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The Balkan War
RISING OF DARKNESS-
What if The Ottoman Empire won the Balkan war

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PART I
8 October 1912-The Balkan League invades the Ottoman Empire.The Ottoman intelligence has wrong information on the location of the Balkan league armies and this will have catastrophic consequences for the Ottomans .The bulk of Ottoman soldiers was located in Macedonia,while the biggest army of the Balkan league was in Thrace,(where Bulgaria was fighting alone.) was in Thrace(the ottomans expected only 3 divisions supported by cavalry)The Bulgarian army advances in Thrace,which is divided into three smaller armies and besieged Edirne and Kırklareli and for now the four Balkan states are winning In Thrace.In Macedonia, however the situation is different.

The Macedonian and Vardar armies are more numerous than the Serbian and Bulgarian armies, but that will change when the Balkans allies win most of the operations on the Thracian front,as the Ottoman empire is underdeveloped and untrained,additionally,the regime of Abdulmecid has forbdidden all war games and most of the generals have no idea how to appy modern tactics on the battlefield.The Bulgarians soon manage to override the Ottoman defences and reached Thessaloniki one day after the Greeks,where the two kings met. The Ottomans had recently improved their navy by buying newer ships from the Germans and this helped them at Galipoli.
In the middle of the war,the Balkan league is winning decisively,but the people are afraid that the Great Powers won't like the expansion of the Balkan League and they are right to be scared.The London conference between the Great powers(Russia,UK,France,A-H and Germany.The Ottoman Empire didn't take part.)The conference was about the Balkan war most of nations were for an intervention in the war,as they didn't want to lose their influence over the Balkans.UK and A-H(The two main nations which were against the San Stefano preliminary treaty)were once again against the young Balkan states and for the intervention on the Ottoman side.The austro-hungarian ambassadors talked about the effects of a Balkan victory.They said that the nations from the Balkan won't be so dependant on the Great Powers and that they will probably stay together after the end of the war and that they will attack Serbia and Montenegro.The Russian delegates ,on the other side that they shouldn't help the Ottomanss and leave the Balkan war to the Balkans and they mentioned that the Ottomans aren't Christians.The other delegates said that this doesn't mean that the Balkans states have to expand.At the end of the conference most of the ambassadors were at the same opinion-something will have to be done about the Balkans.

A-H is ready to attack and declares war on the Balkan League on the 1 February 1913.People are scared,but they never expected that such drastic measures would be taken.The Balkan League isn't capable of fighting on two fronts.A-H invades and the battle of Belgrade is won by the Austro-hungarians(led by Arthur Arz von Straußenburg with an army of 100,000 men against the small army of 20,000,which were defending the capital)They can't leave the Ottoman front but if they don't send some units the Austrians will continue the invasion.This weakens the Ottoman front,and soon Thessaloniki is reclaimed.TheBalkan league starts peace negotiating,after a few decisive defeats,as they can't fight against the armies of two of the great Powers. and the Balkan war is won by the Ottomans.The peace treaty of Belgrade is a treaty between the Balkan League and A-H.The Ottoman Empire was not represented and later the treaty of Thessaloniki will be concluded with the Balkan states.

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