ABSTRACT

As early as 1839 German ambition directs towards Germany by Von Moltke but it was not till 1873 the process of "penetration" begins. In that year the enterprise of the Anatolian railway launches by German financiers. In the succeeding year it extends itself as far as Konia; and in 1899 and 1902 concessions obtains for an extension to Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. It is at this point that the question became one of international politics. The proposed railway says that competes with the Trans-Siberian with the French railways with the ocean route to India, with the steamboats on the Tigris. Germany nursing the political ambitions under the cover of an economic enterprise. It urges that the fact Germany takes the opportunity to squeeze out the trade of other nations and to constitute a German monopoly. An agreement with France, regarding the railways of Asiatic Turkey, signed in February 1914 and with England in June of the same year.