Role of the Ottoman Geopolitics During the First World War
Ottoman Empire had the potential to influence policy on three continents, to expand the war broken out in Europe in 1914, thanks to its geographical position. To continue the war, Germany had to get rid of containment of the Triple Entente, and found the solution to maximize to benefit from the Ot...
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2014-12-01
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| Series: | Gazi Akademik Bakış |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gaziakademikbakis.com/index.php/gab/article/view/234/208 |
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| Summary: | Ottoman Empire had the potential to influence policy on three continents, to expand the war broken out
in Europe in 1914, thanks to its geographical position. To continue the war, Germany had to get rid of
containment of the Triple Entente, and found the solution to maximize to benefit from the Ottoman geopolitics.
Germans succeeded in driving the Ottomans. When the war spread with the Ottoman Empire’s
entry into the war, Germany took a breath in Europe. Thanks to the newly emerging fronts Ottoman
forces drew many Russian and British Colonial divisions on its own divisions. Accumulation of the British
divisions in Egypt; reinforcement of fronts emerged in Gallipoli, Palestine and Iraq; and opening a
second front to Russia was by courtesy of the Ottomans. This was providing strategic advantage to the
Germans. And the Entente powers saw German defeat completing the containment after the Ottoman
Empire out of war. Thus the British took on the Ottomans despite numerous fronts. This blow would
change the Middle East map. |
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| ISSN: | 1307-9778 1307-9778 |