Explore What if the Central Powers had won World War I? In this alternate history exploration, we dive into a world where Germany emerges victorious, redrawing the map of Europe and reshaping global ...

Ottoman ambitions in WW1 When war was declared in 1914, the Ottoman Empire sided with the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and abandoned its position of neutrality.

What sparked the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I? In this episode, Kings and Generals dives into the complex causes behind the Arab uprising — from long-standing ...

The Ottoman Empire shelled the Russian port of Odessa 100 years ago today, entering into the Great War on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Christian Science Monitor reported as it ...

World War I transformed the Middle East in ways it had not seen for centuries. The Europeans, who had colonized much of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, completed the takeover with the ...

Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The ...

Should the fading Ottoman Empire join the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) or go with the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary)? Turkey’s 500-year-old empire was shrinking.

The German parliament has passed a symbolic resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as a “genocide.” The resolution was passed with a “striking majority ...

Germany’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to recognize the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings and deportations of Armenians as genocide, prompting Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan to warn ...