Ottoman Empire

In 1919, after the Ottomans had surrendered, Soviet Russia announced that Red Army commander Leon Trotsky was going to visit the now rapidly crumbling empire, this event was enough to kick start a rebellion, Leon sent a letter back to Russian leader Lenin recommending soviet backing in the new war, Trotsky removed forces from the Caucasus to fight in Turkey. In August 1919 the Turkish Nationalist Army attacked several French outposts in French Anatolia and the death of about 20 French troops led France to secretly support the Ottoman Empire in their efforts. French delegates to the supreme war council also convinced Italian support in the war. France’s condition for supporting the Ottoman Empire was international access through the Dardanelles to allow access to French Anatolia.

At the end of the civil war in January 1920 the Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI used executive power to make him a dictator in the Empire to weed out the revolutionaries, this would create an underlying problem for the people of the Empire, but the Empire still had the support of the Army and possibly France and Italy, so the people had to live their lives under a dictatorship.