Postcard from 1908 showing Armenian students celebrating freedom in Turkey after the introduction of the constitution that promised equal rights to all, regardless of religion or ethnic background.
Turkey’s Sheikh ul-Islam Heyri Bey reading the Jihad Fetwa declaring war on Britain France and Russia in 1914 (World war I). Germany also asked the Ottomans to lead Muslim forces in India against the British troops in order to keep them too busy to join the war in Europe.