 Complete the following phrase:  Instead, this period became the story of the twilight struggle of the Empire. Despite military reforms, the Ottoman Army met with disastrous defeat in the Italo-Turkish War 19111912 and the Balkan Wars 19121913, resulting in the Ottomans being driven out of North Africa and nearly out of Europe. Continuous unrest leading up to World War I resulted in the 31 March Incident, 1912 Ottoman coup détat and the 1913 Ottoman coup détat. The Committee of Union and Progress CUP government became increasingly radicalised during this period, and conducted ethnic cleansing and genocide against the empires 