ÇANAKKALE SAVAŞI’NDA YAHUDİ KATIR BİRLİĞİ

2015 yılı, 1'inci Dünya Savaşı'nın önemli cephelerinden biri olan Çanakkale Savaşı'nın 100'üncü yıldönümüdür. 1'inci Dünya Savaşı diğer toplumlar gibi Yahudi toplumunu da etkilemiştir. Savaş esnasında, Yahudiler, bulundukları ülkelerin ordularında hizmet etmenin yanı sıra, özellikle siyonist çevreler Filistin'i bir Yahudi vatanı durumuna getirmek için önemli bir çaba içinde olmuşlardır. Filistin'e göç faaliyeti ve yeni yerleşimlerin kurulması faaliyetlerine ilave olarak, söz konusu hedefe ulaşabilmek için Yahudilerin asker olarak kullanılması da gündeme gelmiştir. Bu kapsamda, ünlü siyonistler, Vladimir Jabotinsky ve Joseph Trumpeldor'un çabalarıyla Çanakkale Savaşı'nda İngiliz birlikleri içinde görev yapan Yahudi Katır Birliği kurulmuştur. Bu birlik Osmanlı İmparatorluğu tarafından Filistin'den sınır dışı edilen Yahudilerden kurulmuş, komutanlığını İngiliz Albay John Henry Patterson, yardımcılığını Trumpeldor yapmıştır. Böyle bir Yahudi askerî birliğinin kurulması Yahudilik tarihinde daha önce rastlanmamış bir olay olmuş; Yahudiler, tarihte ilk defa siyonist amaçlarını dökmüşlerdir. Yahudilerin İngiliz Ordusu içerisinde olarak yalnızca İngiliz çıkarları için değil, Yahudileri "Vaadedilmiş Topraklara" geri getirmek için de savaşıyor olmaları Yahudilerin tarihinde bir ilkin yaşanmasına yol açmıştır. Bu durum, Yahudilerin siyonizmin gerçekleştirilmesi için savaşabileceklerini; dolayısıyla, Filistin'in başka devletler geleceklerini kendi elleriyle inşa edebileceklerini göstermiştir. Bu çerçevede, bu çalışma, Çanakkale Savaşı'na katılan ve (Romalılara başkaldıran devrimci Yahudi lider Bar Kochba'dan 2000 yıl sonra) kurulan ilk düzenli Yahudi askerî birliği olan Yahudi Katır Birliğini ve faaliyetlerini açıklama amacı gütmektedir

ZION MULE CORPS IN THE GALLIPOLI WAR

identified with Jabotinsky. It made him famous, led to his first exile from Palestine and, was one of the factors that set him and his followers apart from the rest of the zionist movement. As an historic force, Jabotinsky is considered to be the founding father of the Zionist Right (Herut and Likud line in Israeli politics). Jabotinsky announced his opposition to the 1922 Churchill White Paper which limited the establishment of the Jewish settlement to the territory west of the Jordan River and excluded east of the river. His position on this issue led him to resign from the WZO after Ben-Gurion and other leaders accepted the British position. Jabotinsky later established an alternative zionist organization, which is to be called revisionists. Revisionist Zionism was born as a reaction to mainstream zionism of Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann especially during mandate era. Since the establishment of Revisionist Union in April 1925 by Jabotinsky, revisionists were in critique of inactivity and incompetence of official zionist leadership.The revisionist movement triggered the activist nature of Jewish people which had been forgotten for centuries. Indeed, they were the man of deed which believed the salvation by revolt and uprising. The revisionist movement transformed the idea of diplomatic, passive Jews into the fighting family. It was a historic action for them

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