Turning Point

Chapter 762: Turning Point

An exhilarating scene unfolded on the Near Eastern battlefield. At the height of the fighting on the front lines, trouble erupted in the Ottoman rear.

The Armenians rebelled, the Greeks rebelled, the Slavs rebelled—even the Kurds showed signs of unrest.

Those who had not rebelled simply had no one stirring them up. Otherwise, the number of ethnic groups rebelling within the Ottoman Empire would have increased by a whole lot.

The previous waves of ethnic uprisings had all been the work of the Anti-Ottoman Alliance. Everyone knew the Ottoman Empire was on its last legs; if they did not switch sides now, it would be too late.

The upper classes needed to find a way out, and naturally they had to offer a pledge of allegiance. If they did not act now to prove where they stood, how could they secure their status in the future?

If the Anti-Ottoman Alliance threw its doors wide open at this moment, there would probably even be people within the Ottoman Government switching sides.

Without a doubt, the internal turmoil accelerated the Ottoman Empire's decline.

Unlike the ethnic independence movements of the past, the rebels this time had weapons. Austrian airships had airdropped arms and ammunition to the insurgent forces.

The consequences of being a multiethnic state had erupted. Although only a minority had rebelled, being stabbed in the back at such a moment still caused the Sultan Government to lose trust in the country's ethnic minorities.

Affected by the rebellion, the ethnic tensions accumulated within the Ottoman Empire were also inflamed.

The public morale the Sultan Government had worked so hard to raise was directly cut in half, while the ethnic minorities' sense of belonging to the country plummeted.

First, the Austrian Army captured Kırşehir; then the Russians took