AHC: Entente Ottoman Empire

When would the Ottoman Empire with at least a territorial extent of 1914 collapse?


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All Rounder

Gone Fishin'
Lets just say that the Ottomans decide to join the Entente in hopes of regaining some lost land in the Balkans, and joins the war in 1915 on the allied side, where as Greece joins on the Central side a couple days after the Ottomans do. What will happen over the next 101 years in the world's history as a result of this divergence?
 
As soon as the war was over, there would be no incentive for the Entente not to continue what they'd been doing long before 1914, and just keep picking away at Ottoman territorial integrity until there was nothing left. For that matter, who in the Central Powers did they have territorial claims against? As of 1914, nobody.
 

All Rounder

Gone Fishin'
As soon as the war was over, there would be no incentive for the Entente not to continue what they'd been doing long before 1914, and just keep picking away at Ottoman territorial integrity until there was nothing left. For that matter, who in the Central Powers did they have territorial claims against? As of 1914, nobody.

1.Why? If the Ottomans supported the Entente economically and militaristically why would they, it would be like having someone who you hurt emotionally or physically help you in a fight, and then after that still treat them like you did before after they helped you.

2. Ottoman's land only extended along East Africa when they picked it off in the 1870s, so there was no reason to claim against someone you didn't have anything to get from, plus I think it was just Africa that they went after. I forgot what land was taken by Russia during...1873?
 
1.Why? If the Ottomans supported the Entente economically and militaristically why would they, it would be like having someone who you hurt emotionally or physically help you in a fight, and then after that still treat them like you did before after they helped you.

2. Ottoman's land only extended along East Africa when they picked it off in the 1870s, so there was no reason to claim against someone you didn't have anything to get from, plus I think it was just Africa that they went after. I forgot what land was taken by Russia during...1873?

1. Because they didn't support the Ottomans, and the Ottomans still had territory that they, especially the French and the Russians had wanted for over a hundred years. The Russians would still want the Dardanelles and the French the Levant, while the British decision not to contest those was what made the Triple Entente possible in the first place. Their assistance during the war wouldn't be unwelcome, but their usefulness would end afterwards.

2. The Russians took chunks of the Caucasus throughout the 19th Century, the British had Egypt, Cyprus and Kuwait, and the Italians had Libya. They might also want parts of Macedonia and Thessaly back from Serbia/Greece if they could get those. By comparison, the Austrians took Bosnia in 1878 and that's it.
 
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