AHC/WI: Anatolian power builds the "Ottoman Empire" 2,500 years early?

Is there any way that a state based in Anatolia, like a Phrygian state or a Hittite Empire that lasted through the Bronze Age Collapse somehow, could build an empire sometime between the Collapse and the rise of the Achaemenid Empire that had roughly the borders of the 1914 Ottoman Empire? Who would be the most likely candidate for such a thing and what would such an empire look like?

Bonus points if said empire possessed Egypt and/or parts of the Balkans.
 
Hittites are your best bet, but this is Bronze Age technology and with a smorgasboard of local identities, ethnicities, and nations - it's gonna be a really hard climb. Especially with Egypt being a powerful nation at the time.
 
Hittites are your best bet, but this is Bronze Age technology and with a smorgasboard of local identities, ethnicities, and nations - it's gonna be a really hard climb. Especially with Egypt being a powerful nation at the time.

Borders of Ottoman Empire in 1914 extended to Persian Gulf and nominally (not practically) to Egypt.
Borders of Neo-Assyrian Empire from 663 to 655 BC extended to Persian Gulf and included Egypt.
What Neo-Assyrian Empire did not control was Black Sea or Aegean Sea coast of Anatolia, nor Egypt.

How did Assyria manage the recovery from Bronze Age Collapse under Adad-Nirari II, or Ashur-Dan II?

What would be necessary for a state to the west of Assyria, with a homebase like Harran, Carchemish, Aleppo or Zincirli, to launch the recovery from Bronze Age Collapse in 10th century BC, conquer Assyria and go on to unite the Fertile Crescent?
 
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