De facto dissolution
In 1913, defeat in the Second Balkan War brought the Young Turks (Union and Progress Party) to power.
In 1915, the core of the party organized, under the command of the Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha, a policy of deportation and massacre against the Ottoman Armenians, a policy called the Armenian Genocide causing 1,500,000 deaths according to a majority of historians, and 300,000 victims according to the current Turkish state, which refuses the term "genocide" and prefers instead to speak of massacres.
The First World War will complete its dismemberment; the Arab territories it controlled (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Arabia) were placed by decision of the League of Nations under British and French protectorate (see Sykes-Picot agreement), the Caucasus was lost.
Dissolution of right
In 1922, Marshal Mustafa Kemal Atatürk abolished the Ottoman Empire and founded in 1923 on the remaining territory, Anatolia and Eastern Thrace, modern Turkey or the Republic of Turkey, successor state of the Ottoman Empire. In 1924, he put an end to the caliphate, the last trace of imperial institutions.
Coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire.
Coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire.
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