The ‘Young Turk Zeitgeist’ in the Middle Eastern Uprisings in the Aftermath of World War I
Journal: edoc (University of Basel)
Year: 2016

At the end of World War I Winston Churchill said: "The war of the giants has ended; the quarrels of the pygmies have begun." 1 Retrospectively the historical impact of the political struggles that occurred from the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1917 until the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 (the aftermath period as I refer to it in this chapter) was far greater than that of the battles won and lost during the war years.The aftermath of World War I is a complex historical peri