Intro
By 2022, there doesn’t seem to be any #Ahmadis in Turkey. We have found a mission house, however, this is most likely a single Ahmadi who is allowing the Jamaat to use his address.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad never recognized the Khilafat of the Sultan of Turkey (aka the Ottoman Empire)(See the ROR of Mar-April of 1916), the 2nd Khalifa acknowledged this fact in a letter written to Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, the 2nd Khalifa also claimed to be a loyal and obedient servant (they also called the Queen-King of England as their temporal Khalifa). In 1904, via the Urdu ROR, MGA posted a revelation wherein he alleged that Turkey would lose and then come back and win. There are no historical events in this era that would make MGA connect himself to the Ottomans as such.
In 1913, the Ahmadiyya Movement was claiming that MGA had a revelation concerning the Ottoman Empire and its fall, via the Balkan War. 3 years later, Ahmadiyya sources alleged in the May-1916 edition of the ROR that MGA predicted the fall of the Ottoman Empire, however, no specific reference is given (see the sub-ref in the below). The Ahmadiyya Movement was always against the Ottoman empire and refused to accept their khilafat. We are building this essay up, and have thus posted a reference in the below from Al-Hakam. The ROR of Mar-Apr-1918 reports that Maulvi Sher Ali wrote an essay entitled, “The Promised Messiah and the Turkish Empire”. In this essay, he argues that MGA predicted the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The 2nd Khalifa wrote “Turkey ka Mustaqbil aur Musalmanon ka Farz”, which was published in Al Fazl, 27 September 1919. This article was later translated into English as The Future of Turkey and published in The Moslem World, Vol. 10, pp. 274-281. The same article seems to have been published in the ROR of Oct-Nov-1919, dated as 9-16-1919. It is also reported that Syed Zain-ul-Abidin has translated this into Arabic. The future of Turkey is mentioned in the June-1920 edition of the ROR. By 1921, via the ROR of Dec., Ahmadi’s claimed that MGA predicted the dismemberment of the Turkish empire (Ottoman Empire).
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