Tag : Young Turk

And now the Young Turks, who had adopted so many of Abdul Hamid’s ideas, also made his Armenian policy their own

For ten years the Turkish Empire had been undergoing a process of dissolution, and had now reached a state of decrepitude that had left it an easy prey to German diplomacy. In order to understand ...

The withdrawal of the Allied fleet from the Dardanelles had consequences which the world does not yet completely understand (1918)

The withdrawal of the Allied fleet from the Dardanelles had consequences which the world does not yet completely understand. The practical effect of the event, as I have said, was to isolate the Turkish Empire from all the world excepting Germany and ...