Interestingly Ottoman side uses استانبول (*İstanbul*) while it was officially called قسطنطينيه (*Qostantiniye*).
I read Peter Hopkirk’s *On Secret Service East of Constantinople*, which was all about the shadow war between the Entente and Central Powers in the Near and Middle East. Absolutely fascinating.
German agents spread rumours from India to Turkey that the Kaiser had converted to Islam and was to pledge fealty to the Caliph (i.e. the Sultan) and would bring about the end of Christianity. Of course, all bollocks, but designed to spur rebellions amongst the Islamic subject peoples of the British, French and Russian Empires.
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Interestingly Ottoman side uses استانبول (*İstanbul*) while it was officially called قسطنطينيه (*Qostantiniye*).
I read Peter Hopkirk’s *On Secret Service East of Constantinople*, which was all about the shadow war between the Entente and Central Powers in the Near and Middle East. Absolutely fascinating.
German agents spread rumours from India to Turkey that the Kaiser had converted to Islam and was to pledge fealty to the Caliph (i.e. the Sultan) and would bring about the end of Christianity. Of course, all bollocks, but designed to spur rebellions amongst the Islamic subject peoples of the British, French and Russian Empires.
Wilhelm was a very odd man.