Arming the Sultan : German arms trade and personal diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire before World War I - Yorulmaz, Naci (London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2014)
The German expansionist wave and the political economy of German style of war business in the Ottoman Empire (1880-98) --German military advisers : businessmen in uniform --Arms orders and contracts : the first fruits of personal diplomacy --Kaiser Wilhelm II and the political economy of personal diplomacy (1898-1914) --Sultan Abdülhamid II and his bureaucrats (1876-1909) --The power shift and its consequences (1908-14).
Abstract : Focusing on the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid between 1876 and 1909, the book explores the determining factors that influenced the development of the Ottoman armaments market.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-341) and index.
Keywords: Arms transfers -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century; Turkey -- Foreign economic relations -- Germany; Germany -- Foreign economic relations -- Turkey