Abstract:

Course of the relations between the British and the Ottoman Empire affected the future of extremely large areas including The Balkans, Anatolia and the Arab territories. Intersection of the mutual interests of the two states throughout the 19th century allowed them to continue the relations at a certain stable level. But since the last quarter of the same century the relations between the Ottoman Empire and Britain started to deteriorate. In addition to developments in European politics, with some political events arising from Ottoman’s own internal dynamics, the relations between the two states had become an area of conflicting interests over time. The British and the Ottoman Empire’s fighting each other during the world war meant that so called conflict of interests reached its peak in 1914. At the end of the war while Committee of Union and Progress could not achieve any of war aims, the Ottoman Empire was even in worse situation than the case before the war. On the other hand, British gained a perfect victory in the war and achieved almost all of its aims successfully.

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