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Ottoman Defence Against the ANZAC Landing
Paperback Australian Army Campaigns
By Mesut Uyar[1]
Paperback | 188 pages
ISBN10 1925275019
ISBN13 9781925275018
Publication date 31 Mar 2016
Publisher Big Sky Publishing Publication
Newport, NSW, Australia
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The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scrambled ashore. Descriptions of the Ottoman forces such as the composition of units, the men who commanded them, their weapons, capabilities and reactions to the ANZAC invasion have generally remained undocumented or described in piecemeal fashion based on secondary sources. The lack of a Turkish perspective has made it almost impossible to construct a balanced account of the events of that fateful April day.
The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing: 25 April 1915 seeks to redress this imbalance, portraying the Ottoman experience based on previously unpublished Ottoman and Turkish sources. This meticulously researched volume describes the Ottoman Army in fascinating detail from its order of battle, unit structure and composition, training and doctrine to the weapons used against the ANZACs. Using Ottoman military documents, regimental war diaries, personal accounts and memoirs, author Mesut Uyar describes the unfolding campaign, unravelling its complexity and resolving many of the questions that have dogged accounts for a century. This valuable chronicle will enhance readers' understanding of the Ottoman war machine, its strengths and weaknesses and why it proved so successful in containing the Allied invasion. Detailed maps and photographs published for the first time add clarity and portray many of the men the ANZACs referred to with grudging respect as `Johnny Turk'.
A Military History of the Ottomans : From Osman to Ataturk
Hardback Praeger Security International
By Mesut Uyar, Edward J. Erickson
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The Ottoman Army had a significant effect on the history of the modern world and particularly on that of the Middle East and Europe. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events. As the world's dominant military machine from 1300 to the mid-1700's, the Ottoman Army led the way in military institutions, organizational structures, technology, and tactics. In decline thereafter, it nevertheless remained a considerable force to be counted in the balance of power through 1918. From its nomadic origins, it underwent revolutions in military affairs as well as several transformations which enabled it to compete on favorable terms with the best of armies of the day. This study tracks the growth of the Ottoman Army as a professional institution from the perspective of the Ottomans themselves, by using previously untapped Ottoman source materials. Additionally, the impact of important commanders and the role of politics, as these affected the army, are examined.
The study concludes with the Ottoman legacy and its effect on the Republic and modern Turkish Army. This is a study survey that combines an introductory view of this subject with fresh and original reference-level information. Divided into distinct periods, Uyar and Erickson open with a brief overview of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and the military systems that shaped the early military patterns. The Ottoman army emerged forcefully in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople and became a dominant social and political force for nearly two hundred years following Mehmed's capture of the city. When the army began to show signs of decay during the mid-seventeenth century, successive Sultans actively sought to transform the institution that protected their power. The reforms and transformations that began frist in 1606successfully preserved the army until the outbreak of the Ottoman-Russian War in 1876. Though the war was brief, its impact was enormous as nationalistic and republican strains placed increasing pressure on the Sultan and his army until, finally, in 1918, those strains proved too great to overcome.
By 1923, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk emerged as the leader of a unified national state ruled by a new National Parliament. As Uyar and Erickson demonstrate, the old army of the Sultan had become the army of the Republic, symbolizing the transformation of a dying empire to the new Turkish state make clear that throughout much of its existence, the Ottoman Army was an effective fighting force with professional military institutions and organizational structures.
