"World War Profiles: The great war & Ottoman empire"

 

 

 Elif Kaya (Regina Lavariega)

 

 November 1st, 1914

Hello, good evening, I'm Elif Kaya I am a lieutenant of the Ottoman empire regime, I was born in the beautiful city called Istanbul that is the capital and for centuries is home to the largest Ottoman heritage anywhere in the world. I was born on the 4th of September, 1895, which means that I'm 19. I come from a military family, my father was a captain in the Ottoman army, he trained me as a child. I may not be a captain, but I look forward to it. My family is not that big, it just consists of my mother, my father and 3 younger siblings, I have, thanks to my father and his work we never faced poverty or hunger when we were younger. While I grew up I loved baking, even though I never told anybody I look into when this all conflict is concluded I can get back home and bake for my family. 

Currently, my country is looking into gaining more territory joining in the side of the Central powers. Also, my country joined the war thanks to the destruction of a Russian gunboat in October. I am annoyed by this so as my father, but will follow our leader rules and hope for the best of this beautiful Nation. We are also preparing supplies for the war, we hope this conflict will resolve quickly like other conflicts that have happened before and don't turn into a massive global war. What my father is doing to me right now has trained me 24/7 every day I work so hard, lifting weights, doing a lot of pushups and so much more exercise, also he started to make my meals full of protein. 

 

I think this war will have a bad repercussion because the thing in Europe isn't looking that good, there is a lot of hidden messages and leaders are making excises, to attack each other just because of the repetition of colonies and because of precise conflicts.

  

October 30, 1918,

 

Some time ago I wrote in this document, and well where to start, the whole mass of information about this event. Today a British battleship anchored in the port of Madras on the Aegean island of Lemnos, to sign an armistice with my nation to stop the participation in the great war, being honest, it was the best decision my leader has made because our situation was getting miserable every time we continued in this train wreck of the situation. Our population has been assassinated, our economy is so poor and miserable.

 I saw things I never wanted to see. How people started something magnificent such as technology and used for committing a massacre, killing civilians with any remorse; people killing this poison gas, warplanes and tanks, with such fancy machines but so deadly. Weapons are nothing compared to everything that our enemies used against us, these technological advances will not lead to something good seeing how it affect so many civilians, seeing how much chaos it created this will only lead to more chaos. Knowing the human race, they will likely desire to make better killing machines and this will lead to a new age of agony.

 

I am so glad this ended finally I saw horrible things such as the death of my father in hands of russian men, I thought that joining the war was going to make my father proud but now I just feel empty, I really dont know how I will tell my siblings and mother. 

 

 (this is my letter omg, I'm so good at making things btw this is how I write things )