Italo-Turkish War
The Italo-Turkish War (or " Guerra di Libia" Italian ) is a war which opposed the forces of the Royaume of Italy and of the Ottoman Empire from September 28th, 1911 to October 18th, 1912, for the conquest of the Tripolitaine and the Cyrénaïque.
The ambitions imperialists and colonialists of the Italy pushed it with going to conquer the Tripolitaine and the Cyrénaïque (currently these two provinces form the Libya) as well as the islands of the Dodécanèse (including Rhodos), an archipelago of Greek language located at the south of the Aegean Sea. These territories were integrated into the Italian colonial Empire.
During this war, the Ottoman Empire was seriously handicapped: its army did not have a modern equipment, indeed its fleet was developed little.
It could not thus send sufficient troops to protect from the territories moved away as large as the Tripolitaine.
This war, rather modest, constituted nevertheless a crucial step towards the First World War, because it awoke a wild nationalism with the Balkans, the explosives magazine of Europe. Indeed, by seeing the facility with which the Italy had beaten the Ottoman Empire, completely disorganized, the members of the Balkan Ligue attacked the Othoman right before the end of the italo-Turkish War, in what is called the First war Balkan.
The italo-Turkish War was the theater many technological advancements which were going to prove reliable a few years later during the First World War, in particular the Aviation. Indeed, on October 23rd, 1911, an Italian pilot flew over the Turkish lines for a strategic mission and on November 1st the first bomb launched of the air by a plane fell on the Turkish troops in Libya and one saw the first plane shot down with the combat on September 10th, 1912, it acted of a monoplane Nieuport gone down by a battery from machine-guns.
The war ended in the catch of Tripoli by the Italian Armée. October 18th, 1912 was signed the Traité of Ouchy which yielded to Italy the provinces Tripolitaine, Cyrénaïque and Dodécanèses. The Othomans had considerable losses and had to deal with both Guerres of Balkans immediately afterwards, which reflect fine with the last Othoman territories in Europe (except Istanbul and its area).
The Italian troops were ordered by Carlo Caneva. They added up 100 000 men and counted 6 000 victims (deaths and wounded) during the war. The Othoman troops was ordered by Ismail Enver. They added up 25 000 men and counted 14 000 victims (deaths) during the war. ----
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