Both Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain and the German general Erich Ludendorff claimed that Turkish entry prolonged the war by at least two years. In the short term it means new theatres of operations in the Dardanelles, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Caucasus (Armenia in particular).  The war in the Caucasus also led directly to the genocide of the Armenian people. (Historian Ian.F.W. Beckett).

Both Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain and the German general Erich Ludendorff claimed that Turkish entry prolonged the war by at least two years. In the short term it means new theatres of operations in the Dardanelles, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Caucasus (Armenia in particular).  The war in the Caucasus also led directly to the genocide of the Armenian people. (Historian Ian.F.W. Beckett).