POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Religious Zionism, Antisemitism, Mehmed V

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3060
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

Lecture 5: turkish nationalism, arab nationalism and zionism ii. World war one and british and french intrigues. Sultan mehmed v opposed to entering wwi, wanted empire to remain non-belligerent nation. Germany wanted empire to enter as part of the central powers. Secret agreement between high-ranking officials (such as minister of war, interior. And not all parts of government agreed; preferred alliance with britain and france. Shortly after agreement, when germany attacked russian port with ships flying turkish banner, ottomans actively in the war. With germany"s loss of wwi, ottoman empire divided up into most of the state we know today. Treaty of sevres (august1920) officially abolishes the ottoman empire. Greater syria (present day syria and lebanon) Iraq under king faisal / faysal (son of sherif hussein / husayn) Jordan under king abdullah (brother of faisal; son of hussein) The spread of the arab nation after wwi. Arab nationalism largely becomes popularized after wwi.