Jevdet Bey was the governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the Armenian Genocide. He was portrayed by Elias Koteas in the 2002 movie Ararat. Ruins at the location of old city of Van. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Söğüt (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire Canada France Italy Russian Empire United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Sir Arthur Currie Ferdinand Foch Nicholas II Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar Potiorek İsmail Enver Ferdinand I... Armenian Genocide photo. ... Elias Koteas, as Casey Jones, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Elias Koteas (born 11 March 1961 in Montréal, Canada) is a Greek Canadian actor. ... Ararat is a 2002 film by Atom Egoyan about the Armenian Genocide, an event that is denied to this day by the government of Turkey. ...