Germany drew away from Russia and became closer to Austria-Hungary, with whom she concluded the Dual Alliance in Germany also closely allied with the Ottoman Empire and reorganized the Ottoman military and financial system; in return, it received several commercial concessions, including permission to build the Baghdad Railway, which secured them access to several important economic markets and had the potential for German entry into the Persian Gulf area controlled by Britain.
Germany was driven not only by commercial interests, but also by an imperialistic and militaristic rivalry with Britain. Meanwhile, Britain agreed to the Entente Cordiale with France in , thereby resolving differences between the two countries over international affairs. Britain also reconciled with Russia in with the Anglo-Russian Entente. The continuing collapse of the Ottoman Empire led to two wars in the Balkans, in and , which were a prelude to world war.
By nation states had formed in Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia, but many of their ethnic compatriots lived under the control of the Ottoman Empire. In , these countries formed the Balkan League. There were three main causes of the First Balkan War. The Ottoman Empire was unable to reform itself, govern satisfactorily, or deal with the rising ethnic nationalism of its diverse peoples.
Second, the Great Powers quarreled among themselves and failed to ensure that the Ottomans would carry out the needed reforms. This led the Balkan states to impose their own solution.
Most important, the members of the Balkan League were confident that it could defeat the Turks. Their prediction was accurate, as Constantinople called for terms after six weeks of fighting. After five centuries, the Ottoman Empire lost virtually all of its possessions in the Balkans.
The occupation of the Ottoman Empire by the Allies in the aftermath of World War I prompted the establishment of the Turkish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal.
This led to the Turkish War of Independence, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
The occupation of some parts of the country by the Allies in the aftermath of World War I prompted the establishment of the Turkish National Movement. By September 18, , the occupying armies were expelled. On November 1, the newly founded parliament formally abolished the Sultanate, thus ending years of Ottoman rule. On November 13, , a French brigade entered the city to begin the Occupation of Constantinople and its immediate dependencies, followed by a fleet consisting of British, French, Italian, and Greek ships deploying soldiers on the ground the next day.
A wave of seizures by the Allies took place in the following months. The Turkish National Movement encompasses the political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries that resulted in the creation and shaping of the modern Republic of Turkey as a consequence of the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and the subsequent occupation of Constantinople and partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by the Allies under the terms of the Armistice of Mudros.
Few of the present British, French, and Italian troops were deployed or engaged in combat. The ensuing Battle of Sakarya was fought from August 23 to September 13, and ended with the defeat of the Greeks. The next day, Mustafa Kemal sent a telegram to the League of Nations saying that the Turkish population was so worked up that the Ankara Government would not be responsible for massacres.
By September 18, , the occupying armies were expelled, and the Ankara-based Turkish regime, which had declared itself the legitimate government of the country on April 23, , started to formalize the legal transition from the old Ottoman into the new Republican political system. On November 1, , the Turkish Parliament in Ankara formally abolished the Sultanate, ending years of monarchical Ottoman rule. The Lausanne treaty stipulated a population exchange between Greece and Turkey in which 1.
On March 3, , the Ottoman Caliphate was officially abolished and the last Caliph was exiled. Turkish War of Independence: Clockwise from top left: Delegation gathered in Sivas Congress to determine the objectives of the National Struggle; Turkish people carrying ammunition to the front; Kuva-yi Milliye infantry; Turkish horse cavalry in chase; the Turkish army entering Izmir; last troops gathered in Ankara Ulus Square leaving for the front.
In , the Ottoman government decided to issue the Tehcir Law, which started the mass deportation of ethnic Armenians, particularly from the provinces close to the Ottoman-Russian front. This resulted in what became known as the Armenian Genocide.
The starting date is conventionally considered April 24, , the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported to Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches to the Syrian desert.
Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.
Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide. Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters and coin the word genocide in The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged as one of the first modern genocides, with scholars noting the organized manner in which the Armenians were eliminated.
When a new Sultan was crowned, his brothers would be imprisoned. This system ensured that the rightful heir would take the throne. But, not every Sultan followed this harsh ritual. Over time, the practice evolved. In the later years, the brothers would only be put in prison—not killed. A total of 36 Sultans ruled the Ottoman Empire between and For many of these years, the Ottoman Sultan would live in the elaborate Topkapi palace complex in Istanbul.
It contained dozens of gardens, courtyards and residential and administrative buildings. Part of the Topkapi palace included the harem, a separate quarters reserved for wives, concubines and female slaves. These women were positioned to serve the Sultan, while the men in the harem complex were typically eunuchs. The threat of assassination was always a concern for a Sultan. He relocated every night as a safety measure. Some millets paid taxes, while others were exempt. In the 14th century, the devshirme system was created.
This required conquered Christians to give up 20 percent of their male children to the state. The children were forced to convert to Islam and become slaves. Although they served as slaves, some of the converts became powerful and wealthy. Many were trained for government service or the Ottoman military.
The elite military group, known as the Janissaries, was primarily made up of forced Christian converts. Starting in the s, the Ottoman Empire began to lose its economic and military dominance to Europe. Around this time, Europe had strengthened rapidly with the Renaissance and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Other factors, such as poor leadership and having to compete with trade from the Americas and India, led to the weakening of the empire. Amongst many other military successes, he was to annihilate the last serious crusade sent from Europe to counter the rising tide of Islamic power. However, in , he had to face a new threat: that of the legendary warlord Tamerlane actual title Emir Timur , a brutal 14 th -century warlord born in what is now Uzbekistan, who amassed an empire that stretched from present day India to Turkey, and Russia to Saudi Arabia.
The two met at the battle of Ankara, where more than , men, horses and even war elephants clashed. Accounts of the battle are fairly sketchy and often contradictory. However, the core of the Ottoman force fought bravely. The battle was vicious and the resulting carnage was enormous. Bayezid might have been up against a man who was his equal in leadership, but Tamerlane simply had more of everything — and some elephants.
These events almost undid the empire just years into its history. More than 30 of the sultans were the sons of women from the harem. Why is that salient? Most of their backgrounds have been lost to the mists of time, but it seems most were European women, so Serbs, Greeks, Ukrainians. Similarly, any of the legendary Janissaries [an elite fighting corps within the army], including the famous architect Mimar Sinan who started his career as a Janissary, were all Christian children who had been brought into this elite fighting force and then converted to Islam.
In the west, he has become known as Suleiman the Magnificent. In the east, he is remembered as Suleiman the Lawgiver. Political intrigue within the sultanate, strengthening of European powers, economic competition because of new trade routes, and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution all destabilized the once peerless empire. It would take a world war to end the Ottoman Empire for good. Already weakened beyond recognition, Sultan Abdul Hamid II briefly flirted with the idea of constitutional monarchy before changing course in the late s.
In , the reform-minded Young Turks staged a full-fledged revolt and restored the constitution. The Young Turks who now ruled the Ottoman Empire wanted to strengthen it, spooking its Balkan neighbors. The war that followed was disastrous. More than two thirds of the Ottoman military became casualties during World War I, and up to 3 million civilians died. Among them were around 1. All rights reserved. Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.
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