As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

In the midst of the distress and confusion that the Byzantine Empire now suffered, Orhan's eldest son, Suleyman Pasha, captured the Castle of Tzympe ( Cinbi ) in a bold move which gave the Turks a permanent foothold on the European side of the Dardanelles Straits.

In 1064, he, together with Basil Apokapes, doux of Paradounavon, defended the Balkan frontiers against the invading Oghuz Turks, but was defeated and suffered the humiliation of being taken captive.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 78, Russian troops armed with mostly Berdan single-shot rifles engaged Turks with Winchester repeating rifles and suffered heavy casualties.

Thomas Madden represents a view almost diametrically opposed to that of Asbridge ; while the crusade was certainly linked to church reform and attempts to assert papal authority, he argues that it was most importantly a pious struggle to liberate fellow Christians, who, Madden claims, " had suffered mightily at the hands of the Turks ".

The Turks did not lose any ships but suffered 400 dead and 800 wounded.

The Krasnodar Meskhetian Turks have suffered significant human rights violations, including the deprivation of their citizenship.

The Crusade of 1101 arose from a depletion of personnel suffered in battles with the Seljuq Turks in the First Crusade.

The Turks showed stubborn resistance to the east of Eskishehr, and on April 4 it was reported that the Greeks had suffered a severe check.

At the beginning of the 16th century the inhabitants of inland Croatia began to settle on Krk in their flight from the Turks, but Krk suffered a decline like all other Venetian property.

In a long passage, Werfel tells the story of Zeitun and introduces three more important characters of the book, the Protestant pastor Aram Tomasian, his pregnant wife Hovsannah, his sister Iskuhi, as well as the quasi-feral orphan girl Sato and Kevork, a houseboy who had suffered brain damage as a child at the hands of the Turks.

" For about a thousand years after that the city suffered from the depredations of the Christians, the Muslims and the Turks, and it was finally abandoned after being sacked by Tamerlane in 1402.

Good feeling in Istanbul wasn't to be found, as the Turks had suffered a defeat in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, ending Ottoman westward expansion.

It became a symbol of resistance to the Turks but suffered from an almost continuous state of warfare.

The Turks suffered about 8, 000 casualties and the French only 1, 000.

The Cretans were relatively protected by the walls of the monastery, while the Turks, vulnerable to the insurgents ' gunfire, suffered numerous losses.

The cannons destroyed the doors and the Turks made it into the building, where they suffered more serious losses.

The siege failed as the Turks suffered heavy casualties.

No one knew exactly how many casualties the Maniots suffered, but the Turks definitively lost 10, 000 men.

In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.

As Urban's greatest desire was that of a crusade against the Turks, the two parts signed a hasty peace, which was highly favourable to Visconti.

According to a 2012 poll, 51 % of the Turks in Germany, who account for nearly two thirds of the total Muslim population in Germany, believe that homosexuality is a sickness.

* 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.

The monument, which was designed and sculpted by Pierre-Étienne Monnot, features the pope seated upon the throne above a sarcophagus with a base-relief showing the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by John III Sobieski, flanked by two allegorical figures representing Faith and Fortitude.

Turkey | Turks Fall of Constantinople | laid siege to Constantinople for nearly two months in 1453.

The allocation of seats in the provincial assembly was based on the 1938 census held by the French authorities under international supervision: out of 40 seats, 22 were given to the Turks, nine for Alawi Arabs, five for Armenians, two for Sunni Arabs, and two for Christian Arabs.

However, these incursions and epochs, though pivotal, did not shape the region's history as the invasions of two later invading groups: Muslim Arabs and the Oghuz Turks.

The Turks and Caicos Islands ( and or ; abbreviated TCI ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.

The two distinct island groups are separated by the Turks Passage.

Together with nearby islands, all on Turks Bank, those two main islands form the two of the six administrative districts of the territory that fall within the Turks Islands.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are divided into six administrative districts ( two in the Turks Islands and four in the Caicos Islands ), headed by district commissioners.

The Turks proceed to capture Modon and Coron, the " two eyes of the Republic.

In 1352, the Ottoman Turks conducted their first incursion into the region subduing it completely within a matter of two decades and occupying it for five centuries.

In 1484, the Turks invaded and captured Chilia and Cetatea Albă ( Akkerman in Turkish ), and annexed the shoreline southern part of Bessarabia, which was then divided into two sanjaks ( districts ) of the Ottoman Empire.

Granberry and Vescelius argue for two migrations, from Hispaniola to the Turks and Caicos Islands and from Cuba to Great Inagua.

He then convinced the Turks that the Greek submarine posed a threat and sold them two.

In 1534 as the Kingdom of Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, the castle was besieged during the rebellion of Czibak Imre, the bishop of Oradea and two years later John Zápolya donated the castle along with other possessions to Török Bálint making him the richest nobleman of Hungary.

Based on Lucayan names for the islands, Granberry & Vescelius argue for two origins of colonization ; one from Hispaniola to the Turks and Caicos Islands through Mayaguana and Acklins and Crooked Islands to Long Island and the Great and Little Exuma Islands, and another from Cuba through Great Inagua Island, Little Inagua Island and Ragged Island to Long Island and the Exumas.

The Battle of Zenta proved to be the decisive victory in the long war against the Turks.

These defeats in the east and the west of the island proved decisive for the Turks and they abandoned their siege and departed.

Additionally, Prince Eugene of Savoy's decisive victory over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Zenta – leading to the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 – consolidated the Austrian Habsburgs and tipped the European balance of power in favour of the Emperor.

He was also decorated for his part in a decisive victory in the war against the Turks, and commanded a battalion of 1, 000 men in Siberia.

The German dynasty's main argument — one that many historians would judge to be decisive — was that it could assist Hungary against the Ottoman Turks, although, in 1526, the promise rang empty.

In 1071, after the decisive battle at Manzikert, the Seljuk Turks took possession of Theodosiopolis.

The 16th century saw the first widespread use of the matchlock musket as a decisive weapon on the battlefield with the Turks becoming leaders in this regard.

In the decisive Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Holy League succeeded in inflicting a decisive defeat on the invading Ottoman Turks.

At the Battle of Qatwan, however, Dashi achieved a decisive victory against the Seljuk Turks.