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A different WW1




WW1 starts off the same, ottomans join the central powers, and attempt at an attack on the suez. but this time, the arabs do not rebel. the sultan convinces them that he is on the side of islam, and to stay on the ottoman side. the arabs do not rebel, leaving many troops free to attack the suez. the ottomans attack but fail, just managing to push the british back a few miles.

The Indo-German conspiracy a few years back took place, but it failed. again, the germans send a group of diplomats to convince the Indians to rebel. along with the ottoman declaration of jihad, the indian muslim army units rebel, and following their example so does the rest of the country. because of this there is no Mesopotamian campaign, as there are not sufficient troops. the rebellion in india ties down thousands of British, Australian and south African forces. the rebels manage to capture delhi, but the british control most of the country.

The ottomans along with arab tribesman are able to push the british back to the canal, as the british are without the help of the australians (tied down in india) or any other british troops. but they manage to hold the canal. Gallipoli goes the same, as does the Western front. with germans making significant gains. In the caucasus, the ottomans make easy gains in armenia and azerbaijan, but cannot go any further.

An Ottoman and German declaration convince Emir Amanullah Khan to attack the British. After seeing the favorable conditions he declares war and lets loose the tribals on northern india. he then sends his army, along with fierce tribal warriors to attack russia, and liberate the northern islamic lands.

The ottomans keep trying to dislodge the british from the suez, but are unsuccesful. The ottomans incite the egyptians to rebel, and attack the british and they do. along with the german spring offensive and the Spanish declaration of war on britain, and its subsequent attacks on france and portugal, the british cannot make any significant commitment to egypt, and soon egypt is quicjly overrun by the ottomans and the egyptians. the garrisons are slaughtered and the ottomans once again capture egypt. Italy which controls lybia is on the side of the allies. italy fears that the ottomans will recapture egytp, as german equipment has breathed back much life into the ottoman military. spared much of the heavy fighting they pour troops into lybia and attack the ottomans. the ottomans arm the sanusi who keep the italians pinned to the coast.

In the caucasus the ottomans capture much land, as russia is falling apart and facing war on 5 fronts. with the fall of the suez canal, the british cannot supply india as easily, and most of india falls to the rebels, who make plans of independence from britian. the Afghans capture samarkand and tashkent, as the russian resistance falls in the face of the brutal afghan tribal warriors, who know only to fight. The british soon send an entire fleet to the suez canal in hopes of recapturing it. realizing how much importance lies in the suez canal, the germans also send a fleet, along with some turkish battleships they fight near the mouth of the canal, in a desperate battle which sees all but 1 turksih and 4 german battleships left, the entire british battlelfleet is destroyed. the british give up on egypt, and focus all of their strength in europe and spain.
With the british out of the picture, a joint german and tukish force under german command bravely captures triploi in italian libya, though most if libya continues to be in Italian control.


After seeing the marvelous victories that the sultan has brought to the ottomans, many people eschew the young turks. the sultan is granted all power, but a consitution is still in place. realizing that the ottomans cannot win the war wothout islam, they change the name of the empire to the Ottoman Empire of Islam, to appease the conservative tribesmen in the areas they are fighting in. The sultan begins using the title caliph more than sultan. he then does a bold move, that none would have had thought possible. he enters into an alliance with persia, persia, parts of persia were occupied by the british and russians. the persians join the central powers, and along with afghan, turkish and german help they oust most of the invaders. Iran, And Ottomans sign a treaty promising to divide the caucasus in half, and Iran also signs a treaty with Afghanistan in which they divide uzbekistan and modern day turkmenistan.

Now India had fallen, excpet for some pockets of British, Australian and South African control. Russia is in internal crisis, and France and Britain are strained by the costs of war. When the United States enters into war with Germany, because of the zimmerman incident, this tilts the balnce of power to a stalemate. the germans are prevented from making more gains in france, and spain is checked in portugal. Greece declares war on the Central Powers and attacks the Ottomans. The ottomans are now prevented from making any more massive gains in africa or the caucasus, as they send troops to threace to fight greece. the stalemate in greece between Bulgaria and the Turks and Greece stands


Iran and Afghanistan make significant gains in Central Asia, capturing most of turkmenistan for Iran and most of modern day tajikistan and uzbekistan for the afghans, by now most of the caucasus is also captures by the turks. The bolshevik revolution makes peace with all enemies, letting them keep their captured territories, while the new russia focuses on internal problems. this leaves afghanistan and iran to attack british india. the turks now can transfer many troops to greece and libya. greece is quickly defeated and and opts for peace, rather than destruction, they cede small parts to both bulgaria and the ottomans. the greece affair is short and quick. Now the ottomans send troops to Libya, but the british from sudan and other african colonies keep attacking the ottomans. the ottomans send massive armies to the sudan, under the banner of islam they make a treaty with the natives, that they would be left alone if they fight the british. they are armed by germany and in the sudan rebellion once again ensues. The rebellion is quickly put down, and no other british or french colonies rebel, except india and algeria, led by Abd-el-qader's grandson they attack french garrisons and the Algerian french colonial army joins abd-el-qader, and they attack algerian cities controlled by the french. the ottomans provided with an inlet (granted by greece previously) m attack the balkans and annex a significant portion of albania and serbia.

By now the ottomans and germans are in deadlock with the italians. the ottomans, free of fighting on all fronts except this one send all available troops to libya. along with german command they take libya in a fortnight and the italian garrison is ejected. Germany and Austria now provided with an easier route to attacking italy, besides crossing the alps transfer troops to libya and then attack italy by sea.

the situation in europe is mostly a stalemate. russia has fallen, austria-hungary void of the russian and italian probelm, transfers troops to the western front aiding their german counterpart. In the middle east, all of the tribes of the interior in the arabian peninsuala join the ottomans and oust all british "infidels" from the peninsuala. Britain secretly makes a deal with germany, it would pull our of the war in exchange for leaving all its colonies intact. they do this behind frances back. the german and spanish assault on France succeds and they reach paris. from both sides. left with no choice france seeks peace and much of their colonial possesions and mainland territories are lost. withdraws and so does italy. The central powers end out victourious. The ottomans control many oilfields, and become rich. the germans are left the dominant power in europe and spain controls much of southern france and portugal. india is independent. they partition the country into two halves (much like modern day india)without any violence

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