British and Irish attitudes towards their Turkish enemy during the First World War have rarely been explored. Unlike the German ‘Hun’, Turks were praised as ‘clean fighters’, despite overwhelming evidence of the Armenian Genocide. Using largely unexamined press material, this article attributes the ‘clean-fighting Turk’s’ longevity to the sanctity of soldier testimony, where it originated, and the preoccupation with Germany. Both Turkish chivalry, which highlighted German ‘barbarity’ by contrast, and Germano-centric interpretations of the Armenian Genocide offered hitherto unrecognized validation of the United Kingdom’s ‘just war’ in Europe. The First World War was truly global, but Germany dominated the public imagination.

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第一次世界大战中的种族灭绝和“干净的土耳其人”英国和爱尔兰

第一次世界大战期间英国和爱尔兰对土耳其敌人的态度很少被探讨。与德国的“匈奴”不同，土耳其人被称赞为“干净的战士”，尽管有压倒性的亚美尼亚种族灭绝证据。本文主要使用未经审查的新闻材料，将“干净战斗的土耳其人”的长寿归因于士兵证词的神圣性、它的起源以及对德国的关注。突显德国“野蛮”的土耳其骑士精神，以及以德国为中心的对亚美尼亚种族灭绝的解释，都为英国在欧洲的“正义战争”提供了迄今为止未被承认的证据。第一次世界大战确实是全球性的，但德国主导了公众的想象。