Dipnotlar

1 Osmanlı’nın silahlı tarafsızlığı ve el konulan gemiler nedeniyle İngiltere, Osmanlı Devleti’nin vatandaşlarına şüpheyle yaklaşmıştı. Churchill hatıralarında buna temas eder ve Osmanlı’nın savaşa girmesiyle de sivil temsilcilikler ve vatandaşlara yönelik yaptırımlar uygulanmıştı. Bir örnek için bakınız Evren Küçük, “Knockaloe Kampında Bir Osmanlı Diplomatı: Reşid Sadi Bey’in Esareti (1915-1918)”, Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, C. 12, S. 1 (2017), ss. 83-108.

2 Diğeri Robert Rosenthal’dir. Samuel Weber, “First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Executing German Spies at the Tower of London During World War One”, Voces Novae: Chapman University Historical Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2003), p. 164.

3 Sidney T. Felstead, German Spies at Bay, Brentano’s, New York 1920, p. 135.

4 Başkanlık Osmanlı Arşivi (BOA), Hariciye Nezareti Londra Sefareti (HR.SFR.3), Dosya No: 708/Gömlek No: 52-1, From Albert Meyer’s Letter to Turkish Embassy, 16th September 1914.

5 Küçük, “Knockaloe Kampında Bir Osmanlı Diplomatı...”, s. 85.

6 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/52-1, From Albert Meyer’s Letter to Turkish Embassy, 16th September 1914.

7 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/52-1, From Albert Meyer’s Letter to Turkish Embassy, 16th September 1914.

8 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/52-2, From Queensferry to Imperial Ottoman Embassy, 14th September 1914.

9 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/78-1, From Queensferry to Imperial Ottoman Embassy, 29th September 1914.

10 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/78-2. Undated and untitled.

11 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65847441/albert-meyer (Erişim Tarihi: 19.02.2020)

12 The National Archives (TNA), War Office (WO), 141/83, From Percy Robinson, to The Secretary of State for War, November 26th, 1915.

13 TNA, WO., 141/8, Secret Document From Carter, 10 September 1915.

14 TNA, WO., 141/8, Translation of a message in invisable ink written on a letter dated London, June 29th, 1915.

15 TNA, WO., 141/8, Secret Document From Carter, 10 September 1915.

16 TNA, WO., 141/8-16C, 63/3342 Secret Document,  24 November 1915; Felstead, German Spies at Bay, p. 156.

17 Weber, “First as Tragedy, Second as Farce...”, p. 164.

18 BOA, HR.SFR.3, 708/78-2. Undated and untitled.

19 TNA, WO, 141/8-16C/2, Secret Document, 24 November 1915.