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'''Anti-Turkism''', '''Turkophobia''', '''Turcophobia''' or '''anti-Turkish sentiment''' is the hostility towards [[Turkish people]], [[Culture of Turkey|Turkish culture]], the [[Ottoman Empire]] (Turkish Empire) and the [[Republic of Turkey]]. In late 19th century, [[William Ewart Gladstone]] firmly established Turcophobia as a shift in the British p(contracted; show full)
:''The Turks are a human [[cancer]], a creeping agony in the flesh of the lands which they misgovern, rotting every fibre of life ... I am glad that the Turk is to be called to a final account for his long record of infamy against humanity.''<ref>Quoted from a speech by the British Prime Minister, D. Lloyd George, 10 November 1914, cited in H.W.V. Temperley (ed.), A History of the Peace Conference of Paris, Oxford 1969, VI, 24.</ref>

The [[New York Tribune]] told its readers in the year 1919:
:''the Turks have always been a parasite and a stench in the nostrils of civilization''<ref>Nicole and Hugh Pope, Turkey unveiled : a history of modern Turkey, Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2004, p. 60 ISBN 1585675814</ref>
A former American ambassador to Berlin suggested that: ''the Turks could be dealt with by adopting the US system of parklike reservations such as were used for the American Indians.''<ref>Nicole and Hugh Pope, Turkey unveiled : a history of modern Turkey, Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2004, p. 60 ISBN 1585675814</ref>⏎
:Lloyd George played important role in the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and invasion of [[Anatolia]] by [[Greece]]. Lloyd George hated [[Muslims]], and especially the [[Turk]]s. In the course of the Paris conference, at the same time as he casually handed over [[Palestine]] (then 90% [[Arab]]) to the [[Zionist]] movement, he encouraged the ambitions of his friend [[Eleftherios Venizelos]], the prime minister of [[Greece]], to annex chunks of [[Anatolia]]. When Venizelos dined at Downing Street, Lloyd George proposed the toast: “May the Turk be turned out of Europe and sent to . . . where he came from.” [[Lord Curzon]] agreed: “For more than five centuries, the presence of the Turk in Europe has been a source of distraction, intrigue, and corruption . . . Let not this occasion be missed of purging the earth of one of its most pestilent roots of evil”.<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article4114380.ece Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance by Giles Milton]</ref> Lloyd George dismissed [[Ataturk]] as a “carpet seller in a bazaar . . . [given to] unnatural sexual intercourse”, yet the Turkish leader was more than a match for the Greeks.

The [[New York Tribune]] told its readers in the year 1919:
:''the Turks have always been a parasite and a stench in the nostrils of civilization''<ref>Nicole and Hugh Pope, Turkey unveiled : a history of modern Turkey, Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2004, p. 60 ISBN 1585675814</ref>
A former American ambassador to Berlin suggested that: ''the Turks could be dealt with by adopting the US system of parklike reservations such as were used for the American Indians.''<ref>Nicole and Hugh Pope, Turkey unveiled : a history of modern Turkey, Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2004, p. 60 ISBN 1585675814</ref>⏎
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[[Ziya Gökalp]], prominent Turkish ideologue of [[Pan-Turkism]], in his writings heavily criticizes officials of the Ottoman Empire for always using the term "donkey Turk" regarding its Turkish subjects. <ref>[http://www.gencturkhaber.com/v1/haber.php?id=110106 Gençtürk Haber<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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==See also==
*[[Midnight Express (film)]]
*[[Harold Nicolson]]
*[[Bosnian Genocide]]
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