>>509931375>blaming Muslims for the actions of Jews/Freemasonshttps://www.dailysabah.com/arts/young-turks-jews-freemasons-and-the-armenian-deportation/news
But the main intellectual engines of the Committee of Union and Progress were Italian Jews. The most famous among them was Emmanuel Carasso, the master of the masonic lodge in Thessaloniki, to which the Young Turks belonged. Working with Venetian businessman Giuseppe Volpi, Carasso had distributed four tins of gold he attained from an Italian bank to the Unionists to start the 1908 revolution. He boasted, "What we couldn't get Sultan Abdulhamid to do for TL 25 million what we had the Unionists do for TL 400,000."
In this regard, the British ambassador in Istanbul, Sir Gerard Lowther, wrote in a letter to Sir Charles Hardinge, the official head of the British Foreign Office, on May 29, 1910, and said:
"The Young Turkey movement in Paris was quite separate from and in great part in ignorance of the inner workings of that in Salonica ... Some years ago Emmanuele Carasso, a Jewish Mason of Salonica, and now a deputy for that town in the Ottoman Chamber, founded there a lodge called 'Macedonia Risorta' in connection with Italian Freemasonry ... The inspiration of the movement in Salonica would seem to have been mainly Jewish, while the words 'Liberte,' 'Egalite' and 'Fraternite,' the motto of the Young Turks, are also the device of Italian Freemasons. The colors of both, red and white, are again the same. Shortly after the revolution in July 1908, when the Committee established itself in Constantinople, it soon became known that many of its leading members were Freemasons ... It was noticed that Jews of all colors, native and foreign, were enthusiastic supporters of the new dispensation, till, as a Turk expressed it, every Hebrew seemed to become a potential spy of the occult Committee, and people began to remark that the movement was rather a Jewish than a Turkish revolution."
