The Ottoman Empire in WWI

The Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey and Middle East) played kind of a weird role in the First World War. Fighting in the Middle East, the Ottomans were on Germany's side, but also kinda just did their own thing. Tune in to this slightly above average video to find out more!
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Ottoman : Our country is in political turmoil, is underdeveloped, unstable, has many separatist group, and constantly in war for years. Also ottoman : Let's join the world war!

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The Ottoman Empire wanted to join the war on side of Allies. The Brits didn't want that tho it is extra soldiers on their side. Plus they seized two warships made in Britain originally meant for the Ottoman navy, paid by the Ottoman Empire. Thus they understood they are not a side but the prize of the war. ie oil fields of the Middle East. So they decided to support Germans.

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France is older and is still around

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@@rickverheij7782 it isnt the same thing..The Ottoman empire was founded 1299 and collapsed 1922.France as we know today was born in 1792

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@@rickverheij7782 if you count French Kingdom as France then you can count Huns as Ottomans.Then we have an 2700 and maybe older Empire.

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The whole Gallipoli campaign can be described as the British did an oopsie

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Also most of Australia’s supplies were sent from the soldiers family members because the British struggled with logistics. We were forced to fight with outdated weapons and the modern weapons we received rarely came with ammunition because the British commanders believed it was too expensive to use. So we were forced to fight with glorified spears. While most of our soldiers were suffering from malnutrition and disease due to how bad the living and eating conditions were. Anything that wasn’t a fly or off canned meat was considered a luxury.

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​@@NDLBE Search up Jerusalem... in fact just search up the entire campaign in the middle east because the Turks got beaten. A fact often brushed aside so people can masterbate over British set backs.

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No mention of the Bergmann Offensive? No mention of the Russian-coordinated rebellions in Eastern Anatolia? No mention of the Persian or Galician Expeditions? Would have been nice if you had discussed the Dashnaks as much as you did the Arab Revolt.

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Yeah, also that the British tried to divide and rule the Ottomans way before WW1, because of the trade routes to India. The liberation of Greece is just one example of that. Or the conquering of Egypt. Also no mention of "Lawrence of Arabia". But we got a rap and a few seconds of a guy starring at his monitor. Guess its okay. :)

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The Dashnaks had been in Ottoman Armenia since the 1890's, not necessarily a direct WW1 thing

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@@matheuroux5134 Well, the Dashnaks existence in the armenian populace in WW1 is exactly what lead to the deaths in the first place

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@@adidoki a small proportion of the population led to more than a million deaths, most of which were civilian? Yeah no

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Of course most of these People weren't dasnak but more civils were joining dasnak each Day.. Why would they waste time distinguishing Who is dasnak Who is not. send everyone away from russians and dasnak armenians from war front so they never be able t njoin russians. War problems require war solutions..sorry. Armenians died from starvation btw..ı listen some armenian survivors and they all talk about being exiled and half of them died from famine.. 1.5 million is overexageration. The nubers reported is 900.000 to 1 million by armenians, 500.000 to 600.000 by Ottoman archives..

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I'M FROM TURKEY AND THAT LAST SONG BIT WAS SO FUNNY IM FUVKING DYING LMAO

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@@lessthanpinochet okay,, as I am a Turk, I am sorry for all those worst things by name of my society. Because, your society is still a part of the Anatolia and our cultures. I always admired of Armenian Architecture. some of armenians are still living in Turkey and they are good people. I had anytime no bad feelings about Armenians.

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they wanted the balkans back. because ottoman empire lost it because of the politics inside the military.