Tırablusgarp Cephesi Hatıraları

Tirablus Tripolitania Western Tripolitania is the name of today's Libya in Ottoman historical literature.

Tirablusgarp was conquered by the great Turkish sailor Turgut Reis in 1551 and annexed to the Ottoman lands (His tomb is in Tripolitania).

The region was ruled by a Turkish dynasty called Karamanli for a long time. The Ottoman state could not intervene in the war that started with the Italian attack in 1911 and Turkish officers who went to the region through secret channels organized the local population and rooted out the Italians.

Turkish officers were forced to leave Tripolitania with the outbreak of the Balkan War and the region was ceded to the Italians with the Ouchy Agreement signed in 1912.

Thus, the Ottoman Empire lost its last land in Africa. Turkish officers who were sent to the region again in the First World War re-established the local population. They organized and inflicted great damage and losses on the Italians.

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