Theodore Herzl

Zionism; Zionist Congress 1893, World Zionist Organization

Jewish National Fund

1883 first clash between Jewish settlers and Arab farmers

Arab, Palestinian

Ottoman government attitude

Oil

D'Arcy Concession, Iran 1901

Turkish Petroleum Company, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Mosul, 1918

Ottoman Empire

CUP leadership: Enver, Talat, Jamal; Caliph Mehmet V (1909-1918)

Territory as of 1914 (map)

areas of "special interest": Lebanon (France); Kuwait, Basra (Britain)

population: vast majority Muslim (Turk, Arab, Kurd)

Ottomanism policy vs. favoring Muslims or favoring Turks

World War I

Campaigns:

Eastern Front

Gallipoli

Mesopotamia

Palestine

Internal: 

Jihad

unity vs. disintegration

Armenians and the issue of genocide

Husayn-McMahon Correspondence 1915

Arab uprising 1916-1918

Syke-Picot Agreement 1916

Balfour Declaration November 1917

Allenby in Jerusalem, Dec 1917

Division of Ottoman Empire