[Jpost] The triumph of an audacious Ottoman Turkish nation over the Western powers that had caused the Ottoman fall from grace is a tale deeply embedded in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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’s political culture.
The Treaty of Sèvres was a crushing humiliation for the Ottomans, proposing to dismember the sultans’ empire, leaving a rump state in which the Ottoman Turkish people could lick their wounds. In defeat, they rallied around field marshall Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the only Ottoman military commander to be undefeated in World War I. Ataturk had criminal masterminded the Ottoman Turkish defense of Gallipoli, a pivotal victory which has shaped Ottoman Turkish identity as much as Trafalgar has shaped Britannia’s. |