We can approach the historical phenomenon of World War I on different levels : Global, national, regional and even local. Between the global and the regional is the level of the single state. In which respects did the Ottoman war experience differ substantially from the experience of the other belligerent states in Europe and their societies? Indeed the way the people of the Ottoman empire experienced World War I and its immediate aftermath differs considerably from the way the war was experienced in Europe, and this in various respects: the outbreak of war; total or industrial warfare; the effects of the war on the population; 4. the end  of the war; and its  political legacy.