Well, nothing was wrong with Ottomans fighting capabilities, as long as they were properly led they were capable of doing a lot.BUt, they were hobbled by their lack of industrial capacity, and had to rely on Germans for a lot of things.
Does anyone even know how much Ottomans produced during the war, and how much aid they received? Also, since I am interested in other CP members other then Germany, does anyone know Ottoman TOE during the war, for divisions and regiments and so on? I have tried to find it, but I was unable.
In 1914, the Ottoman Empire comprised about 15m Turks, 10m Arabs, 1.7m Greeks and 1.1m Armenians. This multi-ethnic empire's population of 28 million was a religious mix of 80% Muslim to 20% non-Muslim. Three quarters of the population lived in the Anatolian core. The GDP of the empire was about £ 233m pounds. National debt stood at £140m pounds or about 60% GDP (half held by the French) but this can't have been too much risk as bond rates were at 0.78% and this is a tenth of the rates on Greek bonds.
The war cost 6 times more than expected at about 3m lira per month. Part of the terms for the August 1914 Turko-German Alliance was a 5m lira loan (100m gold marks) at 6% interest from the Germans which was supplied in October 1914. Even this wasn't enough for the Turks to declare war and Souchon took it apon himself to provoke the Russians, with tacit approval of the War Minister, by having the navy attack the Russians at the end of the month to cement the alliance. The economic measures being imposed saw the resignation of the Finance Minister on November 2nd 1914. A further 80m gold marks were supplied in April 1915 by which stage the Turks had also run up 150m gold marks in credit with German arms manufacturers. In addition to money printing (qualitative easing) and 50m lira worth of requisitions, the Ottomans also borrowed a total of 235m lira from Germany (about 4 billion gold marks). The resilience of Turks was quite impressive. For GB the war doubled prices, France they tripled and Germany quadrupled before collapse. Turkish prices went up 18 fold. By 1918 GDP had declined 40% and the cost of living had risen by 2000% since 1914, impoverishing anyone on a fixed salary. Even if Germany had won the war, Turkey would have been reduced to economic servitude to pay back these massive debts.
Army
Ottoman Army 1914 36 divisions
1st Army (HQ Selimiye Barracks - Istanbul)
I. Corps Thrace (Istanbul) [1st, 2nd & 3rd Inf Div]
II. Corps Thrace (Tekfur Dağı) [4th, 5th & 6th Inf Div]
III. Corps Thrace (Kırklareli) [7th, 8th & 9th Inf Div]
IV. Corps Thrace [10th, 11th & 12th Inf Div]
V. Corps Anatolia (Ankara) [13th, 14th & 15th Inf Div]
2nd Army (Aleppo HQ)
VI. Corps Thrace [16th & 26th Inf Div]
3rd Army (Erzincan HQ)
IX. Corps Erzurum [17th, 28th & 29th Inf Div]
X. Corps Erzincan [30th, 31st & 32nd Inf Div]
XI. Corps Van [18th, 33rd & 34th Inf Div]
4th Army (Baghdad)
VIII. Corps Damascus [23rd, 25th & 27th Inf Div]
XII. Corps Mosul [35th & 36th Inf Div]
6th Army
XIII. Corps Baghdad [37th Inf Div]
VII. Corps (Yemen, Red Sea) [39th & 40th Inf Div]