Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for almost the entire duration of WW1. From the 14th Century to the 20th Century, the Ottoman Empire, centred in modern-day Turkey ...

The story of Ikaria’s independence from Ottoman rule is part of the empire’s troubles before WWI. But remarkably, this remote Ottoman possession achieved independence with almost no direct ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established ... For more information about the history of World War I, visit The National WWI Museum and Memorial. More from Military & Defense ...

A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk. Before being pitted against each other in WWI, bad blood between ... soldiers fighting for the Russian Empire died in the conflict, along with ...

and letters of Aussie soldiers who were in the front line fighting in Palestine during the First World War against the Ottoman Empire. This interview is in Hebrew.