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Hey guys, some time ago I started thinking about an event that might very well have brought Bulgaria out of Eastern Bloc as early as the 1960s and I wonder what you think of that. Some Basic Assumptions Now, we all know that according to the Brezhnev doctrine (tested in practice by Khrustchev...

Attack on Otranto I On 1480, Mehmed II would reconcile with his son, Bayezid and Mehmed II would make his son, Bayezid as his official heir that he has chosen, causing his rival siblings to flee to surrounding countries due to their lack of support.[1] The support of Mehmed II of his son...

The Russo-Turkish war was once quite close to ending in an ottoman victory. According to Wikipedia's article on the course of the war: "Osman Pasha organized a defense and repelled two Russian attacks with colossal casualties on the Russian side. At that point, the sides were almost equal in...

I'm a bit of a sucker for WWI PoD's, and one of my favourites is that of a successful pushing of the dardanelles, with the british securing Istanbul with its massive navy, possibly knocking out the Ottomans from the war, and creating a more secure supply line to Russia through the black sea...

This is one question that has been plaguing my head for quite a while. Suppose that the Marmara area which connects Europe to Asia Minor is uninhabited, and you are tasked with choosing the capital of a state centered in this location. The question is, which of these two straits is more feasible...

So, let's say the ottoman high command isn't so naive and drafts a different war plan for dealing with the balkan league. They eventually win the First Balkan War, retaining their balkan territories while making some concessions for autonomy in these territories. The question is: when there's a...

So here's the challenge: make Turkey and Hungary "switch places" when it comes to the peace treaties following WW1. The idea is for Turkey to lose as much territory as possible, possibly those proposed in the Treaty of Sévres, while Hungary avoids most losses incurred under Trianon, either...

Inspired by a discussion on a different forum: Let's say that the Ottoman Empire is knocked out of WW1 much earlier, resulting in Sykes–Picot Agreement being implemented. But the Bolshevik Revolution still occurs and the Russian-controlled parts of Anatolia are turned into the Turkish SSR. How...

most of us do know that, during the 19th century, the balkan territories of the Ottoman Empire would give in to various armed rebel groups of the ethnic-independentist type, leading to the creation (or re-creation) of various nations such as Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania. So...

As far as I understand when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, religion was more important than language when it came to deciding who was Turkish and who was not. This strikes me as somewhat odd, since the Young Turks wanted a secular republic. It seems strange with a religious definition of what...

Let's assume that the military coup succeeded, key figures of the government were arrested and the goverment was overthrown. (Assuming that the government had no time to rally the people against the armed putsch.) What would happen after this?

The exact POD doesn't matter, but as an example Ataturk and other important persons in the Turkish nationalists die in or around 1919. Eventually another turkish government becomes established in Ankara, and widely accepted as legitimate. This government accepts the Treaty of Sèvres in January...

Suppose Hitler decides to postpone Barbarossa for all the blatantly obvious reasons he should have in OTL, in favor of continued cooperation with the USSR (for now...). Under what circumstances would Turkey have been given the Poland treatment by Stalin and Hitler? Would Stalin have gone for...

Recently, I'm thinking of an idea where the Kurds substituted Turks in (most of) the Anatolian peninsula, as in beyond their homeland (OTL southeastern Turkey and the Zagros Mountains). While I really thought that such idea was almost/borderline implausible, I want to reassure if this...