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policy of preserving the territorial integrity of the Sublime Porte (the Ottoman Empire; Osman.
ت لود هي ل ع مث ع , Turkish - Osmanlı İmparatorluğu. The official name of the state founded at the
end of the 13th century by Osman I, in Asia Minor, the capital since 1453 – Istanbul (before that –
Constantinople). The state of the Ottoman sultans existed from 1299 to 1923. It was called the
Ottoman Empire, the Sublime Porte) found opponents among supporters of the idea of
creating a
Christian Armenia on a large territory of the Muslim Porte.
It was very important for us to identify the positions of British historiography in the "Armenian
issue", since both its exacerbation in the considered period, and its link with the formation of the
image of the "enemy-Turk" in British foreign policy and the influences that the UK expressed on
the US position regarding the image of the "enemy-Turk" as "the exterminator of Armenians" is an
important part of the subject of our study.
All the mentioned British scientists, of course, were sophisticated people. Therefore, as
expected from the convinced British patriots, they said almost nothing about the place and role of
their Empire in the formation of the image of the enemy by the United States in connection with the
aggravation of the "Armenian issue", but in their works they provided so much unique important
source material and so accurately and precisely described
it in mutual discussions, that we could
only enjoy watching the brilliant work of representatives of the outstanding British school of source
studies and draw our own conclusions.
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