The Impact Of The Khilafat Movement

The Ottoman Empire was an empire that came to its rise during the year 1299, the empire was a strong follower of the Islamic religion, they were also one of the biggest reasons for the spreading of the religion. The Holy crusades ended during the year 1291, this was just a few years before the Ottoman empire was founded. The Religious wars were far from finished though, religions would keep on fighting for their beliefs for a long time, even until the current day. The Ottoman Empire did not have as much discrimination towards other religions though, they instead invited them through a system called Millet.

The Ottoman Empire at the time was near collapsing and continued to to fuel instability among subject nationalities in Europe and ambitions of Russia and Austria who would only profit from the fall. This goes to show the destabilization that touched all of Europe, leading into the instability of the continent before World War

The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state which was created in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to add in numerous places in what's currently present-day Europe to and yes it ultimately became one of probably the largest, longest-lasting and powerful most empires in the story of the globe. During the peak of its, the Ottoman Empire included the aspects of Parts, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, and Turkey of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state which was created in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to add in numerous places in what's currently present-day Europe to and yes it ultimately became one of probably the largest, longest-lasting and powerful most empires in the story of the

The Ottoman Turks emerged on the periphery of the Byzantine Empire and the Saljuk Turks. Under a Turkish Muslim warrior named Osman, raids were conducted in western Anatolia on Byzantine settlements and a vast number of Turks were united under his banner. Those Turks who flocked to Osman's banner and followed him into the history books came to be called the Ottomans. The word Ottoman, fits these Turks well as it roughly translates from Turkish as "those associated with Oman."

The Ottoman had several scenes of decline and each one had marked their history and are linked with it so I will explain each one. The armistice of 1918 ended the fighting between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies but didn´t bring stability or peace to the region. The British controlled Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia.

The Young Turks sought to kill all Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire, aiming to create an Armenian free country. Turkish leaders stated that “all Armenians must die; we will wipe them out and rid this Empire of them.” They referred to what would happen as a “Turkification campaign” and used World War one to hide what they were doing.

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, as an ally to Germany . They joined the Central powers, consisting of Germany and Austria-Hungary, fighting against the Allied powers; Russia, Britain and France. The Turks ruled over the Ottoman empire and were ruthless towards the Armenians. Turks felt that the Armenians were second class citizens because they were not Muslim. The Armenians were deprived of having government jobs and had to pay higher taxes.

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the Ottoman Governments eradication of the Armenians within what is now known as Turkey. Ottoman authorities arrested deported and eventually murdered Armenian subjects, as well as targeting men, women and Christian ethnic groups (Kévorkian, 2011). World War I was a key factor when looking at the Armenian Genocide; in 1914 the Turks entered the war on the same side of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany. Government and military leadership feared the revolt of the Armenians; they

After World War I, the Ottoman Empire, lost their land to the Allied Powers. The British occupied the piece of land called Ottoman Syria after defeating the forces of the Turks in 1917. This land that

Britain, France and the Russians declared war on the Ottoman Empire on the 5th of November 1914, Turkish forces operating from Palestine were restricted by water availability to within 60 kilometres of the Mediterranean coast. However on the third

During World War One Britain had fought against the Ottoman Empire and had captured Bagdad

The evets in WWI created an urgent need to create a Turkish republic because of the intensifying threat Britain posed towards the Ottoman Empire. For instance, Britain declared Egypt as a protectorate, but part of Egypt use to be under the Ottoman rule. Not only did losing Egypt weaken the Ottoman Empire but the British were also successful in encouraging the local governor of Mecca to declare Arabia’s independence from the Ottoman rule. The Ottomans also lost Palestine to the British as they suffered from more than 300,000 casualties from WWI. As a consequence, ethnic Turks began to support the Turkish republic because it was seen as a solution to the

Starting in the 16th century the ottoman empire after long struggles and achievements of taking over and ruling Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, And Romania in the balkans, over all the islands in the eastern mediterranean, and lastly over what is today the middle east.latter on during the first world war Ataturk took a quest, making a sacrifice which almost coast him to lose his own life in the most symbolic war in Gallipoli where he was shot in the heart but saved by his pocket watch who took the shot. His goals and determination was to have Turkey gain self determination and national independence. Finally after world war 1 the Sultan wanted to make ataturk a puppet ruler and share the land of the empire and distribute it among the

The British worked with the Al Sa’ud family and the Wahhabis in hopes to create a strong central government in Arabia that would serve its interests. The British also wanted to further weaken the Ottoman Empire by wrestling Mecca and Medina away from its control.

During the mid to late 1800’s, Turkey lost many pieces of land by losing the war in 1829, and the Russo-Turkish Wars. Turkey lost Algeria and Tunisia to France, and Cyprus and Egypt to the United Kingdom. However, Cyprus and Egypt remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1914. During the 1890’s a group of students and military officers secretly banded together and opposed Sultan Abdülhamit’s strict policies. The most influential group of these people was the Committee of Union and Progress. In 1908, members of this group revolted against Abdülhamit in order to force him to reinstate a constitutional government. This group made Abdülhamit surrender his throne in 1909. In 1914, the newly reinstated Ottoman Empire joined World War I on the side of the Central Powers. In 1915, the Allies tried to gain control of the