

Īlthough minor, the war was a precursor of the First World War as it sparked nationalism in the Balkan states.

However, the vagueness of the text, combined with subsequent adverse events unfavourable to the Ottoman Empire (the outbreak of the Balkan Wars and World War I), allowed a provisional Italian administration of the islands, and Turkey eventually renounced all claims on these islands in Article 15 of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Italy agreed to return the Dodecanese to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Ouchy in 1912. These territories became the colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which would later merge into Italian Libya.ĭuring the conflict, Italian forces also occupied the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War ( Turkish: Trablusgarp Savaşı, "Tripolitanian War", Italian: Guerra di Libia, "War of Libya") was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911, to 18 October 1912. Italy gains Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Fezzan, and the Dodecanese islandsĤ battalions Alpini, 7 battalions Ascari and 1 squadron Meharistiġ0,000 killed in reprisals & executions
