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The Byzantine & Ottoman Empires: Lecture 12 of 12.
The Fall of the Empire & the Rise of the Republic. The Ottoman sultan's entrance into WWI on the side of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia brought about the end of the empire. But the death blow came from within. An Ottoman military officer, Kemal Mustafa Ataturk, dissolved the empire and nurtured the birth of the Republic of Turkey.
