Ottoman Civil War
| Ottoman Civil War | |||||
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| Part of the Silent War | |||||
 Image from Batu Hakansade's infamous Anan geletschehi mejt (آنان كلجكي میت) speech. | |||||
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The Ottoman Civil War (Western Turkish: يۡللار ۶۰ مصاد٘مات, Jr. 60 Müsademat, 'clashes of the 1960s'), also known in some sources as the Turkish Civil War, is a conflict that was fought in the Ottoman Sultanate that occurred between 1962 and 1967. It was fought between the Imperial Government and various regional factions vying for power, each backed by an external power; it is for this reason it is considered a Silent War conflict. It was ultimately Batu Hakansade's ODN-backed coalition that restored the reformed Imperial Government to power in December 1967.
The war had its origins in the unstable political landscape of the post-Great War Sultanate. With the defeat and subsequent weakening of the Imperial Government, local notables, often with ideological and economic motives, rose to power and accumulated significant political authority in their respective regions. The 1939–1962 period saw many of these smaller groups subsumed into one of two coalitions: Hakansade's coalition backed by the United Kingdom and the Russia-aligned Kelkitli clique; violence would break out between them in 1962. This lasted until the declaration of the Hills' Armistice in 1964, which paused hostilities and temporarily partitioned the Sultanate between the IRC-supported republic in north and the junta-dominated Sultanate in the south. With British incitement, Batu Hakansade's coalition broke the truce in February 1965. It would take over two years until Batu's coalition would reunify the country.
