Kammala wannan jumla: A farkon 1915, shugaban da ya gabata na aikin soja na Jamus zuwa Daular Ottoman, Baron von der Goltz, ya isa Istanbul a matsayin mai ba da shawara na soja ga Sultan, Mehmed V. Tsohon Baron bai yi hulɗa da Liman von Sanders ba kuma ba ya son Pashas uku (Enver Pasha, Cemal Pasha da Talat) waɗanda suka gudanar da Daular Ottoman a lokacin yaƙin. Baron ya ba da shawarar wasu manyan hare-hare kan 'yan Burtaniya, amma waɗannan shawarwarin ba su zo da komai ba yayin fuskantar hare-haren Allied a kan Ottomans a bangarori uku (Dardanelles, Caucasus Front, da sabon buɗewa Mesopotamian Front). Liman ya rabu da tsohon Baron lokacin da Enver Pasha ya aike shi ya yi yaƙi da Birtaniyya a Mesopotamiya a watan Oktoba 1915. (Goltz ya mutu a can watanni shida daga baya, kafin sojojin Birtaniya a
Kut ya mika wuya.)