Compare the situation in Turkey and Iran at the beginning of the 20th century.

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1. Both states were backward and agrarian, they were much inferior to the European countries even of the second echelon like Austria-Hungary and Italy.

2. A rather weak army. She could lose any war, for example, Turkey lost in 1911-1914 the wars with Italy for Libya and the Balkans.

3. Foreign policy was based on maneuvering. They had no permanent allies. Turkey was largely dependent on Germany, which supplied weapons there and built a railway from Berlin to Baghdad.

4. Both countries experienced bourgeois revolutions, which led to the appearance of a constitution in them – Turkey in 1908, and in Iran from 1905 to 1911.

The differences are:

1. Iran was mainly inhabited by Shiites. The possessions of Turkey are Sunnis, as well as the Armenian minority influenced the economy.

2. Turkey had problems in the Balkans and lost a number of territories. Iran by 1911 was simply divided into spheres of influence between England and Russia.



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