The beginnings of Ottoman-German partnership : diplomatic and military relations between Germany and the Ottoman Empire before the First World War
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Date
2003Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This thesis analyses the course and nature of Ottoman-German diplomatic and military
relations before the First World War. It suggests that Germany and the Ottoman Empire
acted according to their own political interests since their first interaction at the
beginning of the eighteenth century, although their diplomatic relations were mostly
cordial. Far from being close collaborative partners before the First World War, the
eventual alliance of the two empires during the war was the natural outcome of each
empire’s own political and military objectives rather than the outcome of their friendship
before the war. The thesis also studies the Baghdad Railroad Project, the Russian threat
against Germany as well as the Ottomans, the German military reform missions to the
army of the Sultan, and the political situation in the Empire in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.