[1] Graduate of Turkish Military Academy in 1991. Got MA on politics and Ph.D. on international relations from Faculty of Political Sciences Istanbul University. Specialized on war studies, particularly on operations other than war. As a career officers he served at platoon leader and company and battalion commander positions in various infantry units and several tours of peace support operations duties as military observer at UN mission in Georgia and as staff officer in Afghanistan. He served as assistant professor of international relations at the Turkish Military Academy for ten years. He was also the curator of the Military Academy Archive and Museum Division for five years where he started his research about Ottoman military history. He spent one year as an instructor and academic advisor at the Peace Support Training Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently working as an associate professor of Ottoman military history at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
Books
Uyar M, 2015, The Ottoman Defence Against The Anzac Landing 25 April 1915, Australian Army History Unit,, Canberra
Uyar M; Erickson EJ, 2009, A Military History of the Ottomans From Osman to Atatürk, ABC-CLIO
Book Chapters
Uyar M, 2015, 'Peacekeeping', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press New South, Sydney, pp. 163 - 168
Uyar M, 2015, 'Ottoman strategy and war aims during the first world war', in The Purpose of the First World War: War Aims and Military Strategies, pp. 163 - 185
Uyar M, 2006, 'An American Military Observer of Turkish Independence War: Charles Wellington Furlong', in A Bridge Between Cultures: Studies on Ottoman and Republican Turkey in Memory of Ali Ihsan Bağış, Isis Press, istanbul, pp. 179 - 191, http://www.theisispress.org/book.html,2006_1
Journal articles
Uyar M, 2016, 'Who Called for a Ceasefire? Gallipoli 1915', Wartime, vol. 73, pp. 54 - 59
Uyar M; Güvenç S, 2016, 'One Battle and Two Accounts:The Turkish Brigade at Kunu-ri in November 1950', The Journal of Military History, vol. 80, pp. 1117 - 1147
Uyar M, 2016, 'Remembering the Gallipoli campaign: Turkish official military historiography, war memorials and contested ground', First World War Studies, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2016.1234965
Uyar M, 2015, 'The Ottoman Empire and the Early Modern World', Agora, vol. 50, pp. 22 - 28
Uyar M, 2013, 'Ottoman Arab officers between nationalism and loyalty during the first world war', War in History, vol. 20, pp. 526 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344513494658
Uyar M; Varoğlu AK, 2008, 'In Search of Modernity and Rationality', Armed Forces & Society, vol. 35, pp. 180 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327x07312085
Conference Papers
Uyar M, (eds.), 2016, 'Ottoman Third Corps in Crisis: Easd Pasha', in Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War, Massey University Press, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 43 - 59, presented at The Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 22 - 24 August 2014
Uyar M, 2012, 'With the Germans in Afghanistan: A Turkish Staff Officer's Experiences during the Foundation of Kabul Multi-National Brigade', in Auftrag Auslandseinsatz: Neueste Militargeschichte an der Schnittstelle von Geschictswissenschaft, Politik, Offentlichkeit und Streitkraften, Rombach Verlag, Potsdam, Germany, pp. 251 - 262, presented at 52. Internationale Tagung fur Militargeschichte, Potsdam, Germany, 26 - 28 September 2011
Uyar M, (eds.), 2008, 'The Impact of Asymmetric Warfare on the Military Profession and Structure: Lessons Learned from the Ottoman Military', in Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution: Sociological Perspectives, Emerald, Durban, South Africa, pp. 49 - 60, presented at “The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising Worldâ€, XVI ISA World Congress, Durban, South Africa, 23 - 29 July 2006, http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781848551220
Uyar M, (ed.), 2005, 'A UN Type Conflict Management: Dilemmas of Military Observer Missions in the Example of UNOMIG', in Military Missions and Their Implications Reconsidered: the Aftermath of September 11th, Elsevier, Ankara-Turkey, pp. 583 - 594, presented at ISA/RC01 Interim Conference, Ankara-Turkey, 07 - 09 July 2004
Other
Uyar M, "Crimean War, Balkan Operations" in War in the Balkans: An Enyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Greco-Ottoman War, 1897" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Kumanovo, Battle of, 1912" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Ottoman Counterinsurgency Operations in the Balkans and Crete" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Sarkoy and Bolayir, Battle of 1913" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Shipka Pass, Battles of 1877-1878" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Ottoman Defence Against the ANZAC Landing
