111 years after the Armenian Genocide, we provide context around the turbulent years that lead up to the massacres and the subsuquent fall of the Ottoman Empire. 

In this episode, historian Professor Adrian Jones and political scientist Dr Tezcan Gümüş dismantle the narrative of the "Sick Man of Europe" to explore the empire's desperate gamble on the world stage at the start of the 20th Century.

We trace the three pivotal coups that shifted its destiny and examine why a triumvirate of military leaders sided with Imperial Germany in World War One, a decision leading to the empire’s dramatic downfall and the Armenian Genocide, an event deeply contested in Turkey today.

We analyse why the Battle of Gallipoli became a defining moment in modern Turkish history and explore the internal transformations that reshaped Ottoman society from within. Along the way, we meet the key protagonists, including an autocratic, anti-reform Sultan and the visionary Pashas who called themselves the Young Turks.

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