British Anatolia

'''Brits Anatolië (Turks: İngiliz Anadolu) was een kolonie die de moderne republiek Turkije gevormd. Na het Ottomaanse rijk viel, veroverden Britse troepen Anatolië en verworven er zijn kolonie van. Het bleef een kolonie voor minder dan een ja '''ar.

History
In late 1922, the Ottoman Empire weakened. After the systematic killings of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians, the empire ultimately dissolved afterwards. Because there was no actual government presiding after the empire came to an end, British troops swiftly took Anatolia and created a crown colony in the region. The first and only monarch of the colony was King George V.

The Turks were unhappy about being under British administration, but fortunately, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk brought reformation to Turkey, and after fighting the Turkish War of Independence, the British left Anatolia, and a new country known as Turkey gained sovereignty.

Criticism of the colony
Multiple Turkish philosophers, nationalists, and citizens alike heavily criticized the British presence in Anatolia. The Turkish citizens had their course of human rights violations, killings, forced English language tutoring, etc. One elite philosopher, Mehmet Akagündüz, a Turk-Circassian, was fully against the British presence in Anatolia. He was one of the main philosophers who was against the British. In fact, he was pro-Kemalism.

Unfortunately, he was killed on October 27, 1922 (just two days before Turkey became a republic) by British officials after he allegedly attempted an assassination of the British Anatolian officials.

Languages
The primary languages spoken in British Anatolia were English and Turkish. There was forced English language tutoring to the population in an attempt to "reduce literacy", but Turkish (specifically 'kaba Türkçe') was still the primary language of the population, despite not being a written language (yet). Other minority languages spoken included a good portion of the languages spoken in modern Turkey, which included Kurdish, Zazaki, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, Laz, Georgian, etc.

Religion
The majority of the population was Muslim. When the British entered, there were a minority of Protestants, but the number of Protestants in modern Turkey is now very little.