THE BALKAN WARS: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSEQUENCES
BALKAN SAVAŞLARI VE SONUÇLARI ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Author : Yaşar ARSLANYÜREK
Number of pages : 99-113

Abstract

As of early the first decade of the 20th century, the Western European model of nationalism began to challenge the Ottoman arrangement of cultural management in the Balkans. The Ottoman Empire's attempts to prevent the spread of the Western European model of nationalism in region were frustrated and this process continued with the outbreak of the Balkan Wars. In fact, the Ottomans were probably unaware of the seriousness of the situation in Balkans. Moreover, the Ottomans couldn't predict that the Balkan nations would unite against them by making various alliances but in the end the Ottoman State was forced to declare war on the Balkan League. The developments that led to the war did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire. Each of them unofficially took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area against the Ottoman State. As a resut, the first Balkan war was resulted in defeat of Ottoman Empie. But although the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, the Balkan states were dissatisfied with the outcome of the war. This situation led to new conflicts, in particular the second Balkan war and the Ottoman Empire took advantage of the situation to regain some lost territories from the previous war. From this perspective, the main purpose of this article is to assess and investigate the Balkan Wars from a different perspective and reveal the factors that played role in the loss of these wars.

Keywords

Ottoman Empire, Balkans, war, rebellion, alliance.

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