.

A fragrant record, God bless.. for the Sultan whom the Albanians nicknamed "Abdul-Laeen", meaning "the slave of Satan".. and not of God the Praiseworthy, may He be exalted, as his name falsely suggests.. only some Albanians considered the name religiously impermissible because it could be misunderstood.. so they distorted it to "Abdul-Laeen"...

And with the accursed Sultan.. the first successful step that the founders of the Zionist state obtained from him began to appear.. and his negotiations over a national homeland for the Jews with "Herzl" had not yet ended...

And this step was in the year 1887.. in the form of a firman forming what he called the "Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem".

And this Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem separated Jerusalem, the holy lands, into an administrative entity independent of the province of Syria. And with that it became the first step, a window, for the immigration of Jews to it.. it was of course still subject to the Ottoman State.. but administratively it was independent.. and with that, when the Jews emigrate.. no one can say "Abdul Hamid" allowed them to immigrate.. no.. Jerusalem is administratively independent, folks, and it receives or rejects the immigrants it wants.

"Abdul Hamid" made this move in exchange for a loan from the banks of London amounting to 6 million francs.. and consequently.. mass Jewish immigrations began to pour into Palestine.. and in the era of "Abdul Hamid" organized Jewish settlement operations began, in the form of cities and independent settlements.. outside the traditional main cities of the Jews, and the Jews established a large group of schools, hospitals, factories and banks.

The researcher "Fadwa Nusairat" in her book "The Role of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in Facilitating Zionist Control over Palestine" presented more than 10 tables.. with more than 100 settlements established in the era of Sultan "Abdul Hamid" with the documents, the name, the location and the year of founding.

"Herzl met Sultan "Abdul Hamid" several times between 1896 - 1902, including three times at the Sultan's expense and as his guest, and although "Abdul Hamid" was completely refusing.. to declare Palestine a national homeland for the Jews as "Herzl" demanded of him, "Herzl" had come to know his medicine and his aim, so he went and eased loans for him from the banks of Europe, and "Abdul Hamid's" mouth watered before money, so he asked "Herzl" to at least postpone this declaration for now.. because the state was not stable and he had no need of revolutions.. but on the other hand.. he went and granted Ottoman nationality to tens of thousands, of European Jews.. and allowed them freedom of immigration and settlement in Jerusalem and Palestine on an individual basis as "Ottoman citizens".. entitled to ownership and residence and work anywhere belonging to the empire.. and he ordered his governors there to receive them.

And the truth is that with the immigration of the Jews, money began to flow into the Ottoman treasury, because these Jews came with their money and their investments.. so it was a financial and investment opportunity for the Sultan and the Ottoman State, which was facing acute, repeated crises.. and suffering all the time from successive defeats and the loss of much of its land.

The truth is that "Abdul Hamid's" actions were a solid ground on which the "Balfour Declaration" stood in the year 1917.. the truth is that the declaration was nothing more than a seal beautifying the actions of the corrupt Sultan "Abdul Hamid".. because the Jews had already settled Palestine for good.

The Ottoman Sultan "Abdul Hamid", with this money, then.. decided in the year 1900 to build a railway line, linking the Ottoman State in Damascus, with Medina, he called it the "Hejaz Railway", with a length of 1464 kilometres, and he announced that it was to help the pilgrims and ease their transport.. while the truth is that its aim, amid the revolutions and the calls for independence.. was that the Arabian Peninsula would not in turn become independent, and that he could transport military forces to it to suppress any revolution in it quickly.. The Turkish historian "Metin Hülagü", in his book "The Hejaz Railway Line, said: "There is no doubt that the main motive behind the establishment of the Hejaz railway is political and military ambition".

With the cost of the line and the pressure on the people increasing.. many of the people of Istanbul found themselves in revolt against him.. because of the deteriorating economic conditions, and his massacres against the Armenians.. their neighbours and their spouses and their partners.. so he went and staged a silly theatrical move, which history has preserved for us under the name "the Bomb Incident" or "the Yildiz assassination attempt".

