How Three Men Destroyed a 600-Year Empire in 15 Years

In 1908, the Ottoman Empire looked like it might finally modernise. Fifteen years later it was gone. Destroyed not by centuries of decline, but by a handful of men making catastrophically bad decisions in rapid succession. This is how it happened. Subscribe: 👉    / @thesleepyhistorianhistory   Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Narration by Benjamin Pemberton Chapters 00:00 Salonica 04:08 The Three Pashas 08:45 Mudros 12:54 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 📚 Primary Sources Eugene Rogan — The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (2015) Erik-Jan Zürcher — Turkey: A Modern History (2017) Efraim & Inari Karsh — Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923 (1999) 1914–1918 Online Encyclopedia — War Losses (Ottoman Empire/Middle East) Tessa Hofmann — The Assassination of Mehmet Talaat and the Berlin Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies (2020) #historydocumentary #turkey #ottomanempire #atatürk