| 3 January 1914 | Enver Pasha replaced Ahmet Izzet Pasha as the Minister of War. |
| 1 March 1914 | Mustafa Kemal was promoted to Lt. Colonel. |
| 13 March 1914 | The Istanbul pact was signed between Ottoman Government and Serbia. |
| May 1914 | Mustafa Kemal wrote his book, Chat with the Officer and the Commander. It was published in December 1918 in Istanbul. |
| 1 August 1914 | The First World War begun |
| 3 November 1914 | Russia declared war on the Ottoman Government. |
| 5 November 1914 | Britain and France declared war on the Ottoman Government |
| 11 November 1914 | Ottoman Government entered the war together with the Axis governments. |