Eugene Rogan

Exactly 101 years ago, a series of breath-taking developments in European and Turkish seas put the Ottoman Empire into a war that would destroy it. Recently revealed documents correct some misconceptions about how the Turks entered World War I "Enver [Pasha] had wanted to stand back and let the Great Powers destroy one another.

The author of a major new history of the Great War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Professor Eugene Rogan, tells the Hürriyet Daily News that the effects of the conflict are still being felt in the region 100 years later.

'The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920' by Eugene Rogan (Allen Lane, 512 pages, £25)