In this video, we take a fascinating journey into alternate history by exploring the five major peace deals that marked the ...

In this documentary, we explore how the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in World War I, forming a strategic alliance ...

Yiğit Akin is the author of [When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire]. He discussed his book, which looks at the impact of World War I on ordinary ...

World War I completed the European takeover of the Ottoman Empire's territories in the Middle East, and the region's modern boundaries emerged. NPR's Mike Shuster continues his series on the ...

Swimming in a sea of military defeats, the Ottoman leadership, it seems, should have opted for less war, not more, in 1914. The generation at the helm of the state, however, welcomed the July Crisis ...

France and Russia (and many other countries) were allies in World War 1 against the Ottoman Empire, German Empire, Austria Hungary and Bulgaria. The pre-World War 1 Ottoman Empire included Turkey and ...

The Russian Empire supported Slavic movements in Serbia during WWI. The Russian and Ottoman Empires had been warring over strategic interests in the Balkans and Caucasus for centuries.

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.