AHC: Turkey/Ottomans, and any country in the British Isles, are closely intertwined

Make Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, and any country in the British Isles besides England, highly intertwined. Whether it's culturally, economically, or politically doesn't matter.

The later the POD the better.

As a side note, could this by any chance begin as a result of Ottoman assistance in the Irish Potato Famine?
 

Delvestius

Banned
Make Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, and any country in the British Isles besides England, highly intertwined. Whether it's culturally, economically, or politically doesn't matter.

The later the POD the better.

As a side note, could this by any chance begin as a result of Ottoman assistance in the Irish Potato Famine?

I don't see how the Ottomans would figure they could expend resources on such a far away venture so late. Like literally on the other side of Great Britain. They had enough business going on in Romania and Serbia, had to watch out for Growing Persians, and deal with an increasingly independent Egypt. All they did against Napoleon was forgotten by the west at this point, evident by French and British encroachment in Africa. And honestly, what would support for the Irish really do? The Englishman would be sitting there laughing, that the Irish wanted to cause trouble. But perhaps Greenland, owned by the defeated Danes, could be given to the Turks as a prestige holding (that they assuredly knew the maintenance would be too much for the Turks to handle, and it'd be a cheap buying game between Atlantic powers), but turned out to be profitable through well invested fishing industries, ensuring its longevity as a Turkish territory, who also helped educate others of its native Inuit culture. During the potato famine, Ireland becomes the #1 importer of fish produced in New Cyprus.
 
I don't see how the Ottomans would figure they could expend resources on such a far away venture so late. Like literally on the other side of Great Britain. They had enough business going on in Romania and Serbia, had to watch out for Growing Persians, and deal with an increasingly independent Egypt. All they did against Napoleon was forgotten by the west at this point, evident by French and British encroachment in Africa. And honestly, what would support for the Irish really do? The Englishman would be sitting there laughing, that the Irish wanted to cause trouble. But perhaps Greenland, owned by the defeated Danes, could be given to the Turks as a prestige holding (that they assuredly knew the maintenance would be too much for the Turks to handle, and it'd be a cheap buying game between Atlantic powers), but turned out to be profitable through well invested fishing industries, ensuring its longevity as a Turkish territory, who also helped educate others of its native Inuit culture. During the potato famine, Ireland becomes the #1 importer of fish produced in New Cyprus.
Well, "according to legend" the Ottomans purportedly did send some assistance to the Irish, you can search for it.

Though that may not have actually happened. But if there was a more powerful Ottoman Empire and a still-occurring Potato Famine...
 

Delvestius

Banned
Well, "according to legend" the Ottomans purportedly did send some assistance to the Irish, you can search for it.

Rest assured it would not be a continued endeavor on the Turk's end, as would be required for a notable connection to be formed. Though It'd be pretty interesting if the Ottomans were especially interested in the well-being of the Irish, perhaps supplied by the fish of Turkish Greenland. ;)

Though that may not have actually happened. But if there was a more powerful Ottoman Empire and a still-occurring Potato Famine...

I mean, not while British was about to expand in the Mediterranean. And of course they always have to watch out for Russia.

The name would actually probably be a turkified version of an inuit name for the region actually.

You used actually twice.
 
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