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Najd was invaded, cleansing and persecution in Madina

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Although Saudi Arabia is known for land of the two holy mosques for the presence of Ka’ba direction of Muslims in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque, which includes the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad, it was not even spared the actions of the Ottoman Sultanate, which used religion to impose its authority over the region.

Since the advent of the Ottomans from Central Asia, they have used violence against the inhabitants of the region to occupy it and used the Islamic religion to achieve this goal. The current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to regain his Ottoman glory and is proud of its actions, taking advantage of the false information about this Sultanate which occupied the region 400 years ago, even the land of the two holy mosques was not spared.

In 1818, Najd city have been invaded

During the Ottoman occupation of the land of the two holy mosques, Muhammad Ali Pasha ordered the attack on the first Saudi state in December 1807, met by the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa IV, but the Egyptian internal conflict prevented him from taking full interest in extending his influence on the Arabian Peninsula.

The first Saudi state, known as the Emirate of "Diriya", was founded in 1744 by Mohammed bin Saud Aal Muqrin, Amir of Diriya which was taken as capital to his state. The first Saudi state continued to expand until its fall in 1818 by the Ottoman army led by Ibrahim Pasha.

In 1807, the Ottoman war against Saudi Arabia continued, but the Ottomans could not enter the region. The Ottomans announced that they would give the reward and gifts to a tribe in Najd region in exchange of information on access to the Saudi capital al-Diriya, and the Ottoman army arrived to the capital city of Diriya in September 1818, and Prince Abdullah the Great surrendered to the commander of the Ottoman army Ibrahim Pasha, he was taken to Istanbul for execution.

Al-Mazma Center for Studies and Research- Emirati center - pointed out that the Ottoman Sultan commissioned the forces of Muhammad Ali Pasha, governor of Egypt, to eliminate the first Saudi state. The forces of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, led the third campaign against al-Diriya and took control of most of Najd for 9 months, during which he committed terrible crimes against the princes, scientists, community leaders and the general public, and then returned to Egypt devastating everything in his way like castles and fortresses, raging livestock and property and destroying the fields of destruction.

Muhammad Ali Pasha left in al-Diriya one of his leaders, which is called Hussein Beik, who took her people to the city of Thromada and confined them all in a large room, and then asked all the people of Diriya to attend to write for them speeches on which side to live in, some who were in that room came, when they met, he killed them all and set them on fire.

The statistics estimate that 230 people were killed on this day. They also looted their money, their property, livestock and a section of their children, imposed heavy taxes on those who remained, and destroyed their farms. Prince Abdullah bin Saud was sent to Cairo and from there to Astana, along with his senior associates, and with his senior associates were tied and executed.

The Russian embassy in Astana described the incident as follows: "Last week, the heads of the Wahhabi leader, his minister and his imam, who were captured in Diriya and were taken to the capital recently, were beheaded, in order to give more splendor to this victory, the Sultan ordered on this day to hold a meeting in the old palace in the capital. They were brought to the palace. The three prisoners were tied in heavy chains and surrounded by a crowd of spectators. After the decree, the Sultan ordered them to be executed. The leader's neck was cut off in front of the main gate of St. Sophia, the minister's neck was beheaded in front of the entrance to the Serail, and the neck of the third was beheaded in one of the main markets in the capital. "

The forces of Ibrahim Pasha- ordered by the Ottoman Sultan and on his behalf- carried out a wide range of violations in the cities and towns of Najd, from robbing and sabotage, and cut the ears of the dead and sent them to Astana. As well as the torture of princes and jurists, in several ways, including: tying some of them in the nozzles with guns

Persecution and displacement of the people of Madina (Seferberlek) 1917:

However, the worst thing that the people of Saudi Arabia, especially the people of Madina, suffered from by the Ottomans during the days of Seferberlik began in 1913, when the Ottomans prepared to enter the First World War alongside Germany, where the Ottoman Sultan Mohammad Rashad issued a decree inviting the men who they were between the ages of 15 and 45 years to join compulsory military service to defend the Ottomans, and then began the scourges on all Arab countries, on Muslims and non-Ottomans Christians.

"Since the Ottoman caliphate until today, our ancestors died," says Adonis, “unwillingly, they were enlisted and stuck in wars that are not theirs, in defense of issues that are not theirs.” In his book “Dust of Cities, Misery of History.”

During Seferberlik, the Ottoman governor Fakhri Pasha, annexed the city of Madina in the Ottoman Empire displacing its people, and then Turkificating it, it is said that there remained in the city only 140 men and several women. The Ottomans also wreaked havoc in Madina. They took away all the valuables of the Prophet's chamber. They excavating the wall around the tomb for jewels and money from the gifts of Abbasid Caliphs and Muslim princes, as well as climbing the green dome to steal the gold crescent.

