It was some sort of compensation akin to a <em>"man price"</em> or <em>"man payment"</em> called <em>"Weregild"</em><em>;</em> kind of a compensation paid to the party or family affected by a fatal feud outcome from the perpetrator, it was aka <em>"blood money"</em>, it was a price on somebody's life and paid as a fine to repare damages among family feuds, sometimes partly paid to the Kings and/or Lords as well, thus preventing further punishment o retaliations.
True Because the sultan’s alliance with the kaiser had gone horribly wrong. British forces held the capital Istanbul; most of the territories had fallen and Greek troops were ravaging the west of Turkey
