{"id":823181,"date":"2023-10-17T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823181"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:42","slug":"why-didnt-russia-conquer-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/10\/17\/why-didnt-russia-conquer-constantinople\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn\u2019t Russia conquer Constantinople?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-didn-t-Russia-try-to-conquer-Constantinople-and-surrounding-territories-after-the-Ottoman-Empire-collapsed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>Why didn\u2019t Russia try to conquer Constantinople and surrounding territories after the Ottoman Empire collapsed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 1768 \u2014 1774 Russian Ottoman war , Russia was close to conquer the Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/battleofchesme-cesme.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/battleofchesme-cesme.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/battleofchesme-cesme-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Battle of Chesme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ali-Bey-al-Kabir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ali-Bey-al-Kabir.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ali-Bey-al-Kabir-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ali Bey al Kabir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia conquered Crimea and kicked the Ottomans out , defeated them in Caucasus , and totally destroyed the Ottoman navy in 1770 during the battle of Chesme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a revolt occurred in Greece and Russia formed an alliance with the Mamluk of Egypt Ali Bey al Kabir who kicked the Ottomans out of Egypt and marched towards Syria with Russian support<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia bombed and occupied Beirut , at that time the Ottoman Empire lost all of it&#8217;s Arab provinces as Iraq was ruled by Kulmnd Mamluks and Syria was falling as well , Russia had the Ottomans on their knees , but Britain , Austria and Prussia saved the Ottomans and prevented Russia from conquering Constantinople<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia tried again in 1791 and 1878 and was too close but the Western powers feared a very powerful Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Jafar on Quora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn\u2019t Russia try to conquer Constantinople and surrounding territories after the Ottoman Empire collapsed? During the 1768 \u2014 1774 Russian Ottoman war , Russia was close to conquer the Ottoman Empire Russia conquered Crimea and kicked the Ottomans out , defeated them in Caucasus , and totally destroyed the Ottoman navy in 1770 during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":823183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2101],"class_list":["post-823181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-ottoman-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}