The Birth of Modern Turkey
Subtitle: The Ottoman Military and the March to WWI (International Library of Twentieth Centruy History)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781850437970
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Military - World War I; History: World; History; History - General History; ASIA; Turkey; Military policy; Middle East - Turkey; History / Middle East; Middle East - General; 20th century; Politics and government
First sentence: The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in its 1877-8 war with Russia, and its consequent loss of extensive territories under the 1878 treaties of San Stefano and Berlin, were followed by three decades of autocratic monarchical rule by Sultan Abdülhamid II.