Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late
October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear?
Were its leaders 'simple-minded, ' 'below-average' individuals, as
the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others
have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister
Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the
Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously
untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic
study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that
responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was
paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that
the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way
out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities,
opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire
and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today.
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