HIS 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Young Turks, Turkish Straits, Turkish Language
25 Sep 2017
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The first world war: single most important event in the middle east in 20th century. Tanzimat: forced the sultan to reinstate the parliament, sultan sent into exile and his brother took the power transfer of power from. On the eve of first world war: european system of alliance, triple entente france, gb, russia, central powers gernamy, austria-hungary, Italy: started with the assassination of ferdinand, european affair why did ottomans entered the war. Agreements: signed to avoid post-war disagreements for european powers, constantinople agreement (gb-france-russia) 1915, not as important as russia does not stay in the war for its entire duration diffuses in. 1917: powers met and decided what each would receive when winning the war. Russia recognized all the asian and arab lands would become french and british spheres of infuence: hussein/mcmahon correspondence july 1915-march 1916, correspondence between british high commissioner in egypt (mcmahon) and sharif in.
