Józef Pomiankowski

As such, he tried to use the differences between the Germans and the Ottomans in order to assert Austria-Hungary's political and economic interests in the Orient despite the limited means of power.

[8] Due to this competitive policy persuaded by Pomiankowski, there had been a brief brawl between German and Austrian governments in 1917 in question over influences and power Austria played undermining Germany.

He helped set up the "Orient Department" in 1917 in order not to fall behind the overpowering partner Germany in the economic exploitation of the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire.

Pomiankowski, like many major Polish-born figures before, strongly valued the Turks for their military bravery, but blamed Islam for the backwardness of the empire that prohibited modernization of Turkey.

[13] Like Pallavicini, he was also skeptical of the Austrian mission to the Orient by Alois Musil and Archduke Hubert Salvator, from September to November 1917.

[15] In May 1916, he visited the eastern Anatolian areas where the genocide occurred and reported it to Vienna, Pomiankowski accused Enver Pasha of being complicit, however his tentative diplomatic attempts to obtain security for the persecuted Armenians were unsuccessful.

[18] But with the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, he immediately followed the call of Józef Piłsudski for the resurrection of Poland from Austrian, German and Russian occupation.