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Why did the Ottoman empire implode?
Ryan Gingeras looks at why one of world history’s greatest powers collapsed a century ago
Defeat in the First World War dealt the Ottoman empire a terrible blow, but it wasn’t terminal. Ryan Gingeras tells Spencer Mizen that it was what happened next – between 1918 and 1922 – that condemned the empire to its fate.
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Ryan Gingeras is the author of The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire (Allen Lane, 2022)
