00:00In addition to this, Britain was given control over the Hejaz region, which was extremely important to the Muslims around the world, and so the Muslims were very angry about this.
00:12However, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his Turkish Nationalist Army fought against the British and other foreign powers to win back control over these territories, and by 1922 the Turkish Nationalists had won.
00:29And so then the Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923, which officially ended the Ottoman-British War, and in this treaty, all the foreign powers recognised the new Turkish Republic, which replaced the Ottoman Empire.
00:45But why did the Ottoman Empire fall apart at this point in time?
00:49Well, there were two reasons for this, the first one being the Ottoman military.
00:54As we mentioned earlier,