Russian Front Turkish uniforms are green?

[Enakan]

I picked these Turkish 54mm gloss painted metal figures at a store that was going out of business, should I assume they are uniformed for fighting against the Russians?  The green uniforms threw me, I am used to the more tan desert uniforms.

Also, I can see they have a Maxim.  The field piece a 77mm?

Attaching a photo.  Don't know the make or painter.

[moiterei_1984]

The gun is a 77mm Feldkanone 96 neuer Art as you‘ve correctly surmised. The MG is a German made MG08. Essentially a German version of the Maxim. Regarding the green uniform I‘m a little out of my depth but I think to recall, that it was introduced later in the war.

[Enakan]

Thank you sir!

The figures are lovely, I'm going to keep 'em and put them up on a shelf!  Got some JS Dietz British infantry to keep them company!

Just about the lone 54's I have, besides some old beat up plastics...

[Donkeymilkman]

WOW! Am I Jealous!

My first ever wargaming army was an Ottoman one for ww1. I've never seen figures like that before as I do find Ottoman figures to be a rarity, luckily more recent companies provide nice ranges for them. That would be a set of late war Ottoman troops even potentially the early 1920's, however, the uniforms varied immensely from person to person. I believe some Kurdish officers in the cavalry used to wear traditional Kurdish dress when in battle, so most likely you could get away with using them for anything really.

[Plynkes]

There was huge variation in uniform colours in the Ottoman army. You could paint them khaki, brown, green or off-white and not be wrong. The green seems to have been worn in the desert theatre too, so it isn't necessarily all about the location.


The Turks in the war comics I read as a kid always wore green.

[Metternich]

While a brownish shade is the more usual (sometimes old uniforms from the Balkans War), there were green-hued uniforms too on the Russian and Caucasus fronts.  Also, there are photos of Ottoman troops on the Eastern European fronts wearing Austro-Hungarian or German tunics (which were, of course, FeldGrau, a greenish grey).  In addition, the Turkish Army uniform tunic 1919 - 1922 (i.e. during the frontier war with Greece) was of a more greenish shade.
http://wwiinfantryuniforms.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/8/3/18839062/8874707_orig.jpg  (from this website https://wwiinfantryuniforms.weebly.com/central-powers.html)

https://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/ww1-ottoman-unidentified-equipment-and-insignia-mixed-turkish-austrian-and-german-uniforms/

https://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/1919-till-1922-turkish-army/