Organization
Ottoman Empire
Empire ruled from Constantinople; it entered the First World War in November 1914 on the side of the Central Powers.
- 191524 scenes
- Decrees20 scenes
- One Land31 scenes
- Who is behind the Ottoman Empire?2 links
- How are the Ottoman Empire and … connected?
- headed by Bayezid II (Sultan) 1481–1512
Connections 12
headed by
- Bayezid II 1481–1512 Sultan Scholarship & press 1
intervened in
- First World War 31 Oct 1914 Primary record 2
led by
- Committee of Union and Progress 23 Jan 1913 Scholarship & press 3
involved in
- Allied warning of 24 May 1915 the government it was addressed to; its grand vizier answered that it resented the interference Primary record 45
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 the state whose officials carried out the deportations Scholarship & press 3
- Arrests of 24 April 1915 arrested the leaders Scholarship & press 3
- Ottoman welcome of Spanish exiles, 1492 onward Scholarship & press 16
part of
- First World War Nov 1914 Scholarship & press 3
includes
- Ottoman court-martial of 1919 1919 Primary record 7
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Palestine (region)
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Ottoman rule ended during the First World War.
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Palestine (region)
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Population as the Peel Commission reckoned it for 1919.
headquartered in
Timeline 5 dates
- 1481–1512 Bayezid II head of Ottoman Empire
- 23 Jan 1913 Committee of Union and Progress leads Ottoman Empire
- 31 Oct 1914 Ottoman Empire intervened in First World War
- Nov 1914 Ottoman Empire part of First World War
- 1919 Ottoman court-martial of 1919 part of Ottoman Empire
Proof 7 sources
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Bayazid II (Encyclopaedia Judaica), Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com.
Scholarship & press
sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512), son and successor of Sultan Mehmet ii, conqueror of Constantinople.
Following the expulsion from Spain, great numbers of Jews streamed into the Ottoman Empire and settled in various towns of the Balkans and Anatolia.
Nevertheless, according to the same source, Bayazid was a devout Muslim and was responsible for certain cases of forced conversion of Jews to Islam.
He was also the only sultan to enforce the prohibition against building new synagogues.
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Palestine Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5479), His Majesty's Stationery Office, via UN Question of Palestine archive, 1937.
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the Ottoman Empire entered the War.
In 1517 it was conquered, with Syria and Egypt, by the Ottoman Turks: and in the hands of the Ottoman Sultans at Constantinople it remained, except for the few months of Napoleon’s invasion and the few years of Mohammed Ali’s occupation, till the World War of 1914.
the vast majority of the population was Arab. It was those half million Arabs, with a small minority of 65,000 Jews, who had been removed from Turkish rule
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The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
Following several years of political upheaval, CUP leaders seized dictatorial power in a coup on January 23, 1913.
Taking orders from the central government in Constantinople, regional officials implemented mass shootings and deportations, assisted by local civilians.
Ottoman authorities arrested 240 Armenian leaders in Constantinople on April 24, 1915, and deported them east.
The Ottoman Empire formally entered the war in November 1914 on the side of the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary)
In July 1908, a faction that called itself the Young Turks seized power in Constantinople (the Ottoman capitol).
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1398: the Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State, 28 May 1915, transmitting the Allied note of 24 May, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 28 May 1915.
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In view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization, the Allied governments announce publicly to the Sublime Porte that they will hold personally responsible [for] these crimes all members of the Ottoman Government and those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1399: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 18 June 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 18 Jun 1915.
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Grand Vizier who expressed regret at being held personally responsible and resentment at attempted interference by foreign governments with the sovereign rights of the Turkish Government over their Armenian subjects.
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Jews, Expulsion of (Spain; Portugal), Encyclopedia.com (Gale).
Scholarship & press
The economic costs to Spain of the expulsion, once thought to be significant, now seem to have been relatively minor.
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Verdict ("Kararname") of the Turkish Military Tribunal, 5 July 1919, Armenian National Institute (English translation by Haigazn K. Kazarian, Armenian Review, 1971), 5 Jul 1919.
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the court martial conducted by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1919
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