Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. On November 1, 1922, the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished by the Turkish Grand National Assembly and Sultan Mehmed VI departed the country. This allowed the Turkish nationalist government in Ankara to become the sole governing entity in the nation. The Ottoman Empire, under Mehmed V and the Young Turks, had sided with the Central Powers during World War I. Despite initial successes against British Commonwealth troops, the tide turned against the declining empire and its allies, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Ottoman Empire lost much territory in both World War I and the preceding Balkan Wars, completing its steady decline, which had begun in 1699. By 1918, when the Ottoman Empire left the war, it had lost much of its territory, with the exception of the Ottoman homeland of Turkey.