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Territorial disputes and demographic shifts shaped Ottoman relations with the Balkans before, during, and after the First World War. Ottoman Great War aims included recovery of territory in Thrace, Macedonia, and the Aegean Islands lost in the Balkan Wars. Wartime deportations of Greek Orthodox Christians reached their climax in the Turkish War of Independence and the population exchanges of 1922–23. The resulting Turco-Greek antagonism was one of the more enduring legacies of the Ottoman Great War.
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Notes
Ulrich Trumpener (1968) Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1914 (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 28.
Mustafa Aksakal (2008) The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 115.
Taner Akçam (2012) The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press), pp. 63–63.
For an examination of deportations and population exchanges along the southern coasts of the Sea of Marmara, see Ryan Gingeras (2009) Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 12–12.
Margaret MacMillan (2003) Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World (London: John Murray), p. 440.
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Rogan, E. (2016). World War I and the Fall of the Ottomans: Consequences for South East Europe. In: Anastasakis, O., Madden, D., Roberts, E. (eds) Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past is Never Dead. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56414-6_6
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