Hi,
I seem to understand the French and British were adament on dismantling the Ottoman Empire and cutting it in chunks under their direct influence, but did they ever (in hard times, for example after the failure of the Gallipoli campaign) consider peace or reached out for a peace deal?
And the other way around, did the Ottoman ever try to negociate a separate peace that could have "saved" them?
Thank you in advance for your answer!
The Ottomans did sign a separate peace in the end. While the fighting on the Western front was ended by the 11 November Armistice, the Ottomans had already signed the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October.
I'm not aware of any efforts at a separate peace on either side once hostilities had begun. None of the disasters on either side was so bad as to consider capitulation until very late in the war. In the end the actual things that prompted the Ottoman armistice was the collapse of the Salonica Front and the separate peace with Bulgaria at the end of September 1918. Talat Pasha on hearing the news replied "Boku yedik" "We've eaten shit."
Enver Pasha was forced out on 4 October and the rest of the Committee of Union and Progress were out within a couple weeks. Talat, Djemal and Enver Pasha would shortly thereafter flee to Germany.