<span>some people wanted to keep there land claims</span>
They fall out because the capital of the country was gone the government was in shock trying to recover.
All German Americans were required to join military armed forces. To those who hadn't signed up, were imprisoned.
But apparently, in many sources, it states that German-Americans in both Germany and US, were imprisoned. Sad truth :(
Answer: The Turks fought fiercely and successfully defended the Gallipoli Peninsula against a massive Allied invasion in 1915-1916, but by 1918 defeat by invading British and Russian forces and an Arab revolt had combined to destroy the Ottoman economy and devastate its land, leaving some six million people dead and millions. Finally, after fighting on the side of Germany in World War I and suffering defeat, the empire was dismantled by treaty and came to an end in 1922, when the last Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed VI, was deposed and left the capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in a British warship.
