Talk:German–Ottoman alliance

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Turkey as a synonym for Ottoman Empire

Before anyone who thinks that Ottoman Empire and Turkey can not be used interchangeably and wishes to remove the word Turkey, please consider this:

It was and is quite common for the name Turkey to be used in English as an alternative name for the Ottoman Empire. The secret treaty used as a source for this article does so (Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 2 August, 1914) "In case of war, Germany will leave her military mission at the disposal of Turkey". But in case anyone quibbles that this is a mistake in translation here is another source originally in English http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Affirmation.160/current_category.7/affirmation_detail.html " French Foreign Office requests following notice be given Turkish Government. Quote. May 24th"

--Philip Baird Shearer 10:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That does not matter; we must use the most accurate phrase. Furthermore, it certainly is not "quite common" today, though it may have been then. Quotations are a different matter, of course. Otherwise we may as well call the article "Turkish-German Alliance". --Adoniscik^{(t, c)} 02:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Central Powers

First of all sorry for my bad English.

I think the following sentence is not right:

"To keep the Ottoman Empire from joining the Triple Entente, Germany encouraged Romania and Bulgaria to enter the Central Powers."

Romania did't enter the Central Powers, Bulgaria entered in 1915, one year after the Ottoman Empire did so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.177.111.9 (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, better late than never I guess. It is referenced but not essential to the main point of the article, so I will start a question about it here in a new section Elinruby (talk) 03:32, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question

To keep the Ottoman Empire from joining the Triple Entente, Germany encouraged Romania and Bulgaria to join the Central Powers.^[1]

see question in previous section, please verify. Elinruby (talk) 03:33, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hew Strachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms. Vol. 1 (2003) pp 644-93.

[1] Hew Strachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms. Vol. 1 (2003) pp 644-93.

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