I don't know how true the following is but it would be interesting to know how the osmanli's intelligence and special operations worked and what they did [that seems to be the teskilat mahsusa (tashkilat makhsusa)]. incidently the "moderators" on that forum closed 'locked" that thread....
Axis History Forum • View topic - Ottoman Taskilat Mahsusa and Egyptian revolution:
In 1915 the Ottoman governor of Syria and Navy Minister Djemal Pasha wrote a letter to Esref Sencer Kuscubasi regarding the impending Ottoman Expedition to British occupied Egypt in which he said:The future of the world of Islam depends on our crossing of the Suez. Esref Bey was at the time a high ranking operative of Teskilat Mahsusa, a secret intelligence organ that was established earlier by the Ottoman war minister Enver Pasha. The organization included Ottoman officers, Doctors, Journalists, Muslim clerics and other professionals.
The Suez Expedition failed while the Teskilat maintained a diversionary action on the western desert fringe of Egypt under the leader of Nuri Pasha Kiligil (Enver Pashas brother) who led forays into Egyptian territories but couldnt maintain a presence in the face of a British counter attack. The teskilat effort also included an urban sabotage campaign that was to usher in a revolt to coincide with external Ottoman invasion.
As the plan foundered many Egyptian officers including General Ahmed Pasha Saleh Harb (later to serve along with General Enonu in the Turkish war of independence), Dr Abdurrahman Pasha Azzam, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Cawish and Major Mahmud Bey Labib departed to Turkey. Back there Enver Pasha had realized that the war was lost and instructed Teskilat commanders to prepare for the next stage; a war of liberation in which Teskilat was to operate under the pan Islamic name of Umum Alemi Islam İhtilal Teşkilatı or the Islamic world liberation brigades. He left at their disposal arms dumps and funds that were later utilized effectively to ignite the Turkish war of independence as he travelled by a circuitous route to Crimea, German, Russia, and finally to Afghanistan and Tajikistan where he was killed in skirmishes with the invading Bolshevik army while trying with a handful of his Teskilat comrades to resuscitate the empire.
In the mean time the teskilat cells in Egypt got incensed by the humiliating loss of the Ottoman armies and along with the populace launched a short lived revolt in January 1919 that resulted in a partial independence from British occupation. The British with American backing however didnt withdraw totally as they knew the evacuation of Egypt unlike Turkey may result in an Islamic regime that will threaten their worldwide imperial interests.
As the Egyptian Teskilat members in Turkey became disillusioned by the outcome of the Lausanne Treaty and Mustafa Kemals abandonment of the Ottoman Empires regeneration they returned back to where along with Mercurial Misirli Aziz Pasha and former Damascus Teskilat cells leader Dr Abdulhamid said Bey they assisted in establishing a network of revolutionary cells with a pan Islamic outlook that attacked British and allied interests. Many of those cells coalesced under the umbrella of a group called the Muslim Brotherhood.
The groups leader established a secret military apparatus that was trained by ex Teskilatci Major Mahmud Bey Labib and took guidance from famous Teskilat luminaries such as Ahmed Pasha Saleh Harb and Misirli Aziz and went on to fight the remnants of British occupation troops around the Suez canal and from there to fight the Israeli Army in the 1948 war.
As it seemed that power in Egypt was about to fall in the hands of the group a splinter group of Army officers from the Muslim brotherhood launched a secular coup detat which met American approval and resulted in evacuation of the last British troops from Egypt and the start of efforts by the coup leaders to liberate former British colonies in Aden, Arabia and Algeria.
The coup leaders however turned harshly against their former Muslim Brotherhood comrades and launched against them a campaign of repression that lasted for 60 years. The campaign drove the Muslim Brotherhood underground and resulted in a simmering conflict in which more potent forms of Pan Islamic resistance cells flourished among them one of them to be led by the grand nephew of famous Teskilat officer Abdurrahman Pasha which was called Islamic Jihad group that went on to assassinate the Egyptian president Enver Sadat(Ironically named after Enver Pasha the Teskilat founder and last Ottoman war Minister).The leader of the group that was to Morph later into the largest component of Al-Qaida is Qaedas second in command Dr Ayman al Zawahiri.As to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt it continued its resistance against the subsequent Egyptian regimes in the political arena; however the ruling American backed dictator always managed, against public will, to forge election results thereby denying them their deserved parliamentary majority.
Come January 25th 2011 when pro freedom protestors took to the streets, political observers suddenly realized that under the veneer of secular protestors lies a well disciplined core of Muslim Brotherhood activists arranged in previously unknown secret cells. In the following days such cells organized neighborhood watch patrols while other cells engaged government paramilitaries in running street battles. As the resolve of the group and the people solidified, the president saw that he had no choice but to resign ending an era of US dominance.
Days ago, the Muslim Brotherhoods chief cleric sat in the countrys largest public square on the Nile surrounded by Tanks and MP s and addressed the nation and the army in a victory parade saying I hope to pray in (a liberated)Jerusalem soon. It may not all seem related to the casual eye but to a military historian what happened was a link in a chain of confrontations between allied nations and Islamic interests that started long time ago. I am tempted on my next visit to Istanbul to visit Enver Pashas grave and whisper to him Pasha, the war is not over yet.
