J.D.Ward
Donor
If Turkey joins the Entente, can Germany persude Greece to join the Central Powers? They can be offered generous rewards (think of OTL Treaty of Sevres) for joining in an anti-Turkish war.
If Turkey joins the Entente, can Germany persude Greece to join the Central Powers? They can be offered generous rewards (think of OTL Treaty of Sevres) for joining in an anti-Turkish war.
Second, this idea that the Ottoman Empire was some backward, corrupt, fanatically religious place until Ataturk showed up and magically transformed it into a modern secular state is just ridiculous. The empire had been on a secularist and reformist trajectory since the 1830s, and the Young Turk Revolution was the culmination of this trend.
Turkey was left in 1923 with a fraction of the economic and intellectual resources that the Empire had had in 1911. .
Ataturk's fascist dictatorship
1830 through to the start of the First World War’s generally referred to as the century of decline in most histories.
No nation came out of The Great War with anything like what they went in with.
Ataturk was neither a Fascist nor a Communist.
And I think his status as Father of the Nation will continue to stand the test of time.