BooNZ
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Are we talking about the Greeks or the Ottomans?Maybe: well, take them into account after this war ends, but during the war treat them decently.
The Italians had already taken all they could from the Ottomans without pissing off the other powers - they were probably more obsessed with A-H or even French territory...What about Italy, do you think being friendly to the Turks might piss them off?
Probably not - most would struggle to consider mainland Anatolia as historically Greek and Constantinople was coveted by bigger dogs than Greece. The Greco Turkish war was triggered by cumulative animosity from the displacement of well over a million refugees generated by the Balkan wars and dissolution of the A-H empire, coupled with acute Ottoman weakness and the willingness of the Entente powers to sponsor Greek aspirational gains.And the Greece still wanted to get back their historical lands at that time. This did lead to the Greco Turkish war in OTL.
I strongly disagree. If anything the OTL alignment of the Ottomans with the CP powers would have appeared most unlikely prior to the war. The French had vast investments in the Ottoman empire, the British had very significant investments and had been appointed naval advisors and the Ottomans were fearful to do anything that might offend the Russians. Compared to each individual Entente power, the German investment in a railway line and a few military advisors was trivial.But I expect the chance of Ottoman neutrality to be 20% at most.
OTL prior to the war the Ottomans were desperate for a meaningful alliance with a recognized power and even reached out to the Russians. If you want to pimp/ wank the British post war economy, a guarantee of existing Ottoman territory for British oil concessions would do the trick. Prima facie this is also likely to somewhat stunt the future influence of Wahhhabi islam.
Given the incompetence demonstrated by the Entente at the Dardanelles the initial success is far from certain and even if this is somehow a roaring success, it still leaves the Ottoman Anatolian homeland intact.In case Ottoman entry could not be avoided, I think a landing on Alexandretta,
That is some exceedingly vigorous hand waving you have going there...plus some diplomatic action to address conflicts between Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to get all of them to the Entente (although very hard, but if achieved then taking Gallipoli and Constantinople would only be a matter of weeks; and in OTL they nearly succeeded).