Ottoman Troops Liberate Tunisia!

Officials caution jihad against European Imperialism far from over.

Ottoman troops landing at Gammarth in the Gulf of Tunis, 15 kilometers north of the city.

TUNIS (October 15, 1905) – Thousands of true believers lined the streets of Tunisia’s capital today to hail the arrival of their Muslim liberators. With the French Naval squadron driven from the region and eventually scuttled off the North African coast a division of Ottoman Marines landed at Gammarth, 15 kilometers north of the capital in the early morning hours of the 15th of October before marching south unopposed to liberate the twice occupied beleaguered Tunisian capital.
Upon entering the city the Marines paraded through to the cities main square greeted by flowers, cheers, and tears from the cities inhabitants. Local crowds tore down symbols of the French occupation casting flags, signs, and banners into open pyres in the city centre. The Ottoman Marines were also shown evidence of Italian atrocities committed in the name of order and economic exploitation.
The commander of the 3rd Marine Division General Adem Celik met with tribal leaders at Tunis’ city hall before addressing a throng of jubilant spectators. Celik celebrated Sultan Abdulhamid the II, The Grand Vizier, and the valor of the Ottoman Navy before cautioning that this days triumph did not mark the end of the Ottoman Empire’s war with the Imperial powers of Western Europe.
This tone was echoed in Istanbul by the Grand Vizier writing to the nation in the evening edition of the October 15th newspaper. The Grand Vizier wrote “This is not the end, no it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”