Complex sentence: In the summer of 1915 the Ottomans persuaded the Grand Senussi Ahmed Sharif es Senussi, to raise jihad, attack British-occupied Egypt from the west and encourage insurrection in Egypt, to divert British forces from an Ottoman attack on the Suez Canal from the east.
Split into simpler sentences: In the summer of 1915 the Ottomans persuaded the Grand Senussi Ahmed Sharif es Senussi, to raise jihad, attack British-occupied Egypt from the west and encourage insurrection in Egypt. The Ottomans wished to foment trouble in the west of Egypt, to divert British forces from their attempt to capture the Suez Canal from the east.