Germany's Covert War in the Middle East by Curt Prufer Kevin Morrow Kevin Morrow

Author:Curt Prufer, Kevin Morrow, Kevin Morrow [Curt Prufer, Kevin Morrow, Kevin Morrow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations
ISBN: 9781786723185
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Berlin, 18 September 1918.145

To the Foreign Office, Berlin.

Ibrahim Khalil has stated to me in repeated visits that he is a cousin of Emir Ibn Rashid and the representative who in Damascus had the task of supervising the financial operations of Ibn Rashid’s envoy there, Rished Pasha. Towards this purpose, he came with Ibn Rashid some months ago from Ha’il146 to Mada’in Salih,147 and traveled from there on the last Hijaz train to Damascus. His cousin has returned to Ha’il. He has traveled, then, further from Constantinople and is now here to do business, particularly with the sugar trade. When I interjected that doing business is really much easier for an Ottoman subject in Turkey than in Berlin, he confessed to me that the real purpose of his traveling was to speak with the German government about the resolution of the Arab question. I replied to him that we indeed had great sympathy for the Arabs, as for all Ottoman peoples, but that a resolution of this question would only be possible between Turks and Arabs.

Khalil spoke then about the conditions in the Hijaz and in Egypt, and he did not fail in this opportunity to hold up for us the English as a political model. Against the khedive, he indulged himself in violently insulting talk. In general, he showed himself to be astonishingly well-informed about the state of affairs in Turkey.

I have the definite impression that Ibrahim Khalil is sent here by a certain Turkish faction, presumably the Teşkilat Odası (‘Ahmad Fuad) whose name he mentioned, in order to provoke us, and at the same time make propaganda against the khedive. That he lied to me on several points, I have already been able to ascertain. He is related to Ibn Rashid in no way, comes originally instead from Medina, where he belongs to a Shiite merchants’ sect, is without influence and is downright despised. His dialect already betrays that he in no way comes from the Najd. He speaks much more like the Egyptians who live on the Red Sea.

Ibrahim Khalil has a reference with him from Ismail Hakkı Bey, the son of Tevfik Pasha, and also claims to be known to Prince Burhan ad Din.148

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