Video - The Egypt Belongs to the Egyptians Movement of 1882
Again, with the propaganda of the British countrey, the local population rebelled against the Ottomans on July 11, 1882. Egyptian Miralay (Colonel) Ahmet Irabi started the "Egypt Belongs to the Egyptians" movement with his Patriotic organization. He was supposed to liberate Egypt. The Europeans immediately withdrew their own men in the Egyptian administration. And in Istanbul, they forced the sultan to send troops to suppress the uprising in Egypt. The aim of the British; When the Turkish army entered Egypt and began to clash with the Egyptians, it was to make the locals accept themselves as liberators by saying, "Look, the Ottomans from your religion are killing you". Britain and France sent one armored vehicle to the Port of Alexandria. Colonel Ahmed Irabi besieged Alexandria, again with the British counter-provocations, killed hundreds of European people, including Britons, in the city of Alexandria and had their houses burned down. It led to the intervention of the Englishman. England and France sent a fleet this time and held the city of Alexandria for six and a half hours, starting in the morning. T in the city