The cooler heads in the Committee are growing shy of them, and an old fox like David is lying low till his time comes.

Now it doesn't want arguing that a gang of that kind has got to hang close together or they may hang separately.
They've got no grip on the ordinary Turk, barring the fact that they are active and he is sleepy, and that they've got their guns loaded.' 'What about the Germans here ?' I asked.
Blenkiron laughed.

'It is no sort of a happy family.

But the Young Turks know that without the German boost they'll be strung up like Haman, and the Germans can't afford to neglect an ally.

Consider what would happen if Turkey got sick of the game and made a separate peace.
The road would be open for Russia to the Aegean.