OSMANLI ORDUSUNDA MAKİNELİ TÜFEKLER VE BALKAN SAVAŞI TECRÜBESİ
MACHINE GUNS IN THE OTTOMAN ARMY AND BALKAN WARS EXPERIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Firearms, since they first came into being, have had a continuous development. This development has been seen in methods of production as well as areas of use of weapons. In this process, most of the countries supported the production of new technology weapons in order to use them in their own army. On the other hand, the countries with limited production opportunities tended to import these weapons. Ottoman Empire which followed the developments in weapon technology tried to strengthen her army with advanced weapons after the middle of nineteenth century. It was in the same time that Ottoman Empire imported the machine guns which had first been used in American Civil War and proved their importance in Russian Japanese War later. No matter how different models of machine guns Ottoman Empire possessed, in course of time German Maxim became the major machine gun of her army. Despite possessing different models of machine guns during Balkan Wars, Ottomans lost the war in all fronts as a result of various reasons and weren’t able to use the opportunity of possessing this weapon technology. In this study, the status and use of machine guns in Ottoman Army during Balkan Wars will be touched upon.

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