mehmed v reşâd was the 35th sultan of the ottoman empire. he reigned from 27 april 1909 to 3 july 1918. he was born in istanbul in 1844 and died in 1918 at the age of 73. from 1911-1913 the italian’s took libya and the balkan’s started a war with the ottoman empire and it pushed the ottoman’s away back to turkey and egypt . he was involved in world war 1 in the caucasus campaign (russo-turkish war : 1914-1918) as well the gallipoli campaign fighting the british empire . he was also involved in the russian revolution during the great war but was not involved in the armenian genocide by enver pasha.