Axis History Forum • View topic - Ottoman Taskilat Mahsusa and Egyptian revolution:
In 1915 the Ottoman governor of Syria and Navy Minister Djemal Pasha wrote a letter to Esref Sencer Kuscubasi regarding the impending Ottoman Expedition to British occupied Egypt in which he said:The future of the world of Islam depends on our crossing of the Suez. Esref Bey was at the time a high ranking operative of Teskilat Mahsusa, a secret intelligence organ that was established earlier by the Ottoman war minister Enver Pasha. The organization included Ottoman officers, Doctors, Journalists, Muslim clerics and other professionals.
The Suez Expedition failed while the Teskilat maintained a diversionary action on the western desert fringe of Egypt under the leader of Nuri Pasha Kiligil (Enver Pashas brother) who led forays into Egyptian territories but couldnt maintain a presence in the face of a British counter attack. The teskilat effort also included an urban sabotage campaign that was to usher in a revolt to coincide with external Ottoman invasion.
As the plan foundered many Egyptian officers including General Ahmed Pasha Saleh Harb (later to serve along with General Enonu in the Turkish war of independence), Dr Abdurrahman Pasha Azzam, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Cawish and Major Mahmud Bey Labib departed to Turkey. Back there Enver Pasha had realized that the war was lost and instructed Teskilat commanders to prepare for the next stage; a war of liberation in which Teskilat was to operate under the pan Islamic name of Umum Alemi Islam İhtilal Teşkilatı or the Islamic world liberation brigades. He left at their disposal arms dumps and funds that were later utilized effectively to ignite the Turkish war of independence as he travelled by a circuitous route to Crimea, German, Russia, and finally to Afghanistan and Tajikistan where he was killed in skirmishes with the invading Bolshevik army while trying with a handful of his Teskilat comrades to resuscitate the empire.
In the mean time the teskilat cells in Egypt got incensed by the humiliating loss of the Ottoman armies and along with the populace launched a short lived revolt in January 1919 that resulted in a partial independence from British occupation. The British with American backing however didnt withdraw totally as they knew the evacuation of Egypt unlike Turkey may result in an Islamic regime that will threaten their worldwide imperial interests.
As the Egyptian Teskilat members in Turkey became disillusioned by the outcome of the Lausanne Treaty and Mustafa Kemals abandonment of the Ottoman Empires regeneration they returned back to where along with Mercurial Misirli Aziz Pasha and former Damascus Teskilat cells leader Dr Abdulhamid said Bey they assisted in establishing a network of revolutionary cells with a pan Islamic outlook that attacked British and allied interests. Many of those cells coalesced under the umbrella of a group called the Muslim Brotherhood.
The groups leader established a secret military apparatus that was trained by ex Teskilatci Major Mahmud Bey Labib and took guidance from famous Teskilat luminaries such as Ahmed Pasha Saleh Harb and Misirli Aziz and went on to fight the remnants of British occupation troops around the Suez canal and from there to fight the Israeli Army in the 1948 war.
As it seemed that power in Egypt was about to fall in the hands of the group a splinter group of Army officers from the Muslim brotherhood launched a secular coup detat which met American approval and resulted in evacuation of the last British troops from Egypt and the start of efforts by the coup leaders to liberate former British colonies in Aden, Arabia and Algeria.
The coup leaders however turned harshly against their former Muslim Brotherhood comrades and launched against them a campaign of repression that lasted for 60 years. The campaign drove the Muslim Brotherhood underground and resulted in a simmering conflict in which more potent forms of Pan Islamic resistance cells flourished among them one of them to be led by the grand nephew of famous Teskilat officer Abdurrahman Pasha which was called Islamic Jihad group that went on to assassinate the Egyptian president Enver Sadat(Ironically named after Enver Pasha the Teskilat founder and last Ottoman war Minister).The leader of the group that was to Morph later into the largest component of Al-Qaida is Qaedas second in command Dr Ayman al Zawahiri.As to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt it continued its resistance against the subsequent Egyptian regimes in the political arena; however the ruling American backed dictator always managed, against public will, to forge election results thereby denying them their deserved parliamentary majority.
Come January 25th 2011 when pro freedom protestors took to the streets, political observers suddenly realized that under the veneer of secular protestors lies a well disciplined core of Muslim Brotherhood activists arranged in previously unknown secret cells. In the following days such cells organized neighborhood watch patrols while other cells engaged government paramilitaries in running street battles. As the resolve of the group and the people solidified, the president saw that he had no choice but to resign ending an era of US dominance.
Days ago, the Muslim Brotherhoods chief cleric sat in the countrys largest public square on the Nile surrounded by Tanks and MP s and addressed the nation and the army in a victory parade saying I hope to pray in (a liberated)Jerusalem soon. It may not all seem related to the casual eye but to a military historian what happened was a link in a chain of confrontations between allied nations and Islamic interests that started long time ago. I am tempted on my next visit to Istanbul to visit Enver Pashas grave and whisper to him Pasha, the war is not over yet.
