The GM TURKEY caricature against the alliance between Turkey and Germany; judged only venal form of a playing card. Comment rhyming: 'KING OF COINS - Gold Libidin you fea often sin. As a reward you will have ... far less than nothing '. In the illustration the emperor; with ragged clothes; showing a coin from a mark; but is labeled 'off course'. The turkish-German alliance; which resulted in the entry of the Ottoman war in the First World War at the side of the Central Powers; was a diplomatic agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire 2 August 1914.