Isaac Beach
Banned
I've a question that's pretty straight forward. Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after the Great War, presuming Turkey still moves it's capital from Istanbul, is Ankara assured to be the capital or may alternate cities take that position? Ankara makes sense; defensible, centralised, deep in the country's center.
But in 1927 (the earliest statistic I could find) the population was only 75'000 and I suspect it's succeeding growth has a lot to do with it being the capital, as is natural. Bursa was a similar population, at 61'400. Comparatively, according to a much earlier census for Izmir in 1892, the population was about 250'000 and I suspect that would be somewhat larger in the 1910s and 20s.
So, proposing that Turkey doesn't need to worry about Greece occupying Smyrna or the Straits becoming internationalised following WWI, but still intends to move their capital, perhaps in a Central Powers victory scenario where they still lose the bulk of the Middle East, where would they move their capital?
But in 1927 (the earliest statistic I could find) the population was only 75'000 and I suspect it's succeeding growth has a lot to do with it being the capital, as is natural. Bursa was a similar population, at 61'400. Comparatively, according to a much earlier census for Izmir in 1892, the population was about 250'000 and I suspect that would be somewhat larger in the 1910s and 20s.
So, proposing that Turkey doesn't need to worry about Greece occupying Smyrna or the Straits becoming internationalised following WWI, but still intends to move their capital, perhaps in a Central Powers victory scenario where they still lose the bulk of the Middle East, where would they move their capital?