Abdul Hadi Pasha
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they did liberate damascuc
That's not really true. The British did all the heavy lifting - the Hashemite forces were just along for the ride.
they did liberate damascuc
Could you get a Vatican situation, where the Caliphate is a ruler of Constantinople that Turkey allows to exist?
The Young Turk Revolution already happened in 1908, which delegitimized the Empire in many ways to its non-Turkish residents (those that weren't already champing at the ethnic nationalism bit). I don't thing think the Arab revolt during WWI would have gained much traction (regardless of how dashing T.E. Lawrence was) if there was still a respected Caliph around...
If the OE doesn't enter WWI then its probably able to survive pretty well. Russia would fall and the remaining Entente powers would be too exhausted at the end of an equally long *WWI to try anything on the Ottomans.
With the war going on, would the OE be able to complete the railroad to Baghdad on its own?
Will the straits be open for the Entente to ship supplies to Russia? If they are, does that make a difference to internal Russian situation?
OE has a lot to gain in the Caucasus- in the chaos of revolutionary Russia they might be able to swipe push the border north, get Azerbaijan and access to even more oil. Maybe even get involved in some post-Russian Empire, pre-USSR Central Asian politics, helping out fellow Muslims and all.
Post-WWI Germany is going to be looking for foreign allies who can help it get around Versailles restrictions on armaments. The Ottomans (especially the Army), even if they don't enter WWI, are going to be sympathetic to the Germans (the Germans having been the major foreign trainer of the OE Army).
Having survived WWI, do you see a petrol-wealth fueled OE being able to self-finance more infrastructure projects (more railroads, industrialization)?
the entire reason germany made the ottomans an ally was because of the straits, he didnt want the russians to be easily supplied,Broadly agree. In answer to questions, the Ottomans are going to milk access to the Straits for all it's worth. While they can't complete the Baghdad RR by themselves, they can probably get a lot of work on it done with some small amount of German expertise - and as neutrals the USA is always available for materials.
Ottoman non-entry will make Russia more formidable, but it's impossible to say whether or not it would have prevented a collapse. By 1915 the Ottomans will begin to look pretty scary with their army fully reorganized; I would imagine the Russians won't leave their border unguarded, but this is not as critical as access through the Straits.
When Sultan Selim III began his reforms, he asked France for help. A young artillery officer named Napoleon Bonaparte was to be sent. But when he put down a Parisian Mob with a "whiff of grapeshot" he was kept in France. What if Napoleon was actually sent? I think that his military genius would have ended Janissary domination and the Ottoman Army would have been brought back to life. This would mean that the Ottomans would be a major ally of the French Empire, attacking Habsburg Austria, Russia etc.
the entire reason germany made the ottomans an ally was because of the straits, he didnt want the russians to be easily supplied,
a reorganized ottoman military might take the caucasus from a revolutionary russia, with all the chaos, maybe even make a headway in the balkans again, taking some bulgarian territory as it lost in ww1
if the ottomans didnt enter the war, they could end up a superpower, like the US. it got money by lending money to other countries with interest, selling weapons. the ottomans could sell their massive oil reserves.
No it couldn't, the Ottoman Empire lacked the resources, the expertice and the sheer size to be anything but a midlevel power after that time, at best we can get something like post war Japan*.
*if more based on mineral wealth than industrial production
A hearts and minds style campagain to cool off the Arab Revolt.
And can the Armeanian Genocide folks. The loyal millet, should have been seduced not slaughtered If that happens when Russia goes down they'll be fun in Istanbul.