page_title: Mauser Model 1889
section_title: Mauser 1890
hierarchical_section_title: Mauser Model 1889 / History / Mauser 1890
caption_attribution_description: Български: Турски войник. Ελληνικά: Τούρκος στρατιώτης. English: Ottoman rediff (local reservist in the Balkans). He wears a red fez with blue tassel, the 1893 dark blue uniform and peasant socks and shoes. (see Jowett, Philip. Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13: The priming charge for the Great War. Men-at-Arms 466. Osprey Publishing. 2011. p. 24. ISBN 9781849084185.)
context_page_description: The Mauser Model 1889 was a bolt-action rifle of Belgian origin. It became known as the 1889 Belgian Mauser, 1891 Argentine Mauser, and 1890 Turkish Mauser.
context_section_description: The Belgians talks with Mauser prompted the Ottoman Empire, whose contract for Model 1887 rifles included an "escape clause" allowing them to alter their order to account for any new advancements the Mauser brothers made, to consider the design. In the end they ordered 280,000 pieces of an improved version of the 89 Mauser known as the Turkish Model 1890 rifle. It used a slightly modified 7.65 round. A Model 1890 carbine was also supplied in smaller numbers. These rifles saw service during the First Balkan War and World War I. Large numbers of these rifles were captured by the British Army during World War I and sent to supply the Belgian Army. Mauser 1890 rifles were fielded by both Nationalist and Sultanate armies during the Turkish War of Independence. Some of these rifles were captured by Kurdish and Circassian rebels. In the 1950s, these rifles were still kept in reserve but many of them were rebuilt and rechambered in 7.92×57mm during the 1930s. During the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, old Mauser 1890 rifles were used by Turkish Cypriots.
  The Royal Yugoslav Army received Turkish Mausers as war reparation. Some were used unmodified as Puska M90 T and others shortened as Puska M 03 T. Some of these rifles were captured by the Nazi Germany and designated Gewehr 297 (j).
caption: An Ottoman soldier with a M1890 rifle.
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