Great sentiment, but the opening statement is far less simplistic than stated:
"On the day of the 18 of December 1878 the Ottomans were defeated and an independence was declared."
Like all national founding myths, the real story is more complication and, in fact, far more interesting--involvement of the British and Bahrain, division on the Peninsula itself, etc. For starters, Qatar wasn't truly independent from the Turks until 1916 and then it was only transferred to the British as a semi-autonomous dependency, where it stayed until 1971.
I would encourage all who are interested to learn about Qatar's founding, which was less a single act and more series of acts over multiple generations that evolved into true independence. It's a great story.
Great sentiment, but the opening statement is far less simplistic than stated:
"On the day of the 18 of December 1878 the Ottomans were defeated and an independence was declared."
Like all national founding myths, the real story is more complication and, in fact, far more interesting--involvement of the British and Bahrain, division on the Peninsula itself, etc. For starters, Qatar wasn't truly independent from the Turks until 1916 and then it was only transferred to the British as a semi-autonomous dependency, where it stayed until 1971.
I would encourage all who are interested to learn about Qatar's founding, which was less a single act and more series of acts over multiple generations that evolved into true independence. It's a great story.