Funny thing, last night I watched The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683. The Turks lost that one, too.
| Telling that he dwells on the considerably less than glorious recent past rather than the glorious conquests of earlier centuries... |
[An Nahar] World War I ended with the Ottoman Empire vanquished and facing imminent collapse, its doomed alliance with Imperial Germany costing hundreds of thousands of Ottoman lives and dealing a death blow to the already creaking empire.
But 100 years after the surrender of the Ottomans to the Allied powers at Mudros on October 30, 1918, the Great War is in no way seen as a pointless waste or even a defeat by modern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... |