In the year 1905 "Abdul Hamid" was praying Friday in the mosque as usual, and after the prayer, while he was leaving, he suddenly stopped, contrary to custom and protocol, and went and discussed with the Mufti "Jamal al-Din Effendi" in a public conversation, to the point that the Sheikh al-Islam at the time was astonished, because the Sultan, if he wanted to discuss something, would summon him to his office.. and during the conversation a car bomb suddenly exploded in front of the mosque.. with a bomb placed in it.. it should have exploded on "Abdul Hamid".. had it not been that he stopped and stood and spoke with the Sheikh...!

After the explosion "Abdul Hamid" got into his car calmly, and drove it himself to the palace, relaxed and pleased.. and then they went and brought him one of the Armenian revolutionaries named "Yildiz".. so he ordered him to be tortured and humiliated in every possible way, until they made him sign a confession.

And "Yildiz's" confession was worthless because "Yildiz" was a teacher.. who did not know how to make explosives.. so they went and wrote an addendum to the confession.. that "Yildiz" had enlisted a Belgian explosives expert named "Edouard Joris".

The important thing is they went and brought this "Joris", and "Abdul Hamid" ordered that no one touch him with harm.. and "Joris" went and signed a confession for them that "Yildiz" had indeed asked him for a bomb, to blow up the Sultan.. and that he had made it for him.. so "Abdul Hamid" went and gave him from the drawer of his desk 500 pounds as a reward, and set him free!

The astonishing thing is that the Turkish historian "Ahmet Akgündüz" later published what indicates the existence of regular correspondence, between "Abdul Hamid" and "Joris" while the latter was in Europe.. and that he was a private personal spy for the palace.. supplying him with much valuable information from Europe.. in his book "The Unknown Ottoman State: 303 Questions and Answers Explaining Facts Absent from the Ottoman State".. page 431.. the same relationship was proven by "Yilmaz Öztuna" in the book "History of the Ottoman State", on pages 162 to 164...!

Meaning the whole story was a play between him and his favourite spy, in order to turn the street against the Armenians.. and indeed he succeeded.. and the newspapers wrote about the evil Armenians and "the greatest assassination plot of the modern era".

With "Abdul Hamid's" need for money, he decided to play the record of religion and Islam, so he went and made an entity called the "Islamic University".. he announced that it was with the aim of uniting the Muslims - I do not know which Muslims he wanted to unite while he was occupying them all - and reviving the spirit of Islam!

The university was a cover for collecting donations.. and by playing on the chord of religion, he collected in its name millions of pounds.

1906, Britain wanted to seize the south of the Red Sea, and to have an outlet on it, so it went to "Obud" and they sat together.. and a map appeared, that the Jordanian part of Aqaba, the "Liwa of Karak", belonged to Egypt, and that "Abdul Hamid" had to withdraw the Egyptian forces from it and hand it over to England...

And this area had Egyptian forces in it, to secure the Egyptian pilgrims.

Of course the story was easy.. on the same day "Abdul Hamid" received approval for a loan of four million francs from the Bank of London, and on that basis.. he sent an Ottoman military company, under the command of "Rushdi Bey" to this area.. and ordered these forces to evacuate the area.. and after the evacuation, England went and placed its forces next to the Ottoman forces and under their protection, and took control of this part just as it had wanted.

All these tragedies led to the fact that in the year 1906.. there suddenly emerged into the light.. a group that had been founded secretly in "Salonika".. in the year 1889.. by 10 students of the War School and the Military Medical School in Istanbul.. and it went on growing and spreading.. without revealing itself.. until the promised year...

The year 1906.. and the first appearance of the "Committee of Union and Progress".. which spread and came to have disciples and followers.. all of them with one aim.

The deposition of Sultan "Abdul Hamid".

But the story of this committee is long.. so we will continue our talk about it later.

And the talk has a remainder, God willing.

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- Previous posts in the first comment.

- The image is of the Bloody Sultan "Abdul Hamid II", known in Albania as "Abdul-Laeen"

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