Italo-Turkish War (TURKO-ITALIAN WAR - 1912)

Above: Map during Trablusgarp Savasi

In Italy this war between Turkey and Italy was known as Guerra di Libia or The Libyan War and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savasi. It was a conflict between the Ottoman Turks and Italy. Lasting from 29th September to 18th October it is also known in history as The Tripolitan War.

Above: Italian soldiers firing against enemy Turks at Tripoli

Libya at that time consisted of the Turkish provinces of Tripolitania and Cyremaoca together with Rhodes Island and the archipelago of Dodecanese, with a Greek speaking population, near Anatolia. Italy seized these regions from the Ottoman Turks.