Accepting the peace offer but rejecting to pay the reparations

The 3 main central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. After the peace in Versailles, they were all supposed to be punished. Germany lost some of its territory and got to pay a lot of money, Austria-Hungary got divided into many smaller states and the Ottoman Empire was supposed to be divided by Allied Powers. Despite the Ottomans accepting the peace deal, they refused to give influence to the western powers and the Ottoman citizens were so eager to fight for not being in the European influence sphere that the allies decided to back off. That's how the Ottomans dodged paying reparation and being partitioned.