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The Ottoman Empire in World War One - the fights for the Suez Canal, Gaza, Jerusalem and Arabia between the British and Turks
Picture: General Allenby enters Jerusalem
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| 0:34.4 | Welcome to A History of Europe, the interwar years. |
| 0:43.6 | This is part one of the Turkish National Struggle, 1919 to 1922. |
| 0:51.8 | Part one is entitled the Ottoman Empire and World War I. |
| 1:03.6 | In previous episodes, I have talked about how World War I did not finish neatly in November 1918 when the Germans and allies agreed |
| 1:13.7 | the armistice. In fact, intense fighting continued across most of Eastern Europe and also, |
| 1:21.8 | as we're talking about today, within the collapsing Ottoman Empire. |
| 1:33.3 | The Turkish National Struggle is the name of a series of conflicts which spun out from the First World War and lasted until 1922. |
| 1:39.3 | The battles and other events of this war determine the fate of the newborn Turkish Republic. |
| 1:45.6 | A large part of this was the Greco-Turkish War, a war between Greeks and Turkish nationalists. |
| 1:52.0 | But it wasn't just Greeks who the Turks fought, but several others, including Russians, Armenians, and French. |
| 2:02.3 | The conflict is also sometimes referred to as the Turkish War of Independence, |
| 2:07.8 | but to me seems not the best description as the Turks were not trying to achieve independence |
| 2:12.7 | from the Ottoman Empire, which they already controlled. |
| 2:16.7 | However, it's called it was very important in history, |
| 2:19.7 | not just for the tens of thousands of casualties, but because of the resulting massive displacement |
| 2:24.8 | of peoples, especially Greeks and Turks, and also for determining the final borders |
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