>Enver Pasha assumed command of the Ottoman forces arrayed against the Russians in the Caucasus theatre. He wanted to encircle the Russians, force them out of Ottoman territory, and take back Kars and Batumi, which had been ceded after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Enver thought of himself as a great military leader, while the German military adviser, Liman von Sanders, thought of him as incompetent.[55] Enver ordered a complex attack on the Russians, placed himself in personal control of the Third Army, and was utterly defeated at the Battle of Sarikamish in December 1914 – January 1915. His strategy seemed feasible on paper, but he had ignored external conditions, such as the terrain and the weather. Enver's army (118,000 men) was defeated by the Russian force (80,000 men), and in the subsequent retreat, tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers died. This was the single worst Ottoman defeat of World War I. On his return to Constantinople, Enver Pasha blamed his failure on his Armenian soldiers, although in January 1915, an Armenian named Hovannes had saved his life during a battle by carrying Enver through battle lines on his back.[56] Nonetheless, Enver Pasha later initiated the deportations and sporadic massacres of Western Armenians, culminating in the Armenian genocide.
>Liman von Sanders, thought of him as incompetent This is the guy that all of his officers abandoned and considered the most incompetent general in the entire German military. And yeah Enver was worse than him somehow, he actually thought he was the next Napolion. However the only reason he got his position was marrying the sultans granddaughter. No wonder Atatürk sent him away later.
Sebastian Moore
KARA BOGA got diluted over time
Camden Hill
If it weren't for him there would be at least 10 million more armenians in the world today. I consider him a hero for this alone
Nathaniel Hall
The Balkan Turks were schizos who had severe identity crisis because they were 0% turkish by blood and compensated that by adopting extreme pan turkic ideology.
Levi Wright
massive cope, It's always muh Balkan Turks for Armenians, kek.
Justin Richardson
>they were 0% turkish by blood Wrong. Ottomans settled tribes from anatolia to balkans after conquering it
Camden White
Most went to Albania and Macedonia not Bosnia
Joseph Johnson
Lol, is that why Balkan Turks look like pic related.
nigga, I honestly don't get your obsessions with Balkan Turks, you might come from some Eastern place that mixed with arabs, but yes some Turks do look like that, quit the cope. I honestly experienced the inferiority complex from Kurds and some Eastern Turks several times this summer in Antalya.
Christian Parker
Enver was Albanian, talat was Bulgarian, and Cemal was greek
The sad part is that most of those Ottoman casualties were not even roaches, they were Levantines, Iraqis, and Kurds.
Brandon Young
My grandfather is pomak too What's your point
William Gray
>I honestly experienced the inferiority complex from Kurds and some Eastern Turks several times this summer in Antalya. Can you describe your experiences? I'm curious.
Jeremiah Harris
you have nothing to do with levantines or iraqis. saudis are pajeet-tier brownoids.
Logan Anderson
Yes
Josiah Jenkins
It's usually just them treating you different or outright being suprised because you're not like them, even tho they have nothing to do with city dwellers and speak broken Turkish and are just there as "keko" slavpussy hunters. They do the same thing to Western Aegean Turks, it's just inferiority complex or something else.
dumb retard read a history book about Turks in Balkans, you don't become a Turk suddenly, it's paternally descended, all of those you mentioned have partial or full Turk descent.
