Sultan Mehmed V Reşad: The Tragic Poet Who Watched an Empire Fall
Mehmed V Reşad was never meant to rule. After spending decades locked in the ‘Golden Cage’ writing poetry, he was thrust onto the throne of a crumbling empire. From being a puppet of the Young Turks to reluctantly declaring WWI Jihad, this is the story of the gentle man who presided over the Ottoman end of days.
