Ottoman's in ww1

Tell me more about their role in ww1, they seemed to preform a lot better then they were capable of or expected to

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Nah, they got shrekt by the Russians in the Caucasus (it was stupid), and the Brits and French in their Middle Eastern Possessions.

The thing is, however, plenty of their officer corps survived WWI, and learned from the experience, allowing them to pull this off.

>they seemed to preform a lot better then they were capable of or expected to
Based on what, Gallipoli? T.E. Lawrence said that he wouldn't be nearly as famous and respected if he could just make people understand how stupid and ill-prepared the Turks were.

>germans gift two ships
>those ships open fire on a russian harbor
>well, welcome to ww1
>"hey arabs, jihad against the infidel?"
>"no, we rather suck anglo cuck"
>fuckmylife.jpg
>british are halted in iraq, but russians slowly advance
>cannot stop russians
>french and anglos are attempting a naval invasion of çanakkale
>they bring muslim infantry from india but they defect to ottoman side instead
>they bring anzacs now
>defend the strait outgunned and outnumbered
>triumph at the end
>after a while british choose to advance on mesopotamian plains
>grind them to halt
>sudden revolution, no more russians
>illoveyouallah.png
>lose flat lands of mesopotamia and levant to british, but with the mountainous landscape of anatolia, this war is not over
>"what, you're telling me germany has surrendered?"
>"fuck this shit, i'm out"

*anglo cock

how it began

>3 pasha government more adventurous than smart
>recently forced by russians to sign treaty designating eastern armenian-inhabited provinces as russian protectorate within the empire
>ottomans (rightly, although it doesn't justify the genocide) figure this is a prelude to losing yet more land to nationalist movements, drag their feet as much as possible about actually signing the treaty
>desperate to find friends to protect them from russia, actually approach the entente early on offering to help fight germany/A-H in return for guarantees of territorial integrity
>only berlin offers what istanbul is buying
>timely snub by Britain over commandeering commissioned cruisers provides popular incentive, sheltering german ships in the mediterranean provides casus belli
>ottoman state utterly exhausted after balkan wars, but pashas figure this will just be a war of distracting the russians while the germans fuck them up and then getting a comfy place at the negotiating table

choose your adventure
>jihad and WW1
>the arab revolt
>early war otter men decisions/performance
>late war otter men decisions/performance
>strengths/weaknesses of the otter men army relative to other WW1 belligerents

Anglo cuck is the more widely accepted term.

>Tell me more about their role in ww1

Imagine a Muslim Version of the AustroHungarian Empire, a heavily divided country with a proud history hoping to preserve its integrity from the tumultuous forces of nationalism and reverse its decline.

(plus they were also hoping that if they won they would be able to cancel 80% of their foreign debt which was owed to France and the UK)


> they seemed to preform a lot better then they were capable of or expected to

Perhaps after the War but during the war they performed rather poorly and their achievements were effectively not totally collapsing under pressure.

Honestly their history just prior and just after the War is far more interesting, their divided elites and the way they were ambivalent but after seeing the Russians get fucking wrecked by the Germans launched their own mini pearl harbor against Russia and later declared war.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Raid

In Gallipoli, sure.
But they got destroyed in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Raid
Holy shit. What a clusterfuck.
>"Oh Allah, we did WHAT!?"

I accidentally a whole empire.

Their infrastructure was complete shit. away from turkey and major supply centers the couldn't really fight effectively. at Gallipoli which is near constantinople though they were nearly as capable as any other european power though.

The Ottomans surrendered before the Germans, though.

youtube.com/watch?v=-wGQGEOTf4E

That's why the Berlin to Baghdad Railway seemed like such a good idea.

Why did he think that moustache looked good

Anatolia was piss backwards and had no fucking industry to speak of, whatever industry it had was controlled by Western nations due to debts


Poorly equipped and trained army, largely illiterate people that nearly buckled under pressure of taxation from the govt


Frankly I am surprised they did not explode before the war

First and last adventure pleas

Yo Ottoman, where were you when the Squid totally beefed it?

It was a losing battle for the Turks but at least it produced the greatest memelord of the century

You left out the remarkable plan to get Afghanistan to invade India

Never heard of this. Sounds interesting.

>First attempt
>In an ineffective ruse, the Germans attempted to reach Turkey by travelling overland through Austria-Hungary in the guise of a travelling circus, eventually reaching neutral Romania. Their equipment, arms, and mobile radios were confiscated when Romanian officials discovered the wireless aerials sticking out through the packaging of the "tent poles".[16] Replacements could not be arranged for weeks; the delegation waited at Constantinople. To reinforce the Islamic identity of the expedition, it was suggested that the Germans wear Turkish army uniforms, but they refused
It was a total clusterfuck of ineptitude, and the second attempt actually got to Afghanistan, met the Emir and when he asked how the hell Germany and the Ottomans proposed to help him invade India they had no answers