I don't know if such course could be possible;I don't think it was a matter of approach for the Turks but of backround and customs like the cutting of heads of the enemy and attach it to their belts,something they did in Korea,and recently in Anatolia against the Kurds and posed in front of cameras for their achievement,the photograph published in "Huriet" and other papers...A common punishment for captured Greeks was 'impailing' and that 400 years after...Dracula the impailer..
At any rate,to impose iron discipline would have been quite a feat for Turk or Albanian or Kurd soldiers at that time;it needs a generation of young men and constant exercise of discipline and re-education(to an uneducated lot!)to impose such discipline and to avoid committing atrocities;look the behaviour of the French army in Northern Italy and in Spain and you will understand the butchering of the French wounded in the Madua hospitals...
Would the exercise of restrain on the part of the Turks affect the course of the war? I would say not much since European populations were Christians predisposed towards the Greeks and naturally against Muslim Imperialism over European populations.
At any rate,to impose iron discipline would have been quite a feat for Turk or Albanian or Kurd soldiers at that time;it needs a generation of young men and constant exercise of discipline and re-education(to an uneducated lot!)to impose such discipline and to avoid committing atrocities;look the behaviour of the French army in Northern Italy and in Spain and you will understand the butchering of the French wounded in the Madua hospitals...
Would the exercise of restrain on the part of the Turks affect the course of the war? I would say not much since European populations were Christians predisposed towards the Greeks and naturally against Muslim Imperialism over European populations.
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