The Ottomans looted thousands of valuables of the holy Prophet's chamber, among them the Jewel of the Holy Planet, the Prophet's garment, Osman bin Affan’s copy of Quran, the contents and manuscripts of the Aref Hekmat Library and the Mahmudiyah. All of which are currently in Istanbul's Top Kabbi Museum.

Many of the sheikhs had written about what the Ottomans practices against the Saudis especially in Madina. Sheikh Mohammed al-Tayyib al-Sisi wrote in the qiblah newspaper in 1917 about the abuse of soldiers during the reign of Fakhri Pasha and says "the oppressive Turanian Turks tortured every Bedouin who comes up with some kind of livelihood. They sabotaged everything they had, imprisoned and killed them."

The Ottomans extended the railway line (Hijaz railway), which was stopped at Bab al-Anbariyah to the center of Madina, specifically to the vicinity of Bab al-Salam, and during the extension of the railway, the Ottomans demolished the street al-Ayniya and markets, fences and houses over its residents, aiming to turn the Prophet’s Mosque to a military fortress and a depository of weapons disregarding the sanctity of the Prophet's Mosque.

The blogger asserts that the practices and violations of Fakri Pasha led to the spread of famine among the remaining women and children until it reached the families to the extent of eating the grasses of the earth, the trefoil and the remains of the animals. "Fakhri Pasha's forces carried out the crime of ethnic cleansing within the framework of what is known as mass deportation, for the rest of the people of the city, by uprooting them and forcing them to leave through al-Hijaz train, and dispersing families in every city where the train stands, until its people were scattered in Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria and Turkey to Bulgaria, Albania and several other areas in the Balkans.

In his book "Memories of the Three Covenants," the historian and author Muhammad Hussein Zaidan (1907-1991), a member of the Madina, eyewitness of the crime of mass deportation of people by the Ottomans, said that the families were dispersed and sent to various areas under occupation the Ottoman, and talked about the hunger that hit the people of the city, although the warehouses were full of dates and food.

The historian also speaks of the Arabs' hatred of the Ottomans, and describes Fakhri Pasha as more hateful to the Arabs than Jamal Pasha the butcher (in Damascus), every Arab who was living in the city hated Fakhri Pasha even more than Jamal Pasha was in the Levant."

Contemporary writers, poets, and historians spoke of the incident of Seferberlik, such as the famous writer Dia’ Aziz (1914-1996), who was displaced by his family, Fakhri Pasha, in his book "My Life with Hunger, Love and War" he spoke of this tragedy as an eyewitness to the misery and suffering of the people of the Prophet's city because of the Turkish rule.

As the author Ahmed Amin Saleh Morshed narrates in the fifth part of the book "Thebes and Memories of the Beloved", the crime of deportation of the people of the city and Seferberlik citing endless stories about the looting of the goods of the city of Madina and the livelihood of its people, starvation and injustice before deportation and exile.

The author points out that the famine forced the people of Madina and its surrounding to eat some cats, although the warehouses were full of good, but it was allocated to the Ottoman army, as the people of the city were not allowed to taste a single date or grain of wheat.

Dr. Saied bin Waleed Tulah speaks in the book "Travel and the evacuation of the people of Madina during World War I 1334-1377 e", which was issued in 2016 on the tragedy of the displacement of the Ottoman Turks and their leader Fakhri Pasha to the people of Madina and forcibly deporting them from their country.

"The transformations that accompanied this incident have made us consider it the greatest tragedies that Madina has experienced in the late centuries," says Dr. Tulah, describing the tragedy. "Seferberlik was not just a political turn, but a tragedy that was engraved in the minds of civilians and printed in themselves, and the tragedy of the men and women in a wonderful cinematic story, to narrate these stories to their children of the bereaved, the orphans and the families who were displaced by the departure, hunger, the plague and death.” Says Tula describing the tragedy.

Erdogan seeks Sunni leadership and attacks Saudi Arabia

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan always praises the glories of the Ottoman Sultanate and tries to restore its glories. But he forgets what the Ottoman Sultanate has done to the peoples of the region: committing massacres, forcing displacement, changing demographics and plundering the region's wealth.

Erdogan, through his resonant slogans and speeches about Muslims, seeks to pull the rug from under the feet of Saudi Arabia to take over the leadership of the Sunni Muslim world to impose authority in the region. Erdogan recently used the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on 2 October 2018 in his country’s consulate in Istanbul, for personal propaganda and sought to undermine Saudi Arabia and its status in the Middle East.

The New York Times reported that Erdogan used Khashoggi's death to undermine the status of the Saudi crown prince and to try to get closer to US President Donald Trump to present his country as an American ally in the Middle East instead of Riyadh.

To confirm his desire to undermine the role of Saudi Arabia in the region, Erdogan has allied with Qatar and constantly attacks the boycott countries (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain). These countries stand in the way of Erdogan's control of the region. Erdogan supports Iran in the region and does not comply to the sanctions imposed on it in an attempt to undermine the current Saudi role.

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ANHA