Yakin Ottoman-Greek na 1897 yaki ne tsakanin Masarautar Girka da Daular Usmaniyya.Dalilinsa na kai tsaye ya haɗa da matsayin lardin Ottoman na Crete, wanda yawancin mutanen Girka suka daɗe suna son haɗin gwiwa da Girka.Duk da nasarar da Ottoman ya samu a filin wasa, an kafa jihar Cretan mai cin gashin kanta a karkashin Ottoman suzerainty a shekara mai zuwa (sakamakon shiga tsakani na manyan masu iko bayan yakin), tare da Yarima George na Girka da Denmark a matsayin Babban Kwamishinansa na farko.Yakin ya sanya sojoji da jami'an siyasa na kasar Girka don yin gwaji a wani yakin bude baki a hukumance a karon farko tun bayan yakin 'yancin kai na kasar Girka a shekara ta 1821. Ga Daular Ottoman, wannan kuma shi ne yunkurin yaki na farko na gwada sojojin da aka sake shiryawa. tsarin.Sojojin Ottoman sun yi aiki a karkashin jagorancin aikin soja na Jamus (1883-1895) na Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, wanda ya sake tsara sojojin Ottoman bayan cin nasara a yakin Russo-Turkish na 1877-1878 .Rikicin ya tabbatar da cewa Girka ba ta shirya yaƙi ba.Tsare-tsare, katanga da makamai ba su wanzu, tarin jami’an rundunar bai dace da ayyukansa ba, kuma horo bai isa ba.A sakamakon haka, mafi girma a lambobi, mafi kyawun tsari, - kayan aiki da jagorancin Ottoman, wanda ya kunshi mayakan Albaniya masu kwarewa, sun kori sojojin Girka zuwa kudu daga Thessaly kuma suka yi barazanar Athens, ^[52] kawai don dakatar da wuta lokacin da Manyan Mahukunta ne suka lallashin Sarkin Musulmi ya amince da a yi amfani da makamai.