Paperback Australian Army Campaigns
By Mesut Uyar[1]
Paperback | 188 pages
ISBN10 1925275019
ISBN13 9781925275018
Publication date 31 Mar 2016
Publisher Big Sky Publishing Publication
Newport, NSW, Australia
The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scrambled ashore. Descriptions of the Ottoman forces such as the composition of units, the men who commanded them, their weapons, capabilities and reactions to the ANZAC invasion have generally remained undocumented or described in piecemeal fashion based on secondary sources. The lack of a Turkish perspective has made it almost impossible to construct a balanced account of the events of that fateful April day. The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing: 25 April 1915 seeks to redress this imbalance, portraying the Ottoman experience based on previously unpublished Ottoman and Turkish sources. This meticulously researched volume describes the Ottoman Army in fascinating detail from its order of battle, unit structure and composition, training and doctrine to the weapons used against the ANZACs. Using Ottoman military documents, regimental war diaries, personal accounts and memoirs, author Mesut Uyar describes the unfolding campaign, unravelling its complexity and resolving many of the questions that have dogged accounts for a century. This valuable chronicle will enhance readers' understanding of the Ottoman war machine, its strengths and weaknesses and why it proved so successful in containing the Allied invasion. Detailed maps and photographs published for the first time add clarity and portray many of the men the ANZACs referred to with grudging respect as `Johnny Turk'.
A Military History of the Ottomans : From Osman to Ataturk
Hardback Praeger Security International
By Mesut Uyar, Edward J. Erickson
The Ottoman Army had a significant effect on the history of the modern world and particularly on that of the Middle East and Europe. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events. As the world's dominant military machine from 1300 to the mid-1700's, the Ottoman Army led the way in military institutions, organizational structures, technology, and tactics. In decline thereafter, it nevertheless remained a considerable force to be counted in the balance of power through 1918. From its nomadic origins, it underwent revolutions in military affairs as well as several transformations which enabled it to compete on favorable terms with the best of armies of the day. This study tracks the growth of the Ottoman Army as a professional institution from the perspective of the Ottomans themselves, by using previously untapped Ottoman source materials. Additionally, the impact of important commanders and the role of politics, as these affected the army, are examined.The study concludes with the Ottoman legacy and its effect on the Republic and modern Turkish Army. This is a study survey that combines an introductory view of this subject with fresh and original reference-level information. Divided into distinct periods, Uyar and Erickson open with a brief overview of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and the military systems that shaped the early military patterns. The Ottoman army emerged forcefully in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople and became a dominant social and political force for nearly two hundred years following Mehmed's capture of the city. When the army began to show signs of decay during the mid-seventeenth century, successive Sultans actively sought to transform the institution that protected their power. The reforms and transformations that began frist in 1606successfully preserved the army until the outbreak of the Ottoman-Russian War in 1876. Though the war was brief, its impact was enormous as nationalistic and republican strains placed increasing pressure on the Sultan and his army until, finally, in 1918, those strains proved too great to overcome.
By 1923, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk emerged as the leader of a unified national state ruled by a new National Parliament. As Uyar and Erickson demonstrate, the old army of the Sultan had become the army of the Republic, symbolizing the transformation of a dying empire to the new Turkish state make clear that throughout much of its existence, the Ottoman Army was an effective fighting force with professional military institutions and organizational structures.
