"There is plenty written about the First World War. Volumes of books, documentaries, diaries, poems, novels… However there is a very serious lack of resources, which tell the story of the war from the Turkish point of view. Most of the available sources are written in Turkish language and therefore inaccessible to researchers and history enthusiasts from other countries, since none of them are translated into Western languages. The fact that Turkey was using the Arabic script in those years makes the problem even bigger because some sources are inaccessible even to younger generations of Turks. I believe that this is a pity because given the overall backwardness of the empire and nature of its economy, the Turkish record in First World War was an astounding achievement, which should be studied not just by Turkish citizens, but the whole world."