Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for almost the entire duration of WW1. From the 14th Century to the 20th Century, the Ottoman Empire, centred in modern-day Turkey ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed ... For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial. More from Military & Defense A triangle pointing right ...

A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk. Before being pitted against each other in WWI, bad blood between Russia and Turkey dated back to the 16th century. This illustration portrays the ...

By 1914, the Ottoman Empire was already in decline ... some of the key players during WWI were related. According to Britannica, “King George V of the United Kingdom was the first cousin ...

and letters of Aussie soldiers who were in the front line fighting in Palestine during the First World War against the Ottoman Empire. This interview is in Hebrew.

Iran, recognizing the growing challenge posed by Ankara’s neo-Ottoman ambitions, is recalibrating its strategy, seeking detente and even entente with the Gulf monarchies to resist Turkey’s ...