[1] Graduate of Turkish Military Academy in 1991. Got MA on politics and Ph.D. on international relations from Faculty of Political Sciences Istanbul University. Specialized on war studies, particularly on operations other than war. As a career officers he served at platoon leader and company and battalion commander positions in various infantry units and several tours of peace support operations duties as military observer at UN mission in Georgia and as staff officer in Afghanistan. He served as assistant professor of international relations at the Turkish Military Academy for ten years. He was also the curator of the Military Academy Archive and Museum Division for five years where he started his research about Ottoman military history. He spent one year as an instructor and academic advisor at the Peace Support Training Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently working as an associate professor of Ottoman military history at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
Books
Uyar M, 2015, The Ottoman Defence Against The Anzac Landing 25 April 1915, Australian Army History Unit,, Canberra
Uyar M; Erickson EJ, 2009, A Military History of the Ottomans From Osman to Atatürk, ABC-CLIO
Book Chapters
Uyar M, 2015, 'Peacekeeping', in Baker D (ed.), Key Concepts in Military Ethics, UNSW Press New South, Sydney, pp. 163 - 168
Uyar M, 2015, 'Ottoman strategy and war aims during the first world war', in The Purpose of the First World War: War Aims and Military Strategies, pp. 163 - 185
Uyar M, 2006, 'An American Military Observer of Turkish Independence War: Charles Wellington Furlong', in A Bridge Between Cultures: Studies on Ottoman and Republican Turkey in Memory of Ali Ihsan Bağış, Isis Press, istanbul, pp. 179 - 191, http://www.theisispress.org/book.html,2006_1
Journal articles
Uyar M, 2016, 'Who Called for a Ceasefire? Gallipoli 1915', Wartime, vol. 73, pp. 54 - 59
Uyar M; Güvenç S, 2016, 'One Battle and Two Accounts:The Turkish Brigade at Kunu-ri in November 1950', The Journal of Military History, vol. 80, pp. 1117 - 1147
Uyar M, 2016, 'Remembering the Gallipoli campaign: Turkish official military historiography, war memorials and contested ground', First World War Studies, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2016.1234965
Uyar M, 2015, 'The Ottoman Empire and the Early Modern World', Agora, vol. 50, pp. 22 - 28
Uyar M, 2013, 'Ottoman Arab officers between nationalism and loyalty during the first world war', War in History, vol. 20, pp. 526 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344513494658
Uyar M; Varoğlu AK, 2008, 'In Search of Modernity and Rationality', Armed Forces & Society, vol. 35, pp. 180 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327x07312085
Conference Papers
Uyar M, (eds.), 2016, 'Ottoman Third Corps in Crisis: Easd Pasha', in Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War, Massey University Press, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 43 - 59, presented at The Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 22 - 24 August 2014
Uyar M, 2012, 'With the Germans in Afghanistan: A Turkish Staff Officer's Experiences during the Foundation of Kabul Multi-National Brigade', in Auftrag Auslandseinsatz: Neueste Militargeschichte an der Schnittstelle von Geschictswissenschaft, Politik, Offentlichkeit und Streitkraften, Rombach Verlag, Potsdam, Germany, pp. 251 - 262, presented at 52. Internationale Tagung fur Militargeschichte, Potsdam, Germany, 26 - 28 September 2011
Uyar M, (eds.), 2008, 'The Impact of Asymmetric Warfare on the Military Profession and Structure: Lessons Learned from the Ottoman Military', in Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution: Sociological Perspectives, Emerald, Durban, South Africa, pp. 49 - 60, presented at “The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising Worldâ€, XVI ISA World Congress, Durban, South Africa, 23 - 29 July 2006, http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781848551220
Uyar M, (ed.), 2005, 'A UN Type Conflict Management: Dilemmas of Military Observer Missions in the Example of UNOMIG', in Military Missions and Their Implications Reconsidered: the Aftermath of September 11th, Elsevier, Ankara-Turkey, pp. 583 - 594, presented at ISA/RC01 Interim Conference, Ankara-Turkey, 07 - 09 July 2004
Other
Uyar M, "Crimean War, Balkan Operations" in War in the Balkans: An Enyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Greco-Ottoman War, 1897" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Kumanovo, Battle of, 1912" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Ottoman Counterinsurgency Operations in the Balkans and Crete" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Sarkoy and Bolayir, Battle of 1913" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
Uyar M, "Shipka Pass, Battles of 1877-1878" in War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History
