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Before...                                    An Ottoman administrator, Mehmet Celal Bey (1863-1926), noted in 1917 that the Ottoman Empire was unable to compete, “in the battles of this world,” in the absence of reliable economic statistics: “We are as he who gathers firewood in the dark.”

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Before...                                    An Ottoman administrator, Mehmet Celal Bey (1863-1926), noted in 1917 that the Ottoman Empire was unable to compete, “in the battles of this world,” in the absence of reliable economic statistics: “We are as he who gathers firewood in the dark.”

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Economy in shambles, the ottoman empire was also in extreme dept.

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The Ottoman Empire was already close to falling before the war. It was forced to break apart into mandates once they lost. Britain controlled three of these mandates, Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan. France gained the other two, Lebanon and Syria. The Ottoman Empire only retained the land of modern day Turkey.

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Balkan Groups struggled to break free from the Ottoman Turks, other had succeeded in breaking away from their Turkish rulers. The people that did break away started new new nations like Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.

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The Ottoman Empire was a Monarchy an was ruled by Mehmed V. He was the supreme ruler and had complete control over the land, officials and the people.

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After WWI, the ottoman empire split (mainly) into The country Turkey. Turkey is a  Presidential Republic. This means they are run by a president that is elected and hold executive powers to issue executive decrees, appoint judges and heads of state institutions.

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Before and during the war, the Ottomans had an alliance with the Germans and Austria-Hungary. After the war, they Turned into Turkey.

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The political change of the Ottoman empire was good in the end because in staid of them being ruled by a monarchy, they could vote and choose who ran the country

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The Ottoman Empire and other signed a peace treaty in 1919 and 1920. The Ottoman Turks were forced to give up almost all of their former empire. Then the government fell and it was divided into several states and the citizens weren't too happy about this.

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The Ottoman Empire was in a really bad situation after the war... In the conflict that followed, the Turkish War of Independence, nationalist forces proved adept at Anatolia’s defense, despite having lost their capital city, along with most of the country’s factories and its treasury.

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Ottoman Empire at war, 2 Sept. 2014, nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire/at-war.

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