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	Têtes de Turcs 15 July 1915 Allah Soit Loué!
	Panel 3: His grandfather, Osman * bravely died, killed by the French at Sebastopol; his father was beaten like a Young Turk,** left as an old Turk and finally killed by a Bulgarian. As for our narrator, he doesn't ask for anything, just to be left alone, but seeing a German soldier blown to bits, he murmers, "Allah be Praised"!

background on the Ottoman Empire
History of Ottoman Empire from Encyclopedia Britannica

* Osman refers to the term Ottoman by its Turkish name, Osmanli.
Osman I was the founder of the Turkish Empire.
**The Young Turks were a liberal, reformist movement who deposed the Sultan in 1909.