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Germans
1. Erich von Falkenhayn
2. Paul von Hindenburg
3. Wilhelm Groener
4. Hans von Seeckt
(second row)
1. Erich Ludendorff
2. Wilhelm Heye
3. Helmuth von Moltke
4. Herman von Stein
(third row)
1. Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf
2. Wilhelm, German Crown Prince of Prussia
3. Admiral Souchon
4. Liman von Sanders
Ottomans
1. Ismail Enver
2. Ahmed Izzet
3. Süleyman Şefik
4. Ahmed Djemal
(second row)
1. Mehmet Esat Bülkat
2. İsmail Cevat Çobanlı
3. Ömer Fahrettin Türkkan
4. Cafer Tayyar
(third row)
1. Nureddin İbrahim Konyar
2. Şehzade Osman Fuad Efendi
3. Mustafa Kemal
4. Halil Kut
Both of these groups where allies during ww1. These are not all of general staff of each country but are probably the most known.
In my objective opinion the Turkish general staff had more experience at the start of the war, only because they fought before dure the balkans and in Libya. The only war experience germans had at that time was the franco prussian war in 1877.
Most of the Ottoman and German high command where conservative revolutionaries, the Germans in exception to the Ottomans and other countries where also Social darwinists. It was not difficult for them to later become national socialists and start a war all over again.
The youngturk revolution in 1908 ousted most of the old reactionary garde in the high command. The youngturks themselves where a big tent pollitical party with many factions, one of these where the conservative revolutionaries who where pro German. Within a few years after this revolution a coup happened in 1913 and the state became effectivly a millitary dictatorship. The conservative revolutionaries that now holded the power followed a pan-Islamic pan turkist ideological line. Through Iran they wanted to reach india and from there to central asia to expel occupying forces from these lands.
*Germany became a millitary dictatorship in 1917.