On December 6th 1911, 14 indigenous Berber martyrs were executed by hanging on a gallows by the Italian occupying forces in the Maidan Shuhada square in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

　　On December 6th 1911, 14 indigenous Berber martyrs were executed by hanging on a gallows by the Italian occupying forces in the Maidan Shuhada square in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. After winning the war of aggression against Libya, which was under Ottoman rule, the Italian army hanged Muslim Berbers in Tripoli. Due to the superiority of the Italian Air Force, not only the approximately 8,000 Turkish soldiers stationed in Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, but also the irregular forces of the indigenous Berber population, numbering around 20,000, paid a heavy price in resisting the invading Italian forces. Italy deployed a total of 100,000 soldiers in the Italo-Turkish War.

　　At 2:30 p.m. on September 29th 1911, Italy declared war on Turkey, and the Italo-Turkish War broke out. Around 20,000 Italian troops landed in Tripoli in two separate attacks on October 10th and 12th 1911. The Italian army faced fierce resistance from a 4,000-strong Turkish force, particularly from the native Berber cavalry. On October 23rd and 26th 1911, the Italian army was attacked by the natives on the outskirts of Tripoli, and hundreds of people died. The Italian army repelled the attacks by the natives, and severely punished the natives, killing more than 4,000.

　　The Italian army bombarded the Ottoman capital, and in May 1912 they occupied the islands of Rhodes and the Dodecanese. The First Balkan War broke out on October 8th 1912, and the two countries signed the Treaty of Uchi on October 18th. As a result of the Italo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire was weakened, and internal strife spread in the Balkan Peninsula due to the division of nations and ethnic groups, which became an internal cause of World War I.