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The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan
1912
Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya
1912
An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia
1912
By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey
1912
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkan
1913
The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey
1913
The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War
1913
A coup led by Enver Pasha brings the Young Turks to power in Istanbul
1914
August 2 - Germany and the Ottoman empire sign a secret treaty of alliance
1914
October 29 - Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side
1914
November 2 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
1914
November 5 - Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
1915
January - Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea
1915
March 18 - British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them
1915
April 25 - British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
1915
From May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands
1915
from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon
1915
December - Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign
1918
October 30 - an armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros
1919
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey
1920
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly
1920
August - a punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
1920
August 10 - the sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government
1922
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey
1922
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
1923
The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies
1923
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital
The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan
1912
Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya
1912
An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia
1912
By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey
1912
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkan
1913
The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey
1913
The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War
1913
A coup led by Enver Pasha brings the Young Turks to power in Istanbul
1914
August 2 - Germany and the Ottoman empire sign a secret treaty of alliance
1914
October 29 - Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side
1914
November 2 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
1914
November 5 - Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
1915
January - Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea
1915
March 18 - British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them
1915
April 25 - British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
1915
From May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands
1915
from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon
1915
December - Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign
1918
October 30 - an armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros
1919
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey
1920
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly
1920
August - a punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
1920
August 10 - the sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government
1922
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey
1922
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
1923
The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies
1923
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital
Excerpt from the Time Line of Turkey. Source: History World