Birth of Modern Turkey

by Handan Nezir-Akmeşe

The guide and mentor to the Ottoman military was Imperial Germany as the military developed its version of the Prussian 'School of Empire' - a set of ideas and practices which in the eyes of the officer corps saw the military as the embodiment of the Ottoman Turkish nation state. The military had intervened decisively in the 1908 Constitutional Revolution and were vital in bringing the Ottoman Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850437971
• ISBN13: 9781850437970
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"