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Cavalry General Liman von Sanders With Ottoman Officers
This image shows a German cavalry general with Ottoman officers around the time of World War I. He is barely distinguishable from the officers around him. The Ottomans and Germans were allies in World War I, but there was also a longstanding relationship between the Ottoman military and German advisors. In the early days of Ottoman military reform it was necessary to hire European military advisors to manage military modernization, as there were no Ottomans with the necessary skills and training to oversee the project. While the advisors initially hired were from several nations, particularly France, over time there developed a close relationship between the Prussian and Ottoman militaries, and German advisors predominated among the Ottoman forces.
Name:Gruppenbild Liman von Sanders mit türkischen Offizieren, u. a. Kiasim Bey
Material: Photograph
Size: 800 x 562 pixels (88 KB)
Date: ca. 1914/1918 CE
Place of Origin: Unknown
Location: Wikimedia Commons from Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)
Source and Registration#: Link to resource
(accessed April 30, 2010).
Attribution: Image provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals provided by the Digital Image Archive.
www.bundesarchiv.de (accessed August 14, 2009).
Official License: Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (accessed August 14, 2009).
A. Holly Shissler
Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago
Erin L. Glade
Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
